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Hmm. I came into the thread ready to answer a question, and it's already done. That was easy As for rebooting the machine, those types of issues are mostly covered in the unattended forum, and not really handled by xpcreate.

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBP/tip7600/rh7628.htm It is an interesting link and suggests incorrect versions of files being used, for whatever reason. As a test, did you slipstream service pack 1 into your source before running XPCreate? See if the problems continue. I have no way of getting a japanese version of XP Pro, so I cannot test various things here.

Verified and Done. Thank you.

Thanks very much for creating the list! It has been added to the server. -V

I'm good for documentation/examples, as well as anything else needed outside of coding (unless you need something done in Perl or (unix) shell scripting. I'm not much of a programmer; just a networking guy )

I understand how this could be useful in your situation, but consider that it is better for XPCreate to exit instead of continue after errors, because if there are corrupted/partial downloads, - GM doesn't have to try to debug a problem when someone forgets to tell him "oh yeah I downloaded a lot of partial files" - The user doesn't get an opportunity to try to create a possibly broken CD for those two reasons alone, it is a bad idea to continue Otherwise, GM would have to actually go through and say "OK its safe to continue after an error in this part of the code, so set a variable here to allow it, but at this point in the program it is critical that there are no errors, so set a negative variable here..." etc. It's a lot of extra work on his part with very small benefit and an even smaller percentage of users that would benefit from it. So it's probably not very likely My suggestion in your case then is to manually download the patches you need (or with a successful automatic download), and then disable auto-downloading after that.

Thats really weird. The download link I posted above downloads: SWFLASH.CAB (487462 bytes) MD5: 1ef07bc1ae13ea565a25a3732fd4a694 So, XPCREATE is correct - you have an outdated version of swflash.cab somewhere that it can see, in the SVC-SWF folder. I don't know what to say except delete the old one and download the new one from the macromedia link I provided, so it is seeing the file it expects. Otherwise, I'm not sure what's going on. Are you using the xpcreate.wiretapped.us web address (the default) to download your hotfix list? If you are not, your list is probably outdated. The signature of the SWFLASH.CAB file has changed in the last week.

Hi Gravity, The problem is - we do not have a download list for Japanese yet I cannot read Japanese, and I don't think GreenMachine can either. Since each language version has different update files, we do not have the correct filenames / download locations for them yet. We need a person or two to volunteer to create the list for each language, so that everyone can benefit. However, since most people have been very quiet, we only have roughly 5 languages covered right now. By the way, I want to say thank you to all of you who have created download lists for various languages. Although English is the most downloaded version, there is still a nice percentage of people trying to download updates for others.

This is not an XPCreate question - this is a regular "unattended" question, so you probably won't get too many replies here. Honestly, I would post it either in the device drivers or unattended windows forum

If I remember right, Q831167 is the advanced networking pack. I am pretty sure this one has a problem installing before reboot - so you have to install it using RunOnce or something similar, on first login. This is not an XPCreate-specific problem, though. Nobody's been able to figure out how to get it to install before the last reboot.

Thanks for catching that; you're right -- somehow I missed that. Fixed.

Try deleting your copy of swflash.cab and letting it download a new one; or download it from: http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/swflash.cab I just re-downloaded it, and the signature hasn't changed since the last update. Maybe I missed one of the update lists -- what language and OS are you using?

I'm not sure what exactly you're smoking, but it appears to be powerful. I just clicked the link, downloaded the file, ran the installer, and opened up xpcreate.cmd. The version is for "11 JUN 2004", and it does work. You are looking at the wrong copy of XPCREATE on your hard drive then, I guess.

Don't be lazy. If we are talking about a problem you are having with XPCREATE, perhaps you should look in the XPCREATE folder for LOGFILES.CAB before asking someone else to find it for you? I'm pretty sure Windows XP has a Start -> Search -> For Files or Folders function as well... -V

Usually, we keep this information private - but since you have been persistent, I will give you the secret download link for XPCreate.

