Error Message: The Specified Setup Script File Is Inaccessible or Invalid During Unattended Installation (247882)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
This article was previously published under Q247882 SYMPTOMSWhen you run an unattended installation of Windows 2000, you
may receive the following error message: The specified
Setup script file
(Path_or_Drive_Letter\unattend.txt) is inaccessible
or invalid. Contact your system administrator. When you run
an unattended installation by using a bootable CD-ROM or Winnt.exe command at a command prompt, you may receive the following error
message: Line <line#> of the INF file is invalid.
Setup cannot continue. Press any key to restart. CAUSEThis problem may occur iIf you use Setup Manager to build an
unattended answer file and a comma is used in any user defined field that also
contains spaces, Setup Manager does not put quotation marks around that field.
For example: [GuiUnattended]
TimeZone=33
AdminPassword=pass, word <----- missing quotes here.
OEMSkipRegional=1
OemSkipWelcome=1
[UserData]
FullName=my, name <------- missing quotes here.
OrgName=my company, inc <------ missing quotes here.
ComputerName=test RESOLUTION To resolve this problem, you must manually type quotation
marks around any user defined fields that contain spaces in the unattend file,
and then re-start the unattended setup by using the corrected unattend file. To
find syntax errors in the unattend answer file and then correct them, follow
these steps:
- Open Command Prompt, change to the \i386 folder in the
source of the Windows 2000 installation files, type Winnt
/u:Name_Of_Your_Answer_File /s:
Source_Location_Of_Windows_Files, and
then press ENTER.
- If there is a syntax error, you will see an error message
on a blue screen that reports the line number in the answer file that contains
the syntax error.
Take note of the line numbers that contain
errors. - To change the folder location to the location of your
answer file, type edit
Your_Answer_File, and then press
ENTER.
- Find the lines in the answer file that contain the syntax
errors, and then add the required quotation marks.
For example: [GuiUnattended]
TimeZone=33
AdminPassword="pass, word" <----- quotes added here.
OEMSkipRegional=1
OemSkipWelcome=1
[UserData]
FullName="my, name" <------- quotes added here.
OrgName="my company, inc" <------ quotes added here.
ComputerName=test - Save the corrected answer file and then restart the
unattended installation of Windows 2003.
STATUS Microsoft
has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed
at the beginning of this article.
Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 6/6/2003 |
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Keywords: | kberrmsg kbprb kbsetup KB247882 kbAudITPRO |
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