GoldenWonder Posted February 26, 2010 Posted February 26, 2010 I'm trying to use our WDS (Server 2003) to deploy W7 images. I've got a sysprep'd W7 image and also the default image (from the DVD) I can boot the client PC and install either of these. However, when I create unattend files (for the WDS and Image part) and assign them using the WDS console, the client ignores them. The PXE boot goes as normal, then stops at the language selection dialogue - and I specify this in the WDS unattend.xml. Anyone know why its ignoring the unattend files? I've only used the WDS console to attach them and used System Image Manager to create them.
DMcCoy Posted February 26, 2010 Posted February 26, 2010 If you choose en-GB for the PE language then it will stop as it is not available. It works with en-US. Shift+F10 will get you into the command prompt. You can then run notepad and find the error log. The downside to this is any printers that have drivers are detected when still as en-US and get installed as Letter
GoldenWonder Posted February 26, 2010 Author Posted February 26, 2010 Do you mean the SetupUILanguage setting? I have got this setup to en-GB, but it was originally en-US. Either way prompted the locale dialogue box on boot.
DMcCoy Posted February 26, 2010 Posted February 26, 2010 Do you mean the SetupUILanguage setting? I have got this setup to en-GB, but it was originally en-US. Either way prompted the locale dialogue box on boot. Yes, en-GB is not a valid option with the default language packs included in a windows 7 based PE. It will work fine as an unattended file for the image itself, but not for automating the WDS stage.
DMcCoy Posted February 26, 2010 Posted February 26, 2010 This is for a Vista image, but we use Win 7 from the WDS stage so it should be the same. Automatically wipes the disk, so be careful if you don't want that OnError 1 Primary true true NTFS SYSTEM C 1 1 0 true domain.school password user Student.WIM Student Student 0 1 Never en-US Never en-US 1
GoldenWonder Posted February 26, 2010 Author Posted February 26, 2010 Cheers - I'll give that a try. It looks very similar to ours except for the language settings.
GoldenWonder Posted March 1, 2010 Author Posted March 1, 2010 Modified my unattend file to change the locale settings and it worked! Thanks for that - would never have guessed that one!
Gatt Posted March 1, 2010 Posted March 1, 2010 This is my unattend.xml (for the server not the images thereafter!) 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[color=#0000ff][/color][color=#990000]unattend[/color][color=#0000ff]>[/color]
GoldenWonder Posted March 1, 2010 Author Posted March 1, 2010 Thats odd, as that is what my original file looked like. Until I changed the locale to en-us it failed to work?
DMcCoy Posted March 4, 2010 Posted March 4, 2010 Done some more testing, this should be sufficient to make sure printers etc get installed as A4. The unattended file after install is ok with the en-GB settings, it's just WDSClient that doesn't support en-GB for display. My relevant lines now look like en-US Never en-US en-GB en-GB
Reaper Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 Rather than start a new thread I'll just add to this one. I'm facing a similar problem to the OP, a month ago my WDS deployment worked without any problems, including multicasting but last week when I uploaded an updated image WDS began ignoring the answer file. The WinPE section works fine but as soon as it gets to the image OOBE part of the process I'm presented with language options and request for a username. If I fill these in, WDS then names the computer (something i've told it not to do) based on the domain admin account we use and joins it to the domain. If I don't roll the image out with WDS and instead use command line WinPE then this problem is avoided. I mounted the image with imagex and checked the unattend file under C:\Windows\Panther and it was the correct one, if I check it after the image has been applied it is one that WDS has chucked out with the computer name etc that I haven't told it to use. I spent some time before the weekend fiddling with the answer files to try and get automatic image selection and I'm not sure if it's related as I can't remember if I did a successful WDS test last week or not. I know it work perfectly at the end of May. The WinPE answer file has the language set to en-US and the image answer file is set to en-GB. I'm now two days behind my deployment schedule for the summer and this is driving me nuts, so any help is very much appreciated!
Gatt Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 Can you post your Answer file so we can have a quick look at it?
