Reply To: Unattended (silent) installation of 2024R2 & -productfile switch

[andygav]

 

 

Thanks for your response. I’ll try your suggestions.

If I abort the task sequence and then re-run it, it will run to almost completion. That is, the software is installed, the license server setup in the client, it all works. The task sequence itself doesn’t terminate however, so you don’t get that nice screen with 0 errors and 0 warnings.

Its as if it saves itself some resource by re-using the files that are already present from the aborted run. It is a large install after all (~64Gb).

Only thing I can find so far is the scratch space but this relates to WinPE. I had upped this to 128Mb just to see if it has an affect though the TS runs in the full o/s rather than in WinPE.

WinPE reserves memory on the X: drive to unpack the WinPE files, plus additional temporary file storage, known as scratch space, that can be used by your applications. By default, this is 512MB for PCs with more than 1GB of RAM, otherwise the default is 32MB. Valid values are 32, 64, 128, 256, or 512.

WinPE: Mount and Customize | Microsoft Learn

I had used the .iso’s and unpacked them into a single folder. I also used the automated installer to download a local copy (as it, usefully, has the service packs applied already).