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Generate autounattend.xml files for Windows 10/11

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215 points nixass | 4 comments | 29 Mar 25 20:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.645s | source
1. nullwarp ◴[01 Apr 25 19:21 UTC] No.43550439[source]▶
I could have definitely used this a few weeks ago! Very nice.
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2. 1970-01-01 ◴[01 Apr 25 20:21 UTC] No.43550924[source]▶
I could have used it a decade ago!

Now could someone please fix the BCD store mess?

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3. tannhaeuser ◴[01 Apr 25 20:22 UTC] No.43550938[source]▶
So have I, having failed to manage installing Win 11 without a MS account in the end. Actually I only wanted to complete a dual-boot Win 10/11 setup without having to haphazardly install Win 11 on top later, not actually use Win 11.
4. asveikau ◴[02 Apr 25 17:27 UTC] No.43559098[source]▶
Unattend has been part of windows setup for way longer than a decade.

The current form of it was introduced in Vista.

The same concept existed before, but I know less about how it worked back then.

Even without unattend, something I think people don't realize is that you can install windows on the command line. Diskpart to partition, dism /apply-image to extract files, then bcdboot to install the bootloader.