On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 04:20:35PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: >> From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> The presence of 'InstallFrom' in the XML breaks unattended installation >> for Windows 8 >> and its not needed for Windows 7 now that we require >> product key. 'ProductKey' is expected in different locations in the XML >> by Windows 8 but same location works for Windows 7 as well. > > All of this is not really accurate. Win8 seems to require > Microsoft-Windows-Setup/UserData/ProductKey/Key to be set, which seems to > be exclusive with using > Microsoft-Windows-Setup/ImageInstall/OSImage/InstallFrom/MetaData (or at > least some care needs to be taken when using both together). As letting the > Windows installer decide on which OSImage to use from the product key > rather than hardcoding use of the first OSImage on the ISO seems more > robust, we switch from InstallFrom installation image selection to > ProductKey installation image selection. > > Also, ProductKey is not expected in a different location for Windows 8, but > there are 2 different locations where you can put it with different > purposes, I clearly recall that I spent many hours to figure this one out. Windows 8 unattend install certainly breaks if you don't move the product key in the XML. You might be right that log is not 100% accurate about this but its pretty damn close. > the one at Microsoft-Windows-Setup/UserData/ProductKey/Key is > used for installation image selection (ie as a /IMAGE/INDEX replacement). > The ProductKey that was set for Win7 is used for Windows activation (which > you have to do within 30 days of installation), so we should set it as well > in all cases if this does not break win8 unattended (I don't think I've > tested that). I give up. Could you please modify these patches and/or their commit logs? As long as they enable windows 8 unattended installation without breaking it for windows 7, I'll be happy. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 _______________________________________________ Libosinfo mailing list Libosinfo@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libosinfo
