jdeboeck, I love your scripts. Until now I've been holding out on migrating from NT4 because of all the junk in 2K/XP. Can't wait for your SP2 version to come out.
When I ran your SP1 version, I did notice a few things:
- Sometimes there are spaces in the "echo" portion of your scripts, right before the ">>". These cause the findstr command to not find matches in the inf files.
- Sometimes the cases of file names got changed. For the longest time, I wasn't able to figure out why my boot CD (from gosh's instructions) didn't work -- turned out the file names of some important files like NTLDR was not in all caps.
- I got greedy a few times and ran all of your scripts, and regretted well after I piled applications on top of the barebones XP. I couldn't figure out if there was a way to add back components (or even group of components), so I had to start from scratch all over again. Wasted a good many days Would be really great if things were optional instead of being deleted completely -- unless you have some tips?
Perhaps you would take these into consideration as you work on your SP2 scripts. Again, really, really great job you're doing
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jdeboeck, I love your scripts. Until now I've been holding out on migrating from NT4 because of all the junk in 2K/XP. Can't wait for your SP2 version to come out.
When I ran your SP1 version, I did notice a few things:
- Sometimes there are spaces in the "echo" portion of your scripts, right before the ">>". These cause the findstr command to not find matches in the inf files.
- Sometimes the cases of file names got changed. For the longest time, I wasn't able to figure out why my boot CD (from gosh's instructions) didn't work -- turned out the file names of some important files like NTLDR was not in all caps.
- I got greedy a few times and ran all of your scripts, and regretted well after I piled applications on top of the barebones XP. I couldn't figure out if there was a way to add back components (or even group of components), so I had to start from scratch all over again. Wasted a good many days
Would be really great if things were optional instead of being deleted completely -- unless you have some tips?
Perhaps you would take these into consideration as you work on your SP2 scripts. Again, really, really great job you're doing
