michaeljeshurun

I'm feeling silly that I didn't realize bbie.exe in HFTOOLS worked automatically! Some forum answers mentioned after the boot.bin is created you can delete bbie, so that was partly to blame for the confusion. My first run of HFSLIP didn't create a SOURCESS folder at all. I definately didn't copy anything into it myself. I'll let you know how the next run works starting from scratch like you suggested, and I was going to. I think I got lucky I figured out creating one and leaving it empty worked out. As to your offer to check my HFSLIP.log, I did the first run with just SP2 and a few downloads from Microsoft, just as a test. I have another two hours of work I need to find to get all the ones I want. I'll definately need modiFYPE in the next run. Can I take a rain-check in case I mess something next time? TYVM

I found one or two quirks in the directions on the howto.html page. For one, I found that to use bbie.exe I needed to go to command prompt and specify the source drive. Probably a little more explanation on the HowTo page would 've helped me. Just typing bbie.exe at a prompt gives clear directions. Also, when I ran hfslip*.exe, a scruffy incomplete screwy FILE was created, not a folder. I needed to create my SOURCESS folder by hand. I just deleted that weird half-bred file, and everything went fairly smoothly. It never came back. I think the forum said I need to empty the hand-made SOURCESS folder every time I add Updates for slipstream. Finally, I did need to fish around the forum for an error with the compiler not finding modiFYPE.exe. I shouldn't have needed it according to what I found there, but I put it in, and that error was resolved. I guessing these three problems might have been fixed in more recent releases. I'm messing around with multi-boot linux systems, and I tend to screw up my OS setups quite often. The computer I do the experimentation on is XP Home (Gold?) with no service pack whatsoever included. But I do need the computer for watching a broadcast on Media Player daily, and to quality control my occasional web designs on it's oversize monitor. The HFSLIP disk I created with this system and programs have made my life easier. I'm back up and running in an hour, instead of worrying about network security, and repeating Windows Updates for hours everytime. Many thanks.