Sysprep x64

[caffrey]

I currently have a working fine 32bit image on wds - no problems works great.

So anyway thought it would be trivial to create a 64bit image - but no, my unattend.xml gets ignored.

I created one using waik on a 64bit machine which didn't work and I also tried using the working 32bit xml and replaced the processor architecture with amd64 instead of x86 - still no go.

Its a simple unattend - just sets region etc, no errors are reported when sysprep is ran - also my batch file in the setup directory doesn't run either (deletes the xml file after installation)

 

any clues ?

 

 

   
       
           
               en-US
           
           0809:00000809
           en-GB
           en-US
           en-GB
       
       
           
               true
               
               orgname
               
                   ourproductkeyhere
                   Never
               
           
       
   
   
       
           
               true
               Work
               3
               true
               true
           
           GMT Standard Time
           
               
                   nothereforobviousreasons
                   false
               
           
       
       
           0809:00000809
           en-GB
           en-GB
           en-GB
       
   
   
       
           *
           false
           
           
           
               32
               1024
               60
               768
           
           false
           true
       
   
   

[caffrey]

nm, fixed it

[FN-GM]

How did you fix it please?

[Jollity]

Yes do bear in mind, caffrey, that posting "nm, fixed it" means that one day some poor techy is going to have the same problem, find your post and curse you to your own personal circle of hell for not actually posting how you did it!

[caffrey]

Heh sorry, i'm usually rushing around.

 

Was my mistake, I must've used the wrong unnattend.xml - had a lot going on lately.

 

My initial assumptions were correct.

 

Basically if you want a 64 bit version of your 32bit version - Instead of going through the nightmare that is WAIK.

 

Just take a copy of your 32bit xml and replace all instances of processorArchitecture="x86" and replace with processorArchitecture="amd64"

 

Works great - still can't get copy profile to work but defprof works fine for me

 

Wish microsoft would make the oobe process easier...

[EmperorPeng]

I just did exactly that, then scrolled down and saw your reply and the eventual solution...thanks to Jollity for poking caffrey, and to caffrey for the solution