I’ve struggled to get rid of the first screen (asking for language, time zone and keyboard) when performing an install of Windows 2008 R2, using an answer file created with WAIK. It looks like I wasn’t the first to hit this problem. Windows will display forms where it hasn’t got the right answers. In my case I had to pay attention to the following:
- UILanguage which needs to be en-US
- InputLocale = 0809:00000809
- TimeZone = GMT Standard Time
once the answer file is complete an image can be generated using the deployment tools command prompt so it can be mounted together with the windows iso:
oscdimg -n c:answer c:answer.iso