Re: [Unattended] 64-bit OSs

I recommend that you do some research on using the Microsoft Windows
Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) for better understanding of installing
Vista/Win7/Win2008 using WinPE.   After that, you will have a better
understanding of installing Win7 32-bit and 64-bit.




On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Allison Roth <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Whoops…think I might’ve sent the last reply to Gary only.  Anyway, to
> summarise – XP x64 isn’t being recognized by install.pl, since it doesn’t
> have the txtsetup.sif and other files that it looks for.  Gary asked me to
> detail the directory layout on the CD.  The root of the CD has AMD64, Docs,
> I386, and Support.  It does actually look like all three of the relevant
> files (txtsetup, prodspec and setupp) are in the AMD64 directory, now that I
> go through it more closely…
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> Allison Roth
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> *From:* Gary Greene [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 27, 2010 2:46 PM
> *To:* Allison Roth
> *Subject:* Re: [Unattended] 64-bit OSs
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> On 4/27/10 1:43 PM, "Allison Roth" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Well, the problem I’m seeing with XP x64 is that it’s just not recognizing
> the OS being in the directory at all.  From what I’ve found via searches,
> the script is looking for three files (txtsetup.sif and so on), and those
> files don’t seem to exist in the XP x64 disc…
>
>
> _______________
> Allison Roth
> IT Support
> Computer Modelling Group Ltd.
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> *From:* Gary Greene [mailto:[email protected]<[email protected]>]
>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 27, 2010 2:41 PM
> *To:* Allison Roth; [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [Unattended] 64-bit OSs
>
> Unfortunately, these are two different beasts...
>
> Windows Vista and above use an entirely re-written installer running on
> WinPE 2.x which is largely the problem that is being faced. From what I
> understand, WinPE 1.x was far more stripped back than WinPE 2.x which
> Vista/7 uses for the OS loader for the installer. The reason 64-bit likely
> isn’t working is you’d need a 64-bit build of the tools used for unattended
> (FreeDOS and friends). Unfortunately, far as I know, there *is* no build
> of those tools for 64-bit mode.
>
>
> Fun.... Sounds like they might have done early changes to the 64-bit
> version that are similar to the others.... Can you detail the directory
> layout on the CD? This will give some idea of what the environment is for
> this.
>
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Conrad Lawes

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