XP unattended upgrade

[Glenn]

So now after a walk through of a manual XP upgrade I find
out that all questions can be answered before a reboot and
therefore can be scripted with, say, autoit??? Once the
initial answers are there, no more interaction is
required. It is an upgrade, same hostname, same domain
affiliation. OUTSTANDING

>-----Original Message-----
>I am having a heck of a time getting a true unattended
>upgrade. I'm using
winnt32.exe /unattend:c:\unattended.txt
>During testing, all aspects go through OK except for...
>
>I have two criteria that need to be met.
>
>I need to make this an upgrade, not a dual boot
scenario.
>So I need to install windows to the current %windir%
which
>in our environment is the norm c:\winnt. When I specify
>this in unattended.txt I get a prompt during installation
>that asks me if I really want to do this. How can I
force
>the issue. Any entry I use other that a new dir name or
>winnt ends in a fatal error.
>
>The last criteria are lumped together in the hostname.
>We have several thousand workstations that need to be
>upgraded. They all need to retain there hostnames and
>domain affiliation.
>I haven't been able to pass a value to "computername ="
to
>have it use the current host name. Even if I manually
put
>in the host name that I want for it, the workstation
needs
>to be rejoined to the domain. That wouldn't be suitable
>for so many targeted machines.
>
>How do I upgrade several thousand NT and w2k PC's to XP
>while not dual booting and keeping the same host name and
>domain affiliation?
>.
>

[prez21]

Hi Glen

I need your help on unattended upgrade to windows xp...
i'm having same problem like how you faced earlier...
Can you give me information on how to do it please...

my email add: ..







So now after a walk through of a manual XP upgrade I find
out that all questions can be answered before a reboot and
therefore can be scripted with, say, autoit??? Once the
initial answers are there, no more interaction is
required. It is an upgrade, same hostname, same domain
affiliation. OUTSTANDING

-----Original Message-----
I am having a heck of a time getting a true unattended
upgrade. I'm using
winnt32.exe /unattend:c:\unattended.txt
During testing, all aspects go through OK except for...

I have two criteria that need to be met.

I need to make this an upgrade, not a dual boot
scenario.
So I need to install windows to the current %windir%
which
in our environment is the norm c:\winnt. When I specify
this in unattended.txt I get a prompt during installation
that asks me if I really want to do this. How can I
force
the issue. Any entry I use other that a new dir name or
winnt ends in a fatal error.

The last criteria are lumped together in the hostname.
We have several thousand workstations that need to be
upgraded. They all need to retain there hostnames and
domain affiliation.
I haven't been able to pass a value to "computername ="
to
have it use the current host name. Even if I manually
put
in the host name that I want for it, the workstation
needs
to be rejoined to the domain. That wouldn't be suitable
for so many targeted machines.

How do I upgrade several thousand NT and w2k PC's to XP
while not dual booting and keeping the same host name and
domain affiliation?
.