custom windows installation cd

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Hi there

I documented a method a while ago for doing this.

www.willowhayes.co.uk/windows2000/custom.doc

This is for Windows 2000, but the methods are the same for Windows XP. Take
a look at http://bink.nu/xpbootcd for XP documentation (not including apps).

For the application part of the installation, I would recommend you look at
the following resources:

http://www.appdeploy.com/ (which has a good list of applications and how to
script them)
http://www.msfn.org/ (some great stuff being discussed here)
http://unattended.sourceforge.net (take a look at the application
installation scripting here)

I hinted at a method using GUIRunOnceEx in my documentation. I would warn
against using this. It looks nice, but it has some limitations. In
particular, if you deploy Office 2003 using a group policy, it seems to
interrupt the processing of GUIRunOnce.

Hope this helps

Oli


"Dan H" <Dan H@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9AE206E9-3717-44D6-887D-9781B146BB65@microsoft.com...
> Hi
>
> I am looking for information on how to create a windows installation CD
> which would install a full up to date version of windows along with
> various
> other programs needed, e.g office, antivirus etc. I have found information
> on
> adding service packs/updates but not additional software. disk images are
> no
> good, as it is for disaster recovery of machines with different
> motherboards
> etc. and remote installation is no good due to the computers being in a
> different location to our server.
>
> If anyone could point me to any information on how to do this (if its
> possible!) it would be most appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Dan
>