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22 Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment in a Retail Environment
2.2.3 Creating the unattended profile
The main purpose of creating an unattended profile is to allow for a native
installation of Windows XP to occur without replicating a pre-existing reference
system. In our scenario, we assume there is no existing reference system to
utilize. Therefore, we are building the system through the unattended profile
process which will become the reference system for future installations which we
can utilize for mass distribution.
We perform the following steps to create an unattended profile for Windows XP:
1. Log in to the console, select OS Deployment → Profiles→ Folders →
System Profiles → Add a new profile, as shown in Figure2-4.
Figure 2-4 Launching the Profile Wizard
2. In the first profile wizard window, choose the Unattended setup (scripted
install), as shown in Figure 2-5 on page 23. This is because we want to
install a new operating system using the installation CDs. Since one of the
main purposes of Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment is to make
the installation process simpler and faster, the profile wizard will continue
prompting the installation parameters in order to avoid the manual
intervention on the client machine after the deploy now command is
submitted. All the parameters that are needed to install an operation system
on a bare metal machine are automatically validated to the process without
any user intervention at a later time. Moreover, Tivoli Provisioning Manager