[Libosinfo] [v3 2/3] Adapt windows-unattend.xml for Windows 8

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Tue Feb 26 21:54:57 UTC 2013


On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
<zeeshanak at gnome.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
> <zeeshanak at gnome.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 04:50:02PM +0100, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
>>>> I played a bit with this, with a non-empty product key, adding the Win8
>>>> <ProductKey> bits while keeping or removing the Win7 <ProductKey> bits
>>>> break win7 unattended install in all cases.
>>>> Removing the /IMAGE/INDEX bits also break win7 unattended install.
>>>
>>> Actually I missed something during testing. The <ProductKey> node added for
>>> Win8 unattended installs seems to be mutually exclusive with the
>>> /IMAGE/INDEX bits from Win7 unattended installs (I got a vague hint toward
>>> that from http://technet.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/ff715526.aspx ).
>>> Using the <ProductKey> node from Win8 and removing the Win7 ProductKey node
>>> and the InstallFrom (/IMAGE/INDEX) Win7 node gives me a working unattended
>>> install. In short, using a Win8 autounattended.xml file with Win7 seems to
>>> be working fine (I've only tested with a mandatory product key).
>>
>> I just tried the attached patch against win7 professional and
>> unattended install gets broken. Attaching screenshot as well.
>
> Yikes I exceeded the byte limit of list. Putting screenshot on my
> server: http://static.fi/~zeenix/tmp/boxes+broken-win7.png

I tried both changes separately (see attachment) and they both break
unattended install of win7 professional in  Boxes.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124
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