Hi, I was tackling the same thing, so maybe this will help. Firstly I am using SP2 at the moment, so I am needing to script my own solution. I have a completely silent instalaltion of W7, and have acheived this by:

1) I execute a "Run Script" task on the DS (without waiting for agent), this executes a "ReplaceTokens" pass on a pre-configured "unattend.xml" file and pulls custom build data from some custom data sources etc. The output XML is named with "%ID%" and placed in the temp folder.

2) I then deploy my base Altiris IMG version of a W7 install. A couple of things here;

• Microsoft indicates that using an unattend with the "install.wim" on the instalaltion disc/ISO will not work correctly. Some people have this working, but I don't know how. Create a "master" computer by doing a base install, then use IMAGEX to capture your own customised WIM and/or IMG file.
   
• Don't bother enabling the built-in administrator and customising it's profile etc. If you use SYSPREP this will all get reset/deleted during the OOBE phase.
   
• Yes, I am still using IMG formats. There are a number of things I would love to use WIMs for, but our deployment environemtn needs multi-casting and we don't have the bits to enable that. A SYSPREP generalized image works a treat though.

3) I then use another "Run Script" to fix the boot manager and copy the modified XML file over to the "Panther" folder.

4) I generated my XML in WSIM, but found that the following sections/passes were required to make it silent:

• Specialize Pass: Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup = ComptuerName, RegisteredOwned
• Specialize Pass: Microsoft-Windows-Setup <ImageInstall \ OSImage> = InstallTo (Disk / Partition)
• OOBE Pass: Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup = RegisteredOwned, TimeZone, RegisteredOrganization
• OOBE Pass: Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup <OOBE> = HideEula, HideWirelessSetupInOOBE, NetworkLocation, ProtectYourPC
• OOBE Pass: Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup <UserAccounts \ LocalAccounts> = Name, Group (Administrators), DisplayName, Description, Password
• OOBE Pass: Microsoft-WindowsInternational-Core = InputLocale, SystemLocale, UILanguage, UILanguageFallback, UserLocale

Sure, the above won't handle partition, but will hide everything else.

Good luck... and hit me back if you find a way to install DAgent without breaking the "setupcomplete.cmd" etc.

Murray

I have a post image script to copy the dagent.msi file from the altiris share to the local computer and then use SetupComplete.cmd to install it.