Reaper Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 WinPE WDS Unattend: OnError User domain.local Password OnError October-Curriculum-Image Curriculum XP945Curric-GCNL-Oct.wim 0 1 OnError 1 Primary true true false NTFS Local Disk C 1 1 0 true OnError en-US en-US Image OOBE Unattend: 1 true true GMT Standard Time false School false http://intranet false false false en-gb en-gb en-gb en-gb password false true 1 administrator cscript //b c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /ipk key 2 false cscript //b c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /ato 3 false C:\Windows\System32\SysPrep\JoinDomain\JoinDom.bat 1 true Home 3 password false IT Department itdepartment Administrators itdepartment School IT Department
Gatt Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 You have this at the end of your WDS Unattend: OnError en-US [color=black]en-US[/color] try changing it to this.. en-US en-gb en-gb en-gb en-gb en-gb ] Also, I have it right at the start of the file... (attached) Unattend.rar
Reaper Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 Thanks for the reply, I've seen a couple with it at the start and at the end. The odd (and annoying) thing is, is that it worked fine up until recently. I'll give your way a shot and get back to you. Quick thought, I thought that the language options for the WDS unattend all had to be en-US?
Gatt Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 Only for the SetupUI part - the rest can be in en-GB tho, I have all mine set to en-GB and it doesnt appear to cause an issue.....
Reaper Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 What did make a difference was directly attaching the answer file to the image in WDS. I know this is on various sets of instructions but previous I haven't done this and the image has used the Answer file that I have sysprepped it with and stored in the System32\Sysprep folder. So this now seems to be fixed, not entirely what I managed to do last week that stopped it working how it has done for the last few months but I'm glad that it is working! Thanks for your help guys, always appreciated. Now hopefully off to image 40 machines via Multicast
Reaper Posted July 15, 2010 Posted July 15, 2010 Just a quick update, it happened again this morning! But! It seems if I add a new image to the WDS server and then link an Answer file to it I have to restart the WDS service before deploying it. After that it seems to be Ok.
SCSI Posted July 17, 2010 Posted July 17, 2010 (edited) Just a quick update, it happened again this morning! But! It seems if I add a new image to the WDS server and then link an Answer file to it I have to restart the WDS service before deploying it. After that it seems to be Ok. Thanks for the tip. Maybe someone here can help me with my WDS Unattend problem. My problem with the WDS Unattend that I created is that it only creates one partition. How can I configure WDS Unattend to create the 100MB System reserve partition and and 2nd partition for Windows? Right now, the partitioning is done manually by me. Also when imaging using WDS, is it possible to image both partitions at once? Edited July 17, 2010 by SCSI
Reaper Posted July 19, 2010 Posted July 19, 2010 I think my WDS unattend has the setup to do the partitioning but I'm not convinced it actually does it. Though this hasn't affected the machines I've installed the image to.
cromertech Posted July 19, 2010 Posted July 19, 2010 The section in my Unattend file that deals with disk partitioning looks like this. I used Windows System Image Manager to author the file and it has been working reliably since I first used it 1 100 Primary true 2 Primary true NTFS System 1 1 NTFS Windows 2 2 0 true OnError edit this works for one hard drive. You need to fiddle with the DiskID value if you don't want it installed on the first drive
gerardsweeney Posted February 12, 2011 Posted February 12, 2011 Modified my unattend file to change the locale settings and it worked! Thanks for that - would never have guessed that one! I'm in a similar situation, so I'll definitely be giving this a bash on Monday since I'm sure I changed the language settings. What I don't get is this - WAIK weighs in at a fairly beefy 1.5-odd Gb. Why, then, in the name of all that is holy do we have to manually TYPE in the language and timezones? It - surely - couldn't be beyond the reaches of MS to make them listboxes? And if it is changing the language which borks the unattanded, why make it an option?? Grr... Thanks very much for the unattended.xml files which have been posted - hopefully they'll give me something to play with on Monday (fnar! Ed). Regards, Gerard
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