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If anyone is remotely interested, although it doesnt really look like it.. I have had success... I can now create/delete the pagefile on which ever drive I chose, using an ameded script... which will run on my unattended disk...

Ive not tried it yet, but downloaded it ready... I believe it has been configured with the necessary switches to silent install, so would you just install it as you would any other app/prog, it is an exe afterall???

Nothing like chatting to yourself in a thread....!! Surely I cant be the only one who has wanted to move a pagefile during a Ua install build....??? Maybe I am!!!

Probably the easiet, is to reduce the size of the overall image... there are several directories you can remove to knock off about 150mb... afterall, I believe the whole disk is copied to the HD during setup, so reducing the size, will reduce the time involved. i386/lang (99mb) is one of them,and perhaps the largest... depends on your needs, Ive certainly never had any probs after removing this from the install, also support, valuadd, winntupg (and some others I cant quite remember)... I believe there are other progs like nlite, which can strip other stuff out, Im sure Ive heard of a <200mb Ua install cd.... mine is just under 400mb, but contains no apps, yet.. just the XPSP2 install...

Had a look in the pagefileconfig.vbs, and think Ive found the bit I need to ammend, which asks for confirmation of execution of the delete command: Gonna experiment when I get home...

^^anyone help with scripting^^

After testing various commands, I think Ive found the problem, but do not know how to get around it... I have managed to execute the delete command, but a confirmation is prompted for to delete, however, if I try to supress script errors or prompts using the cscript.exe //B command, it wont execute at all.. I need to know how I can automatically enter Y to confirm execution of the script... Anyone got any suggestions... its all getting a little deep for me now!! I need an expert on scripting here I think..., there does not appear to be any commandline switches to auto accept/confirm the delete command, when run from a batch file, there needs to be some user input, if only hit y and enter... can someone please help!! Thanks

After reading a good thread on manipulating the pagefile.. I have been experimenting, however I cannot seem to delete the active pagefile, even though I have created a new one... I know this can be done manually, but it just seems to hang when it is processing the delet command, which I run after I have created a new pagefile on a different drive.... my batch file reads: I was trying to delete the pagefile on e (currently active), in favour of a new one on d, but am suspecting that this is the problem, although I know you can add and delte them manually.... Anyone got any ideas..??

Have not had a chance to try, I had just read somewhere... that some of the newer versions, where the code is encrupted, that some people have had problems, where they are still asked for details when first running the prog... Is the encrypted key unique to the pc on which its installed??? Thanks

Just found this... dunno if work with XP, but it seems a good place to start... diskpart.exe http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techi.../diskpart-o.asp Answered my own question... http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen...s/diskpart.mspx

^^ Anyone...?? Drive mappings during UA install would be handy..??? .... After a bit of hunting about, think I may have found what I was after... http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen...s/diskpart.mspx diskpart.exe commandline disk administrator.... will give it a go... ..... Some apps wont work if I try to install their serial/registration details via a reg key, usually if its encrypted in the registry... how can I get around this..?? For example, I believe UltraISO has this prob, whereby it encrypts the key, and it does not seem to import very well as a regedit.... prog still asks for user details when first run...???

Im looking for something similar too... I would like to be able to assign drive letters in accordance with drive/partition names during setup... but dont really know where to start... I have several fixed partitions that I always have to change drive letters for after a clean install, and also to re-assign my 2 dvd drives to Y and Z. C: BOOT (100mb) D: SYSTEMDRIVE (20gb) E: STORE (20gb) F: ARCHIVE (40GB) X: CACHEDRIVE (6GB) Y: DVD1 Z: DVD2 In reality though, they obviously never appear like this after a rebuild due to the partitions location... I would also like to move my pagefile, tem int files, and docs and sett to the X drive during install, after drive letter assignment... Dunno if this is possible though...

Was just wondering if I could automate some of the following tasks I always do after a clean install... its quite time consuming, but I dont know if some can be easily achieved with regedits, scripting or some fore of automation... 1) Assigning of drive letters I always have a seperate partition I call X, on a seperate HD for pagefile, temp int files... etc... Could I also move the location of such files, and Docs and Settings onto this X (CACHE) partition during UA install? I would imagine that this could depend on the partitions at time of install, so could I not use the partition names to identify them, and re-assign letters accordingly.. I.E., assign partition name CACHE drive letter X ?? I usually like to rename my 2 dvd drives as Y and Z, can this also be done?? 2) I have several apps, which after searching thr forum and trawling the net, cannot find a silent way to tinstall user registration details... (regedits dont seem to work for some) is there any means of automating this, I have read about AutoIT, but wondered if there was an alternative method/solution. 3) Sorting the start menu programs... although I assume after all the progs have been installed, I could just delete all user profile start menu items, and copy over some predifined folders/shortcuts...for all users, admin, and myself...?? Ive managed to get a few UA's working great, but just want to extend their functionality to achieve the automation of all the repetitive things I do after a clean build... Any help would be appreciated.... Thanks

Yeah thanks.. got it sorted.... Didnt really "think" about changes to that file, obvious really!!! All sorted and up and running

The following value in the .sif file used by Setup is corrupted or missing. Value 0 on the line in section {SourceDisksFiles} with Key SP2.cab Setup cannot continue. To quit Setup, Press F3 The {SourceDisksFiles} is in the txtsetup.sif??? Anyone have any idea how to fix??? Just had a thought, I didnt check tis file to see if it was different to the one off my sp1 cd, I suspect that it is!!!!!

Just created a slipstreamed ISO with SP2... no problem!! However, I decided to copy some files from my XPSP1 unattended install cd, namely, the $oem$ folder (which contains my SATA drivers), the txtsetup.sif (again, for the SATA drivers), and the winnt.sif (the important bit!!!). However, during the install, I get an error saying that there is something missing in the winn.sif file referreing to sp2.cab. I can understand this, as there would be no reference to this as it was taken from my SP1 cd... Anyone know what mods I need to make to this .sif file in order for it to install correctly?? Cheers Could anyone who has done an unattended sp2 slipstreamed cd please check their winnt.sif for a ref to sp2.cab??