How can I install the Windows 2000 MultiLanguage Version as part of an unattended installation?
October 8, 2000
A. Each Win2K MultiLanguage Version install option uses about 50MB of disk space, so you must perform an installation that incorporates the Win2K MultiLanguage Version from a network share.
In the install source directory, create folder MUITEMP and copy all the files from the Win2K MultiLanguage CD-ROM to it (the system will copy these files to destination drive %windir% during the final phase of a Win2K installation from the distribution share).
Open your answer file (or create one).
Using the tables of language IDs and language groups (below), add a RegionalSettings section for your default language. For example, for English (language ID 0409, language group 1), you would add the following statements to your answer file:
[RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=1 Language=0409
In the GuiRunOnce section, add a command to run muisetup.exe to install the languages required, then include a command to run rmdir to delete the temp files:
[GuiRunOnce] "%windir%MUITEMPMUISETUP.exe [-i LangID LangID...] [-d ] -r -s" "%windir%SYSTEM32CMD.EXE /c RMDIR %WINDIR%MUITEMP /s /q"
Use the following command to run the installation:
winnt32.exe /unattend:"unattend.txt" /copysource:"lang" /copydir:"MUITEMP" /s:"path to install source"
For more information, see "How to Perform an Unattended Install of the Windows 2000 MultiLanguage Version" on Microsoft's Global Software Development Web site.
Language Name | Language ID |
---|---|
English (default) | 0409 |
French | 040c |
Spanish | 0c0a |
Italian | 0410 |
Swedish | 041D |
Dutch | 0413 |
Brazilian | 0416 |
Finnish | 040b |
Norwegian | 0414 |
Danish | 0406 |
Hungarian | 040e |
Polish | 0415 |
Russian | 0419 |
Czech | 0405 |
Greek | 0408 |
Portuguese | 0816 |
Turkish | 041f |
Japanese | 0411 |
Korean | 0412 |
German | 0407 |
Chinese (Simplified) | 0804 |
Chinese (Traditional) | 0404 |
Arabic | 0401 |
Hebrew | 040d |
Group Name | Group ID |
---|---|
Western Europe and United States | 1 |
Central Europe | 2 |
Baltic | 3 |
Greek | 4 |
Cyrillic | 5 |
Turkic | 6 |
Japanese | 7 |
Korean | 8 |
Traditional Chinese | 9 |
Simplified Chinese | 10 |
Thai | 11 |
Hebrew | 12 |
Arabic | 13 |
Vietnamese | 14 |
Indic | 15 |
Georgian | 16 |
Armenian | 17 |
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