(Solved) Unreliable ISO install

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Sephir8th

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So I'm trying to understand why the imaging is so off, at time it images perfectly fine other time it sits and waits forever until it comes to the initial login screen and doesn't take in any of the inputs to auto login or the accounts. Simply has Administrator and a guest account. Is there an explanation for this?

Here's what my Unattended tab looks like:

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Your Post-Setup screen would be more useful. Normally a long delay is from Post-Setup actions. Again, a preset is best (after you made a copy and deleted the user account info).
 
As garlin alluded, make sure the post-setup installers do not prompt for any input, or switch post-setup mode from the Machine section to the User, then it supports prompts and easier to see what's going on.
 
Okay just confirmed used the Exact same setting to build 2 iso.
ISO 1: Has [Prompt] for computer name - This one works with no issue
ISO 2: Computer name is not enabled - This is the one having issues
 
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Literally side by side exact ISO the one on the left has [Prompt] enabled and started the imaging late, the one on the right is hanged on please wait, only difference no Computer name assigned to it. Very confused...

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nuhi said:
As garlin alluded, make sure the post-setup installers do not prompt for any input, or switch post-setup mode from the Machine section to the User, then it supports prompts and easier to see what's going on.
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Any other suggestions as to what it could be?
 
What happens when you remove Atera and WebRoot? All the other apps don't care about hostnames.
 
Nothing same result, Atera and webroot are completely silent. What's not making sense to me is the one with the Prompt works while the one without the prompt doesn't. That's literally the only difference between the 2
 
The hostname prompt is just a tiny VBS script that NTLite injects, which replaces the '[Prompt]' string in \Windows\Panther\unattend.xml, before continuing on with installation. It has no bearing on the Post-Setup tasks.

Did you remove both apps? I didn't ask if they're silent installs. By the time Post-Setup commands are run, we're way past where the VBS script changes the hostname. All the other apps don't care about the host's identity, but you have a RMM and one security product.

For debugging, I would change all the lines and append stdout redirects to a "logfile.txt" to capture any possible output.

When the install hangs, power down and reboot off a normal WinPE (non-Setup). Open a CMD window with shift-F10 and look around \Windows\Panther folder for:
- setuperr.log​
- setaupct.log​
 
thanks for the details, I decided to re-download a fresh ISO and recreated all the packages and that seems to have solved it.
 
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