autounattend.xml & sysprep

[Guest John G. Heim]

I'm blind and I'm trying to create an autounattend.xml file for a thumb drive that pretty much gets me all the way through the install. I'd rather not create a new disk image because I want to put partitioning info in the autounattend.xml and change it from time to time.

I've got an autounattend.xml file that gets me most of the way. But I think it stops in the audit system pass and brings up a sysprep dialog box. I cannot really be sure what pass its in but after a couple of reboots, it brings up a dialog box that says its running sysprep. The dialog box has a checkbox for generalize and a dropdown list for rebooting. I would like it to automatically skip that dialog box and just reboot.

 

The step-by-step guide says to add a reseal item to the oobe system pass. I tried adding another reseal item to the audit system pass but then I seemed to lose the drivers for my hardware especially for the sound card -- which, since I'm blind, meant I couldn't finish the install by starting narrator.

Is there a way to add something to my autounattend.xml to get past that dialog box?

 

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