midiboy Posted November 20, 2005 Share Posted November 20, 2005 Hi everyone !I am using an unattended disc for work where we use a corporate windows version using a VLK key. However, sometimes we would like to use that disc for retail windows versions also.I would like to avoid adding a complete second Windows XP installation to that disc ig, a second i386 folder containg the retail XP setup files.However a retail key doesn´t work for the corporate edition so what are my options ? Any ideas ?That would be really nice ! Thanks ! Bye,ALex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtwarrior Posted November 20, 2005 Share Posted November 20, 2005 If its a leget VLK just use that one for all. There are 10 files which are different between the 2. No need to ask which ones because this has been asked hundreds of times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C01eMaN Posted November 20, 2005 Share Posted November 20, 2005 humm and once you find them just copy them to hdd then over write the other ones... good idea might use it myself for my AIO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midiboy Posted November 20, 2005 Author Share Posted November 20, 2005 Hi guys,well thanks for your help !Actually I did a search. The only difference between corp and retail versions I was able to find was the different numbers in setupp.ini. I did not find another reference to additional files.Anyway, this does not help much yet. Since I am installing from DVD directly, I would have to create a multibootDVD with two seperate installations, one corp, one retail just for that small difference ... I cannot think of any other way thats why I posted here.C01eMaN:what do you mean by copy files to hd ? I mean if Windows installs from DVD directly how can you do that or how do you install ? Thanks,Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bezalel Posted November 20, 2005 Share Posted November 20, 2005 You can install using the corporate files and just run a script afterwards to change the key. setupp.ini determines which keys can be used to install, once windows is installed any valid kay can be used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtwarrior Posted November 20, 2005 Share Posted November 20, 2005 (edited) pidgen is different toosetupreg is differensome oembios is different Edited November 20, 2005 by dirtwarrior Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C01eMaN Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 forget what i said its easier to make a multiboot cd then optimise the imageread thisFlyakite's Multiboot Guideif ya get stuck send me a messagei made a multiboot cd with the oem version and corp version and it fits on a cdrom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No6 Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 The Flyakite's guide mentioned above is excellent. You really don't need to know which files are different if CDImage.EXE is used to create the CD. CDImage will copy identical files only once, effectively cutting the size of the double installation to half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midiboy Posted November 26, 2005 Author Share Posted November 26, 2005 Hi guys,well yeah, the easiest way would be a multibootDVD, and I know that CDimage will cut down on size. Nevertheless those files take space on harddisc even though more than 99% of the files are the same.Also, what if I am integrating something like Bashrats driverpacks? I would like to avoid using different $OEM$ folders for each windows installation. Can I share one $OEM$ folder between installations ?@Bezalel: I didn´t know there are scripts that can change a product key after installation. Didn´t Microsoft change that after SP1 ? Are there scripts available that would do that ? I am not that good in scripting Bye,Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bezalel Posted November 27, 2005 Share Posted November 27, 2005 Take a look at the scripts on http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechn...oy/wpadepl.mspx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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