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...it'll do an unattended installation of Windows...


On the other hand, if you go to http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/branch/default.mspx and download the Branch Office Infrastructure Solution ZIP file, it contains something called ADT, which is the Automated Deployment Toolkit. This is a bunch of VBScript and XML which allows you to do completely unattended installations of Windows and applications.

It has instructions for building a Windows PE boot CD, which is one step short of what you want to do to build a network-capable RAM disk. Fortunately, instructions for that are in the Windows OPK documentation.

It also has a bunch of scripts, suitable for running from Windows PE that set up your machine to do an unattended installation. If you do this, and let it complete, it will also SYSPREP the machine properly, so that you can capture the image and deploy it to your other machines.

If you don't want to do that, you can probably hack on the XML definitions so that it stops after the unattended installation. How to do this is beyond the scope of this discussion.

This is also probably complete overkill for what you're trying to do, but it is very cool.
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