Windows 2000 DOS STARTUP WINDOW

[MrSharky]

Here's something I'm working on, I don't have a picture but maybe this will help.

Lets say that your drive on your Win2K is FAT32, and you want to convert it to NTFS, so you tell it to convert it to NTFS and it tells you it has to reboot. You say OK and it reboots. When it almost reaches windows it comes up with a screen that is 1/4 Win2K screen (That says "Windows 2000 Professional) and below that is a black "dos" window running the convert program using dos commands and stuff...

My project is this... I want my computer (the first time I boot it, as if this was a brand new, ut of the box) to come to that screen and run say a batch file (or something that would allow me to) change the computer name, assign an IP, and join the domain. How would one go about doing such a thing??

I do know how to join the domain (using NETDOM), easy, and also how to assign an IP (using NETSH), easy too, but I'm running into the problem where I need to change the computer name (I though it was "net" something).

So there are my two problems:
1) running my own batch (or script or whatever) in that instantance
2) command line for changing computer name under "DOS" in that instantance (see above line)

Any Ideas???

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

it most likely writes something to the registry to tell it to run XYZ during boot. what you could do is find this little program called inctrl5, and run it, then do a chkdsk or something on C: (so it will make you reboot to do it), then tell it no, you will reboot later, and then run inctrl5 again and see what changes were made to the registry.

as far as the hostname i have no idea

 

[MrSharky]

That really a neat tool, but it doesn't really tell me what I'm looking for...

 

[MrSharky]

. bump

 

[MrSharky]

this is still plagueing me... ?!?!?