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Setting up multiple machines
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08/09/2002 18:28:45
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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08/09/2002 14:24:27
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Windows
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Miscellaneous
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>If what you mean is to skip the prompts Windows setup has to go through during installation for each PC, Windows 98 has a "hidden" tool in the installation CD called Batch (or something like that) whose sole purpose is to gather the installation settings of your current Windows.
>
> This will result with an ini file you can pass as an argument to Windows' setup.exe,
> e.g. d:\win98\setup.exe c:\mywin98settings.ini
>since all install information is already supplied, setup will just breeze throught the entire setup process after just a few clicks. Of course this won't affect programs that doesn't come with Windows itself, but it's a start.

Thanks, but what really worries us is, precisely, all the "other" programs that have to be installed on each machine. I was thinking of an equivalent (?) of diskcopy.

Hilmar.
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