Many issues on Install

[Dogway]

I dont know what I did wrong. I'm on XP but the only "strange" thing I did was set the profiles directory to D: partition, and also autologon to Administrator account. When I set this on Win Toolit it asked me for a password so I didn't bother and entered 1234.

 

Well, on 7 install I shift+F10 to enter diskpart and make both partitions then install 7, later it asks me for a user name and password (?) and then I get several errors.

 

 

"-This install package can't be opened. Check the package exists or access is granted, or contact with manufacturer to know if it's  a valid Windows Installer."

 

"-INF install error. Cause: System cannot find specified path."

 

"-Desktop makes reference to a path not available. This could make reference to a HDD on this system or a network. Check disk is correctly plugged or internet connection is available and try again. If still that doesn't solve it, the information could have moved to another place."

 

The above also happens when I enter %appdata% on address bar.

 

 

the strange thing is that Profile folders are also installed on C:.

 

And this my unattend.xml on the Panther folder (the autounattend.xml file here and settings file here):

Edited December 2, 2013 by Dogway

[Legolash2o]

I think it may have been the set profiles part of the unattended. I'm not the best when it comes to Autounattend.xml so try the install without it.

[Dogway]

Thank you Legolash2o. I didn't notice you reply. I suspect 2 things, one either I didn't give D: partition enough room (I have wrongly given small space to it), or there's something wrong with install language. I'm redoing the process and halted here so I don't mess again.

 

 

Shouldn't that be "Usuarios" and "Archivos de Programa (x86)".

 

Thank you!

[Dogway]

Ok, I think I spotted the issue now that I gave 7 a large install space, it doesn't show the first 2 error screens, but the rest is the same.

 

WinToolkit expects English folders, it expects "Desktop" when it should be "Escritorio", the same with users profile, Windows looks for Usuarios in D: but WinTookit only created Users, so instead Windows decides to create a default Profile Folder on C. called Usuarios. Maybe that's the main reason I'm prompted with a "create User Name" dialog when the whole process should be fully unattended, I'm automatically logged onto administrator, but 7 wants a guest account, and the prompted "user" account to sum 3 accounts in total...

 

 

Any workaround to this? or should I use another slipstreamer?

Edited December 4, 2013 by Dogway

[Dogway]

I don't know which of them fixed it, but I did both at the same time. First instead of "D:" I wrote "D:\Usuarios"

<ProfilesDirectory>D:\Usuarios</ProfilesDirectory><ProgramData>D:\ProgramData</ProgramData>

Then I added my language, for the "Desktop" issue:

    <settings pass="windowsPE">        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">            <SetupUILanguage>                <UILanguage>es-ES</UILanguage>            </SetupUILanguage>            <InputLocale>040a:0000040a</InputLocale>            <SystemLocale>es-ES</SystemLocale>            <UILanguage>es-ES</UILanguage>            <UserLocale>es-ES</UserLocale>              </component>        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">            <SetupUILanguage>                <UILanguage>es-ES</UILanguage>            </SetupUILanguage>            <InputLocale>040a:0000040a</InputLocale>            <SystemLocale>es-ES</SystemLocale>            <UILanguage>es-ES</UILanguage>            <UserLocale>es-ES</UserLocale>                   </component>

Now everything is almost perfect, only a few minor issues remain. Like applying theme automatically, or skip/unattend the creation of the User account which still prompts in the middle of install. I would also like to leave passwords blank, for both Administrator and User, in case a User account is mandatory.

 

There's also some folders spread on D:, they are the public folders that should be inside Usuarios, so I don't know really what is happening.

Edited December 5, 2013 by Dogway