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Let’s get started
Put in your Windows XP CD. If you have autorun enabled it should pop up the “Welcome to Microsoft Windows XP”. In this window you should see a set of options. Here you want to select “Perform additional tasks”.
If you have autorun disabled, you can simply open “My Computer”. Then you will need to right click on the drive you have your Windows XP CD in and in the drop down menu click on “Explore”. This will allow you to view the contents of the CD.
In the next set of options you want select “Browse this CD”.
You should now see the contents of the CD. Now open the “Support” folder and then the “Tools” folder. The file we are looking for is a compressed file called “DEPLOY.CAB”. Before you go any further make a new folder on your desktop and extract the contents of this CAB file to that folder. You can name this folder whatever you like. Now open the folder that you just created. You should see a few different files here. The one we want is “setupmgr.exe”. For now just disregard all the other files except for the Windows XP Preinstallation Reference.(ref.chm) This is a help file that goes more into creating an answer file and explains more about the other files that are included in the folder that we just made. If you run into problems it might come in handy.
Welcome to the Windows Setup Manager - This Wizard is going to take us through the options of creating the answer file. Just click next here.
Create or Modify the Answer File - Since this is going to be your first answer file, select “Create a new answer file” and click next. Once you have created an answer file successfully, you can edit it with the Setup Manager by selecting “Modify an existing answer file” and providing a path to it.
Type of answer file to be used:
Windows Unattended Installation - Unattended installations use setup scripts to answer installation questions and to automate the Setup process. This simplifies the installation of the operating system.
Sysprep Install (System Preparation Tool) - Disk imaging, which is also known as cloning. This is a timesaving way to install Windows XP on multiple computers that use identical or similar hardware configurations.
Remote Installation Services (RIS) - Enables you to perform a clean installation of Windows XP Professional on multiple computers throughout a network. You can simultaneously deploy the operating system on multiple clients from one or more remote locations.
For now, we are going to choose the “Windows Unattended Installation” option.
Windows Platform - Which Version of Windows XP are you going to install? For me that would be “Windows XP Professional”.
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