ReactOS unattended.inf

[Mario Gzuk]

Hi,
I am the maintainer of uranos (http://uranos.sf.net) and want to 
implement the unattended setup of ReactOS into uranos. I read that you 
have implemented a answer file into ReactOS.
Because of uranos does all the parts which is done by the txtinstaller 
from ReactOS (partition disk, write mbr, copy files and so on) from a 
linux boot environment - I want to know if it is possible to place the 
unattended.inf into the filesystem so the ReactOS is read the file in 
the first GUI boot.

Thank you! Cheers mario

[Dmitry Gorbachev]

Mario Gzuk wrote:
> Because of uranos does all the parts which is done by the txtinstaller
> from ReactOS (partition disk, write mbr, copy files and so on)

Can it create registry hives?
> I want to know if it is possible to place the
> unattended.inf into the filesystem so the ReactOS is read the file in
> the first GUI boot.

See http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/dll/win32/syssetup/wizard.c?revision=53485&view=markup#l_2185.
ReactOS searches unattend.inf on installation CD on the first GUI
boot.

[Mario Gzuk]

Hi.

Am 30.08.2011 15:02, schrieb Dmitry Gorbachev:
> Mario Gzuk wrote:
> > Because of uranos does all the parts which is done by the txtinstaller
> > from ReactOS (partition disk, write mbr, copy files and so on)
>
> Can it create registry hives?

There is also the offline registry editor in the boot env 
(http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/ ) so it should be possible if it is 
needed. (is it?)
> > I want to know if it is possible to place the
> > unattended.inf into the filesystem so the ReactOS is read the file in
> > the first GUI boot.
>
> Seehttp://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/dll/win32/syssetup/wizard.c?revision=53485&view=markup#l_2185.
> ReactOS searches unattend.inf on installation CD on the first GUI
> boot.

But at this time there is no CD in the drive... In the M$ Windows 
(XP/2003) installation the installer is searching for the winnt.sif 
answer file (for the GUI mode) in $win_nt$.~bt on the hard drive. For 
automated installation it would be helpful to have a possibility to 
place the answer file directly into the InstallDIR (e.g. ReactOS\ or 
ReactOS\system32). What do you think?

Thank you for the fast answer.

Cheers

[Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo]

please, again, dont use "M$"

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Mario Gzuk [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Am 30.08.2011 15:02, schrieb Dmitry Gorbachev:
>
> Mario Gzuk wrote:
> > > Because of uranos does all the parts which is done by the txtinstaller
> > > from ReactOS (partition disk, write mbr, copy files and so on)
> >
> > Can it create registry hives?
>
> There is also the offline registry editor in the boot env (
> http://pogostick.net/~pnh/**ntpasswd/http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/) so it should be possible if it is needed. (is it?)
>
> I want to know if it is possible to place the
> > > unattended.inf into the filesystem so the ReactOS is read the file in
> > > the first GUI boot.
> >
> > See<http://svn.reactos.org/**svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/dll/**
> > win32/syssetup/wizard.c?**revision=53485&view=markup#l_**2185http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/dll/win32/syssetup/wizard.c?revision=53485&view=markup#l_2185
> > > .
> >
> > ReactOS searches unattend.inf on installation CD on the first GUI
> > boot.
>
> But at this time there is no CD in the drive... In the M$ Windows (XP/2003)
> installation the installer is searching for the winnt.sif answer file (for
> the GUI mode) in $win_nt$.~bt on the hard drive. For automated installation
> it would be helpful to have a possibility to place the answer file directly
> into the InstallDIR (e.g. ReactOS\ or ReactOS\system32). What do you think?
>
> Thank you for the fast answer.
>
> Cheers
>
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[Mario Gzuk]

I am using Linux. So you dont need to entreat ;)

Am 30.08.2011 15:44, schrieb Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo:
> please, again, dont use "M$"

[Dmitry Gorbachev]

> There is also the offline registry editor in the boot env
> (http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/ ) so it should be possible if it is
> needed. (is it?)

Yes. See usetup sources (base/setup/usetup).
> For
> automated installation it would be helpful to have a possibility to
> place the answer file directly into the InstallDIR (e.g. ReactOS\ or
> ReactOS\system32). What do you think?

Then you should modify the installer (syssetup).