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Tony
March 26th 03, 08:57 PM
yup. Have done an 'attended' install & all works fine. Also tried it with
Win 2K Pro (SP1 slipstreamed) & all seemed to be fine. The XP Pro has SP1
slipstreamed, could it be this? Will try with an original XP CD.
Tony

"Doug Knox MS-MVP" > wrote in message
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> Have you tried it in "attended" mode? You may have a hardware problem
that
> is preventing install.
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> "Tony" <wyle 70 @hotmail.com> wrote in message
> ...
> > I have made an unattended install floppy using the wizard & when using
> this
> > to try to perform an unattended install XP just hangs.
> >
> > During setup the computer gets so far & then stops. It starts copying
> > files, does this for 3 or 4 minutes & then just stops. The hd light
stays
> > on, there is no activity from the CD drive. I have left it like this for
> 1/2
> > hour with no progress. Any ideas? I have created a second
'unattend.txt'
> > file & get the same problem. I have also manually created an
> 'unattend.txt'
> > file & still get the same problem. The computer is an AMD 1.4ghz, 256
> ram,
> > 40 gig hd, formatted into 1 partition FAT 32, XP Pro.
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > Tony
> >
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