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For what it's worth, I'm using Dell OEM media (WinXP Pro SP3) with my scripted XP installs and they work fine - I just have to enter the license (CD key) from the OEM sticker on the machine when the XP install begins.

John - jverbosk 12 years ago

John,
You are the first person to have reported success with this in my 3 years with KACE. Is this a Dell OEM CD, or different brand? Now I know that Windows 7 will work, but have never had XP work. Again, even with success, keep in mind the EULA.

Corey
Lead L3 Enterprise Solutions Engineer, K2000
If my response was helpful, please rate it! - cserrins 12 years ago

Corey,

Understood, but I don't give up easily and tend to make my own luck with these things. I do recall trying many, many different things until it worked and from there just kept duplicating my existing working scripted install to create the others.

Here's the details from the top of the blue-green (teal?) OEM CD in case it may help:

OPERATING SYSTEM
ALREADY INSTALLED ON YOUR COMPUTER
Reinstallation CD
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional
Service Pack 3

These CDs came with OEM machines that we ordered. I followed the typical KACE instructions for getting one onto the K2000 for source media (and I do remember trying several CDs).

As for the EULA, I have researched this several times and OEM media is *not* to be used with *images* (i.e. can't sysprep, etc). Scripted installs are exactly the same as manual installs (which is what I did prior to the K2000...) and I enter the OEM XP key from the label on the machine during the scripted install process. So this is simply automation (with a few inconvenient pauses - but still much faster than doing *everything* manually).

Again, I ran into issues with this initially (the install hanging at different points, etc), but I just kept trying different things until it worked. As for exactly *what* got it working I can't exactly say, but it is working with the OEM media I uploaded.

Again, in case this helps:

Source Media Detail

Name: WinXP SP3 OEM
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP
Total Discs: 1
Total Size: 600.8 MB
Created: Thu Dec 1 11:01:00 2011
Modified: Mon Mar 12 22:30:03 2012
Version: 3

Install Disk 1 of 1
Created: Thu Dec 1 11:12:27 2011
Modified: Mon Mar 12 22:30:04 2012
Status: Completed
Size: 600.8 MB
MD5 Checksum: 24fb92fa619bdbcbe01b908a0ea3c858
SHA-1 Checksum: b29bd52d40fbd700908946ef89b055d87896771e

And here is some of the info from one of my scripted installs using this CD:

Scripted Installation Detail

Name: Latitude D520 - XP-O2K3-IE8-WMP11-AS6
Type: Wizard
Source Media: WinXP SP3 OEM (Microsoft Windows XP)
Created: Mon Jan 30 14:13:25 2012
Modified: Fri Oct 26 14:21:36 2012
Version: 71
Status: Completed

Setup Configuration:

[Data]
AutoPartition = "1"
Floppyless = "1"
LocalSourceOnCD = "1"
MSDOSInitiated = "0"
OriSrc = "\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%\%INSTALLARCH%"
OriTyp = "4"
UnattendedInstall = "Yes"

[GuiUnattended]
AdminPassword = "private"
AutoLogon = "Yes"
AutoLogonCount = "10"
OEMSkipRegional = "1"
OEMSkipWelcome = "1"
TimeZone = "035"

[Identification]
JoinWorkgroup = "WORKGROUP"

[Networking]

[RegionalSettings]
InputLocale = "0409:00000409"
Language = "0409"
SystemLocale = "0409"
SystemLocale_DefaultUser = "0409"
UserLocale = "0409"
UserLocale_DefaultUser = "0409"

[SetupData]
OSLoadOptions = "/noguiboot /fastdetect"
SetupSourceDevice = "\Device\LanmanRedirector\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%"

[Unattended]
DriverSigningPolicy = "Ignore"
DUDisable = "Yes"
OemPreinstall = "Yes"
OemSkipEula = "Yes"
UnattendMode = "FullUnattended"
UnattendSwitch = "Yes"

[UserData]
ComputerName = "*"
FullName = "Valued Company Employee"
OrgName = "Company, Inc."


Hope that helps!

John - jverbosk 12 years ago

Also for what it's worth, I was able to get things working *much* faster with the Win7 OEM media. ^_^

John - jverbosk 12 years ago

Yes, the win7 oem media is not giving is any trouble.
Thanks for the input, but we are still having trouble. - kireberik 12 years ago

I too have both Dell XP sp3 OEM and Dell 7 OEM working with scripted deployments. Never had an issue. - ohiosoundguy 12 years ago

I'm working with one of the K2000 engineers to determine which files are making this work/fail. Hopefully there will be a working solution soon.

John - jverbosk 12 years ago

No, but I did install xp on this very same machine using the same cd from which i extracted the source for k2000 - kireberik 12 years ago

I just tried to deploy on a different machine and it was the same result - kireberik 12 years ago

Maybe a bad capture of the source media? Try to upload it again and see if you still get the error. - nheyne 12 years ago

uploaded two different times from two different media sources,.
I came across this article http://www.kace.com/support/resources/kb/article/Missing-propterty-dll-file-prompt
But im not exactly sure what "m" and "all" folders its referring to, because I went to on the K2000 share and all that is there are driverfeeds and restore folders. - kireberik 12 years ago

yes, we do - kireberik 12 years ago