Jazkal

When rebuilding my x64 XP cd, I just used the 32bit boot sector, it works fine for me.

lvllord's patcher worked for me. I patched the tcpip.sys file and reinserted it into the source files, so it installs with the patched file from the begining.

I have no idea on your firewall settings, I add the following to the winnt.sif file. Turns off Windows Firewall. If you want other settings, then read the ref.chm file. [WindowsFirewall] Profiles = WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall [WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall] Mode = 0 EDIT: I was looking at the explorer tweaks, and noticed your making changes in "Wow6432Node". This branch is specifically for 32bit apps. I'm not sure you need changes here unless your making changes to the 32bit version of IE. I could be wrong, just what my understanding is.

Some motherboard take memory and dedicate it for the PCI bus. A Dell 2850 with 4 gigs of ram will only show 3 gigs in Windows. A Dell 2650 with 4 gigs of ram, shows 3.5gigs in windows. This is a "feature", not a bug, or so Dell says. Looking into it, it seems that most Motherboards companys design them this way. I think that it matters how much "stuff" they throw on the motherboard. You can get around this with a /PAE switch, but Microsoft doesn't suggest using it on a production system, something about stability.

If you are doing unattended network based installs today with a DOS floppy to kick it off, you can not continue this with x64. This would require some form of WinPE x64.

Does anyone know the offset for Windows XP x64 version of SFC_OS.DLL ?

I haven't seen anything "new", but it is needed if you are installing 64bit Windows to 64bit hardware over the network. I have mine booting over PXE (no more CD needed), very high coolness factor :-)

Anyone know of a free 64bit ramdisk driver? I want to integrate it into 64bit WinPE.

Did you ever get this resolved? I'm just starting on something just like this, and could use the info. Thanks

Personally, I prefer BartsPE. But if you need 64bit support, then you are stuck with WinPE.

Anyone know where to download KB887797?

I know this is an old post, but I found it when I was looking for a solution. Then I figured it out myself. To remove the "Windows Marketplace" IE shortcut link from getting generated, do the following: Find and open with a text editor, the file HIVESFT.INF in the I386 folder. Find these lines (around line 70-80) and remove them. HKLM,"Software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{4b218e3e-bc98-4770-93d3-2731b9329278}",,,"Internet Explorer" HKLM,"Software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{4b218e3e-bc98-4770-93d3-2731b9329278}","ComponentID",,"Windows Marketplace Link" HKLM,"Software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{4b218e3e-bc98-4770-93d3-2731b9329278}","IsInstalled",0x00010001,0x00000001 HKLM,"Software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{4b218e3e-bc98-4770-93d3-2731b9329278}","Locale",,"EN" HKLM,"Software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{4b218e3e-bc98-4770-93d3-2731b9329278}","StubPath",0x00020000,"%SystemRoot%\System32\rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection MarketplaceLinkInstall 896 %systemroot%\inf\ie.inf" HKLM,"Software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{4b218e3e-bc98-4770-93d3-2731b9329278}","Version",,"1,0,0,0" That's it. It works for my WinPE CD, haven't tested on XP yet, but I don't see why it wouldn't work.

Only if you are using VMWare. They are tools that allow you to copy and paste clipboard and files into your virtual machine.

Having one driver path for XP and 2k is gonna be rough. The drivers will cause problems with each other. I would keep them seperated. I have two OS's I support; Win2k Servers, and Win2k3 Servers. My Driver path looks like the following: DRV\1\1;DRV\1\2;DRV\1\3;DRV\1\6;DRV\1\7;DRV\1\8;DRV\2\1;DRV\2\2;DRV\2\3; DRV\2\4\1;DRV\2\4\2;DRV\2\5\1;DRV\2\5\2;DRV\2\5\3;DRV\2\6\1;DRV\2\6\2; DRV\3\1;DRV\3\2\1;DRV\3\2\2;DRV\3\2\3;DRV\3\2\4;DRV\3\3;DRV\3\4\1;DRV\3\4\2; DRV\3\4\3;DRV\3\5\1;DRV\3\5\2;DRV\3\5\3;DRV\3\6;DRV\3\7;DRV\3\8;DRV\4\1 All one long line, just broken up here for readability. DRV is in the root of C:\ I use empty text files to inform me what the different folders are: ie. DRV\ 1 (folders) 2 3 4 1_LAPTOP (txt files) 2_Desktop 3_Other 4_Tablet

Yes it is possible. One, the hardware must support booting to removable media. Two, I'd use WinPE, or BartsPE over DOS to do the install. IMHO

You can make it whatever size you want. It's all drag and drop. EDIT: If you want to try it out, you can download an eval version here Wise Instalation System v9

It could be modified to use it then. Mine actually modifies an INI file (before you ever start the install), and at RunOnceEx another app I created reads the INI and only installs the apps (and any tweaks for that app) that were chosen earlier. I mainly put the source file there, so anyone could see how easy Wise 9 creates a GUI, with the logic/scripting needed to install apps.

Didn't go over the whole file, nor can I read the error message. But I did notice that the BITS service is disabled. "Disable Background Intelligent Transfer Service" Can't do that with v5 windows update, I know it'll error out if it is.

I wrote this one in Wise 9. EDIT: I know it's real rough around the edges, but that took me about 5 mins to create. I use it on the front end. My DVD works with a floppy that you configure before you start, allowing you to choose your user names, passwords, apps to be installed, and so on. Here is the Wise 9 source if you want to look at it. ChooseApps.wse

On the registry entries, no, no tips. But there are lots of threads discussing what reg tweaks others use. On saving the Firm money, if you have more than 20-30 workstations (actually, any number), then I would suggest you look into some kind of imaging solution. There is RIS, Ghost, etc.. When used with sysprep, you can have a single image that can deploy to multiple systems. It's not for everybody, but it saves ton's of time in deployment to multiple systems. Just as an example, here at my work, I designed the system we use. It can do as many as 16 computers at a time (only limited to the number of available ports), and only takes 16 mins til they are all ready to distrubute.

np, and good luck.

Can you give us a list of the root directory for the CD? That would help.

What is your goal/question? Do you want to make the user an admin? or Do you not want it to login when it does? It would help if you were clear on what exactly you wanted to happen.

Put the $oem$ directory in the root of the cd.

Journal Viewer 1.5 Switch: /qn Full syntax: JV.msi /qn Extraction needed: Yes Found this in the Switches thread.