OS installation process
The installation process of Windows is controlled by a file called unattend.txt.
Relevant settings for Windows Setup
Here are examples for how to configure some common settings. All of these are used by Windows Setup, which means they are fully explained in Microsoft's documentation. These examples are just to help you get started quickly.
Dynamic configuration with server-side perl scripts
If the static configuration options provided by unattend.txt are
not sufficient, you can create arbitrarily complex rules using
Z:\site\config.pl. This is a Perl file which install.pl reads.
- Dynamic configuration with server-side perl scripts
- The [_meta] section
- How the installation script works
- Using a database
How to script the installation of various applications
The goal of this document is to collect instructions for performing unattended / silent installations of many popular installers.