While we're on the topic of unattended installs...has anyone successfully installed server 2003? I've tried a bunch of times, but no matter what I do I can't get any audio out of it...aparently the audio service is disabled/not started by default...anyone have a trick to getting it going? On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 01:10:43AM -0800, Tyler Spivey wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I thought I would chime in since I just finished unattended installs of > xp and vista about 6 times. With XP, there is a really handy guide at: > http://unattended.msfn.org > Which walks you through the entire process. For Vista, there is the > windows AIK (Automated installation kit), which is an enormous 900 meg+ > download that you must get and install in order to create one > comparitively small (5k or so) xml file that can be put on a flash disk > where vista's setup program can pick it up. One trick that I've learned, > and will share with anyone reading this thread, is that an OCR package > can recognize some of the text on a screenshot taken by VMware. I've > gotten the best results by running the image through "convert -resize > 1440", where convert is from the imagemagick package. This is useful if > you get stuck somewhere along the way, but YMMV. > If you need any help, feel free to email me offlist and I'll see what I > can do. > - - Tyler > > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:05:49AM -0700, Don Raikes wrote: > > Cheryl, > > > > I would be interested in knowing how you got xp installed into a virtual machine. > > I am running windows xp pro, and have vmware server installed, but need a copy of windows 2007 and vista for testing purposes, but have not been successful in getting them installed into virtual machines without requiring sighted help. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkewERMACgkQTsjaYASMWKSXvwCgmpN/+0uaGAZbn3trJzNncLhi > CmsAoJtPT7uq47VbqSR6aKNfMQ25baSE > =ZbFo > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- We use Linux for all our mission-critical applications. Having the source code means that we are not held hostage by anyone's support department. -- Russell Nelson, President of Crynwr Software
