Is rufus compatible With autounattend.xml file


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Is rufus compatible with autounattend.xml file, In which partition do I put it into? UEFI_NTFS or 2nd Partition? John
 

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When asked to perform Windows Setup features, Rufus will create its own \Windows\Panther\unattend.xml.

Due to the search order for answer files, Windows Setup will accept this file before any \autounattended.xml you have on the USB media.

The solution is to either modify the unattend.xml Rufus wrote for you, or skip having Rufus do this work, and copy those XML lines into the autounattend.xml you're building for the install. Setup doesn't merge the two files when running.
 

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"F:\sources\$OEM$\$$\Panther\unattend.xml"
 

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abactuon said:
"F:\sources\$OEM$\$$\Panther\unattend.xml"
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There's a reason for that, as listed in Rufus' source code (src/wue.c). I think he could have simply dropped a dummy windowsPE pass...

Code: 
            // If there is no windowsPE section in our unattend, then copying it as Autounattend.xml on
            // the root of boot.wim will not work as Windows Setup does *NOT* carry Autounattend.xml into
            // %WINDIR%\Panther\unattend.xml then (See: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/issues/1981).
            // So instead, copy it to \sources\$OEM$\$$\Panther\unattend.xml on the media, as the content
            // of \sources\$OEM$\$$\* will get copied into %WINDIR%\ during the file copy phase.
 

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