Frosty555

Yup you guys were right. Redid it using nLite to integrate RyanVM's packs, and I put the WMP11 stuff into a batch file in runonce, and everything went smoothly. I'll edit the original post to reflect the process..

What is the /integrate switch? Do you mean on the SP3 installer EXE? Isn't that basically just what nLite does? Darn it.... I spoke too soon about it working properly. I get "Advanced INF Install" errors saying it can't find WMP.INF. And a rundll32.exe failure saying it cannot find framedyn.dll and srcclient.dll. Seriously SP3 has a lot of issues...

So, the other day I was putting together the latest and greatest of my slipstreamed discs. I regularly use slipstreamed discs to make the install process faster when I reformat client computers, but my latest discs were only SP2, and had a lot of holes in them. It was time for new ones. My goal was to have a disc with: 1) Windows XP Professional OEM 2) XP Service Pack 3 3) RyanVM's PostSP3 upgrades 4) RyanVM's WGA Update Addon 5) Windows Media Player 11 Slipstream 6) IE7 Slipstream 7) A few unrelated programs that install unattended in the RunOnce But after takin an XP disc and slipstreaming SP3 onto it, I ran into a whole pile of trouble. In the "bluebootup box" during setup: "Unable to find SP3.CAB" "Unable to find Stream.sys" + many many others In the main setup: "Unregmp2.dll cannot find WMDRMSDK.DLL" + a hundred others as a result of the above error Nothing seemed to work. As it turned out, half the files from SP3 were never integrated into my install! So after much playing and toying around, I figured out a sequence that seems to work: 1) Extract a clean XP Pro OEM + SP2 disc 2) Use nLite to integrate Service Pack 3 3) Use nLite to integrate RyanVM's PostSP3 pack and WGA addon 4) Manually open the Service Pack 3 install EXE using WinRAR 5) Extract ALL files in the root of the service pack into the \I386\ folder. Make sure to SKIP files that already exist though. This ensures that everything that was in the service pack is also in the installation. 6) Add whatever you want to the $OEM$ folder Finally, use a batch file in the RunOnce to execute all of the WMP11 hotfixes and the installation itself. I found the WMP11 Slipstreamer to be flaky when combined with SP3. 7) Build the ISO file using nLite and test on a virtual machine For some reason it was really important to get all the files out of the SP3 installer manually and drop them into the I386 folder. Stuff was missing until I did that. ------ edit ------- Edited the steps above to be more accurate. RyanVM's integrator + SP3 apparantly doesn't mix well.