Windows Setup v1 - Install Many Windows directly from ISO file

Interesting. I would love your au3 files

I have a similar approach, i make a WinPE with Winbuilder and have the ramdrive as X and my $oem$ folder (with daz loader and branding, etc) in x\windows\system32\$oem$ with my various autounattends in $oem$. I have desktop shortcuts that are made when the PE boots that do this (sometimes the code explains it all... )
FileCreateShortcut("x:\sources\setup.exe",@DesktopDir &"\Win7 (Admin NO Autologon NO pass).lnk", $CDDRIVE2 & "\", "/unattend:" & "X:\Windows\system32\$OEM$\Autounattend_ADMIN.xml", "Install Win 7 with Admin account as User and NO autologon with no pass", "", "", 0, @SW_SHOWNORMAL)
As long is there is a "sources" dir with install.wim, boot.wim, and setup.exe on any root of media it will find the image and use the files imbedded in my WinPE. The WinPE ramdisk sources dir has all the needed installation files. The ramdisk is also writeable so you can tweak an autounattend on the fly, even burnt to DVD. As it installs, i have a script that looks for WinPEpge.sys and then copies the $oem$ folder to systemdrive\$Windows.~LS\Sources\$OEM$ and uses it as normal. Its very nice to have a less than 300 meg boot.wim (can boot off a small USB) that has everything you need to install a custom windows from any install.wim (vanilla ?), minus drivers and updates. This only works with some custom au3s i made, but the approach is what matters.

Your approach is also great and im going to tinker with it all afternoon in VM. I merely share my approach to show things i found experimenting, as i know you have spent alot of time doing the same. I in no way want to hijack your thread and your wonderful release.

 

thanks a lot, i was looking 4 something like this from long time ago , see
msfn.org/board/topic/147083-multiple-unattended-windows-7/page__p__942998#entry942998

i knew how to do this in xp but didn't know how to do this in win 7 until i found ur post , i will try ur method soon

 

64 bit does not work

My usb stick boots correctly into Win7 32bit but trying to do 64bit just gives me a command window with this message:
"A winpeshl.ini file is present, but no commands were successfully launched. This could be caused by incorrect formatting or an invalid executable name. Please consult the documentation for more information.
X:\windows\system32>".
Any suggestions? Thanks.

 

I had the same issue and found the problem. The batch file that configures the setup for x64 is incorrectly changing the setup file name when copying it into the iso temp folder.


To fix:

Edit the file "WindowsSetup_x64.cmd"

Find the following line: "COPY /Y %~dp0\x64\WindowsSetup_x64.exe %TEMP%\MOUNT\Windows\system32\WindowsSetup_x86.exe"

Edit the line toward the end where it says "WindowsSetup_x86.exe" to read "WindowsSetup_x64.exe"

Save the file and rerun it to rebuild the correct iso.

Hope this helps.

 

Thank you. That solved the problem.

 

Does anybody know if sushil1576 is still going to make improvements? He has not posted on this subject during the months of September, October, November, and December.

 

Unfortunately this is not working for me. I am using a hard drive(usb). After formating partition c:\ I am getting an error"setup is unable to locate partition...".
But thx for the input. I am using the method from rebootpro. To include $oem$ via your file(exe) was very nice.

 

@sushil1576
It would be very kind if you could share your knowledge about how to integrate $oem$ folder on other locations. How did you do that?

thx