You do not edit the download list. You can: a) not download any hotfixes automatically (DLURL=NO) b) let XPCREATE download the fixes and then delete the ones you don't want, or c) save a copy of the hotfix list modify it, set up your own webserver, and point XPCREATE at your custom list. My suggestion is to let it download the hotfixes, then after it downloads the set -- just change the line in XPCREATE.INI to "DLURL=NO" and delete the hotfixes you don't want. Additionally, why dont you just delete the SWFLASH.CAB that you have, and use the one that is downloaded by XPCREATE? [edit]: the MD5 on swflash.cab has changed, so I presume they've updated it. The download lists have been updated.

Updated, thanks. I'm looking into easier ways to maintain this, it just takes time for me to learn some things. (hopefully not too much time )

Right. Wget for windows is pretty nice. The only downside to it vs the iOpus thing is that the iOpus downloader gives you a very obvious "status bar" while downloading. Wget runs in the command window, so it's not so obvious. I downloaded wget from here. The interesting thing with this version is that he compressed it with UPX, so instead of a 300k .exe, it's just over 100k. So, it is considerably smaller than the iOpus program. The one thing I thought would be interesting if GreenMachine switched to wGet instead of iOpus is that he could do something like this on the commandline: wget -u "XPCreate June 11 2004" http://www.blahblah.com/ .. and then the server logs would record that as the user agent/browser version.. so he could see what percentage of users were using outdated/current versions of XPCreate. One other thing I just thought of that he might want to impliment in the future would be a "version check" (if the user has DLAUTO=yes enabled). It could go fetch a text file at a url like: http://www.domain.com/VERSION and then inside the VERSION file could be something really simple like: 1.13 Then XPCreate could compare it's current version (variable) with whatever version is in the text file, and if there is a newer version available, it could display a quick notice in bright yellow or something noticeable, telling the user that there is an update available. Blah blah blah, I'm rambling here so I'll stop -V

According to your logs: "After optimization, (cd) image file is 4129363968 bytes" (about 400 mb?) You ran nlite on the source, didn'tcha? That filesize is a little small for "original" XP source. heh. I bet if you used xpCreate on fresh source, it would not have a problem. nLite does not play well with others.

OK I'm starting with a Windows XP SP1 cd that is 525 megs. I think the only thing I deleted from my original XP cd was the 'VALUEADD' folder. What's that, about 25 mb? I am running XPCreate on it right now, to see how much the updates add to the total filesize. My guess is it'll add around 100mb. But even if an original Windows XP cd is 600mb, everything should still fit after XPCreate does its thing. I seriously doubt an original XP CD is 700mb (+100mb of updates/patches to total 800mb). I'll let you know how big the CD is after it finishes building and creating the ISO. My guess is you are starting with a non-standard Windows XP cd that is larger than it should be. I hope I am right. -V

BillyTheHamster, Retry it please; I have changed the HFLIST to match the new MD5.

Hi Alanoll, I went over to the MBSA v1.2 download page, grabbed it, and ran an MD5 on it. The MD5 matches. Is there a v1.3 that I missed or something? I thought the new updated signatures for MBSA were only downloaded after you run it for the first time, and that the core MBSA download file stayed the same. It is possible that I am wrong, or that I went to the wrong page From the page linked above, I downloaded the English version of MBSA and the MD5 [1a7c55848c6ded8dfdb4860d1506f863] matches the one in the HFLIST. Thanks, -V

Updated; thanks!

That's strange.. I have re-verified that the MD5 is wrong, and have updated the Win2003 lists with the new signature. Keep in mind that Microsoft may have updated the file in some insignificant way (a typo correction, etc), and just not updated the release date on the page. Even a change of one byte will create an entirely different MD5 sum. [edit]: I created a XPC/2003 CD using the download list on June 11th, and it did download the file without complaint. So I'm guessing the file has in fact changed since then. The only update that was missing after installing was the DX9 patch (as I expected, since I didn't put it in RunOnce). -V

Thanks ente -- I have updated the German version of XPP with your changes. -J