Performing an unattended installation of Windows® XP 33
Performing an unattended installation of
Windows® XP
Unattended installations
This chapter provides an overview of the steps to perform an unattended installation of Windows® XP.
This chapter describes the essential elements that are specific to workstation blades.
Unattended installation procedure
This section describes the steps to perform an unattended installation of Windows® XP and Windows®
XP-64.
1. Create and update the remote install distribution share.
2. In the distribution share, create a directory structure to store the OS installation files as well as the
HP-specific drivers and software for the workstation blade.
a. Windows® XP Pro SP2—The $OEM$ folder is created under the i386 directory, which was
originally created manually or via Remote Installation Service.
b. Windows® XP Pro x64—The AMD64 and i386 subdirectories contain the OS files, and the
$OEM$ folder needs to be on the same level as amd64 and i386
3. Download the software and drivers required for unattended installation
a. Uncompress the SoftPaq, and copy the folder and contents of the conrep and unsignok folders to
the $OEM$\$1\HP_Install directory.
b. Download the latest drivers and software for the workstation blade.
c. Copy RGS and additional utilities in various distribution sub-folders.
4. Create regedit command files in the $OEM$\$1\HP_Install directory to change registry settings
for RGS to work properly.
The following registry modifications are given as examples only. Editing the registry can cause
serious issues with Windows®. Although these examples have been shown to work, use these
examples at your own risk.
a. Turn off Fast User Switching—In this example, Fast User Switching is turned off by a script file
called "FastUserSwitching.reg", which contains the following lines:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"AllowMultipleTSSessions"=dword:00000000
"LogonType"=dword:00000000
Where:
LogonType—Set to 0 to display the security dialog box, set to 1 to display the new Welcome
screen.
