Re: TXTSETUP.OEM and CD-ROM?
From: Gerry Hickman (gerry666uk_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 03/09/04
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Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 20:58:18 +0000
Hi Patrick,
> In short, I know of nobody who has gotten TXTSETUP.OEM working from
> CD-ROM.
Your're right, it looks like TXTSETUP.SIF is the way to go. I can only
praise the person at Microsoft who (back in the days of NT) decided to
use a pure text file for setup paramaters.
> Wouldn't you rather install from the network anyway :-) ?
I'm open to debate... Obviously I use the network for client roll-outs,
but for servers I'm not so sure. Here's a few reasons:
1. The server you're trying to re-build is the one that's got the
distribution point on it... err _had_ the distribution point on it
before it blew up.
2. Some kind of disaster has occurred and your ethernet switch is hosed,
you don't have a network, but you need to start building the server so
it's ready on Monday as soon as you plug in the new Ethernet swtich
that's on it's way by courier. *Or* it's a week-end and the network guys
have decided to do maintenance all week-end, sorry no network today.
3. You have massive RAID sets a 3rd party controller and with NTFS
partitions. Your O/S is trashed by a virus. The O/S backup is no good.
You want to re-install the O/S to unpartitioned space, but don't want to
trash all the other data partitions. With CD-ROM you just boot up and
choose "Create new partition", format to NTFS and off you go... with the
network, how can you do this?
-- Gerry Hickman (London UK)
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