For a completely unattended installation, you must specify user settings in either the answer file or the UDF.
If the user's full name, the organization name, the computer name, and a product ID for the copy of Windows NT Workstation are not provided to the Setup program, the user will be prompted for them. This information can be included in an answer file, but it is generally more effective to provide it in a UDF. Indeed, the UDF functionality is designed to allow you specify a variant of the basic configuration for each user, rather than create separate answer files, one for each user, with most of the information copied in each answer file.
The section and keys are the same, whether you specify the data in an answer file or UDF. In the [UserData] section, add the following lines:
FullName = "User's full name" OrgName = "Organization name" ComputerName = computername ProductId = "123-456789012345"
The ProductId key specifies the Microsoft product identification number. This must be an authentic number that will be requested by Microsoft Product Support Services if you call for technical support. Note that you must include the hyphen in the product identification number. Note also that for the FullName, OrgName, and ProductId keys, the value must be enclosed in quotation marks.
If no time zone is specified, the user will be prompted to select one. To specify a time zone, add the following line to the [GuiUnattended] section:
TimeZone = "time_zone"
Where time_zone is one of the following:
(GMT) Greenwich Mean Time; Dublin, Edinburgh, London
(GMT+01:00) Lisbon, Warsaw
(GMT+01:00) Paris, Madrid
(GMT+01:00) Berlin, Stockholm, Rome, Bern, Brussels, Vienna
(GMT+02:00) Eastern Europe
(GMT+01:00) Prague
(GMT+02:00) Athens, Helsinki, Istanbul
(GMT-03:00) Rio de Janeiro
(GMT-04:00) Atlantic Time (Canada)
(GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
(GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
(GMT-07:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)
(GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada); Tijuana
(GMT-09:00) Alaska
(GMT-10:00) Hawaii
(GMT-11:00) Midway Island, Samoa
(GMT+12:00) Wellington
(GMT+10:00) Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney
(GMT+09:30) Adelaide
(GMT+09:00) Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo, Seoul, Yakutsk
(GMT+08:00) Hong Kong SAR, PRC, Perth, Singapore, Taipei
(GMT+07:00) Bangkok, Jakarta, Hanoi
(GMT+05:30) Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, New Delhi, Colombo
(GMT+04:00) Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Tbilisi, Kazan, Volgograd
(GMT+03:30) Tehran
(GMT+03:00) Baghdad, Kuwait, Nairobi, Riyadh
(GMT+02:00) Israel
(GMT-03:30) Newfoundland
(GMT-01:00) Azores, Cape Verde Is.
(GMT-02:00) Mid-Atlantic
(GMT) Monrovia, Casablanca
(GMT-03:00) Buenos Aires, Georgetown
(GMT-04:00) Caracas, La Paz
(GMT-05:00) Indiana (East)
(GMT-05:00) Bogota, Lima
(GMT-06:00) Saskatchewan
(GMT-06:00) Mexico City, Tegucigalpa
(GMT-07:00) Arizona
(GMT-12:00) Enewetak, Kwajalein
(GMT+12:00) Fiji, Kamchatka, Marshall Is.
(GMT+11:00) Magadan, Soloman Is., New Caledonia
(GMT+10:00) Hobart
(GMT+10:00) Guam, Port Moresby, Vladivostok
(GMT+09:30) Darwin
(GMT+08:00) Beijing, Chongqing, Urumqi
(GMT+06:00) Alma Ata, Dhaka
(GMT+05:00) Islamabad, Karachi, Sverdlovsk, Tashkent
(GMT+04:30) Kabul
(GMT+02:00) Cairo
(GMT+02:00) Harare, Pretoria
(GMT+03:00) Moscow, St. Petersburg
For example:
TimeZone = "(GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada); Tijuana"
The computer can be part of either a workgroup or a domain. If the computer is a server, a third option, domain controller, is available. The key for establishing the computer as a domain controller is described under "Windows NT Server Settings," later in this appendix.
To join a workgroup, the following key must be specified under the [Network] section:
JoinWorkgroup = workgroup_name
The workgroup_name value specifies the workgroup the computer will participate in.
To join an existing domain, specify the following under the [Network] section:
JoinDomain = domain_name
The domain_name value specifies the domain to join.
In the lab, you might also want to define user credentials (for example, Administrator) and password required to create a computer account on the domain specified. In this case you would add the following under the [Network] section:
JoinDomain = domain_name CreateComputerAccount = [user_name_with_creation_rights
[, user_password]
The CreateComputerAccount key supplies the credentials and password to create the computer account. The user account specified in the CreateComputerAccount key must already exist in the specified domain.
The [Network] section must contain one of the keys JoinWorkgroup, JoinDomain, or InstallDC. The InstallDC key applies only to Windows NT Server, and is described under "Installing a Domain Controller."