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daywalker03

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  1. I would have to agree with GM on the updates. Since SP2 is only a Release Candidate and not the final one, they probably won't let anyone get them any other way until the Final is released.

  2. I'm having a slight problem as well. When I use a winnt.sif file, the installation ends up with IE not associated with http url's and the Windows Update shortcut on the Classic Start Menu fails to open the Windows Update Website. I can post an edited version of my winnt.sif if it would be of help.

  3. I downloaded XPCreate and XPHotfix. I downloaded the the hotfixes and then used XP Create to make a CD. It installed fine but when I went to windows update these were missing:

    DirectX 9.0b

    Creative Technology Ltd. multimedia software update released on june 18 2002

    Recommeded Update for windows XP SP1 (817778)

    816093: Security Update Microsoft Virtual Machine (Microsoft VM)

    Security Update for windows XP (819696)

    Where can I download these and what folders should I place them in?

    DX 9.0b should have been there. DX9ntopk is the same thing.

    The Creative Tech update isn't a "Critical" update.

    KB817778 cannot be installed with XPCreate. You'll get an error message. Go to Start - Run and type SYSOCMGR to see what you'll get.

    As far as the others, I'm not sure.

  4. @daywalker03: You, on the other hand, are a bit fast ... did you remember to copy the files?

    :) Only file I put in was XPSP2. All 273MB of it. I might have the rest here somewhere if you want a more "accurate" time...

    For what it's worth, GM, my times on PATA are close to yours on SATA. I think the one full disk I did was around 35 minutes.

  5. Well, I just did one. GM, this is Windows XP Pro 2002, just updating it to Service Pack 2 RC1.

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    -- 16:53:48 -- Started  at: 16:46:29
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    -- 16:53:48 -- Finished at: 16:53:48
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    System is Athlon XP 2200+, 512 MB RAM, Creative 8432 CD-RW drive reading the XP CD-ROM, WD 80 GIG Parallel ATA HD. Just to the ISO stage, not including burning the image to CD-R.

  6. try mounting the ISO in Alcohol or DaemonTools, and have VirtualPC snag the virtual drive.

    as for the harddrive, do you have it set to be dynamically increasing or fixed?

    Don't have either program you mentioned to try that. As for the virtual hard disk, it's set for dynamic. I'll try fixed size to see if that makes any difference.

    Even with it using a fixed size disk, it hangs up. :)

  7. Microsoft Virtual PC. It hangs when trying to format. It does create the partitions, but hangs trying to access the CDROM. Error message is this: "Please insert the following disk in drive D (or your CD-ROM drive): Windows 98 Boot Disk or CD-ROM When you are ready to continue, press ENTER. " Since the disk is an ISO image and it is "in" the virtual cd-rom, I hit enter and the error message repeats. :)

  8. Yes, the mscdex.exe is on the ramdisk. The ramdisk is D:, so I'd have to set the CDROM as E:. Like I said though, if I exit the setup to the A:\ command prompt, I can fdisk and format the virtual drive, reboot and OEMSetup will start to install Windows 98se. I even tried different virtual drive sizes last night to see if that was the problem, and it's not.

  9. Here it is.

    @ECHO OFF
    set EXPAND=YES
    SET DIRCMD=/O:N
    set LglDrv=27 * 26 Z 25 Y 24 X 23 W 22 V 21 U 20 T 19 S 18 R 17 Q 16 P 15
    set LglDrv=%LglDrv% O 14 N 13 M 12 L 11 K 10 J 9 I 8 H 7 G 6 F 5 E 4 D 3 C
    cls
    call setramd.bat %LglDrv%
    set temp=c:\
    set tmp=c:\
    path=%RAMD%:\;a:\;%CDROM%:\
    copy command.com %RAMD%:\ > NUL
    set comspec=%RAMD%:\command.com
    copy extract.exe %RAMD%:\ > NUL
    copy readme.txt %RAMD%:\ > NUL

    :ERROR
    IF EXIST ebd.cab GOTO EXT
    echo Please insert Windows 98 Startup Disk 2
    echo.
    pause
    GOTO ERROR

    :EXT
    %RAMD%:\extract /y /e /l %RAMD%: ebd.cab > NUL
    echo The diagnostic tools were successfully loaded to drive %RAMD%.
    echo.
    LH %ramd%:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001 /L:%CDROM%
    echo.
    cls
    echo Now installing Windows 98 SE
    echo.
    echo Loading...
    path=%RAMD%:\;a:\;%CDROM%:\SETUP\98SE\WIN98\
    OEMSETUP.EXE
    echo.
    GOTO QUIT

    :QUIT
    echo To get help, type HELP and press ENTER.
    echo.
    rem clean up environment variables
    set CDROM=
    set LglDrv=

  10. I was trying to get a screen capture so you could see exactly the error I'm getting. It's still in DOS. I'm using flyakite's 98se disk image, so I think the path is set right. For what it's worth, if I manually partition and format, OEMSetup will start the installation. Figure that out... :)

  11. @Alanoll, that's exactly what mine is not doing... It boot from the DVD image in Virtual PC, goes through the start up, tells me it needs to format the disk, at which point I get the error I posted. :) I thought I was being specific enough...

  12. I haven't burned it to DVD yet since I don't want to do that til I have it working right before I do that. Even if I fdisk from a DOS prompt in Virtual PC, 98se won't format the drive in DOS mode. It errors out with " Please insert Windows 98 CD-ROM or floppy and press Enter."

  13. @Alanoll My problem is that once I get to the point of formatting the hard drive it keeps asking for me to insert the Windows 98 CD. I'm using 98se OEM on a Multi-boot DVD built using flyakite's guide, including the disk images on his site.

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