[BM]Crusher

you might have to modify the INF file... if you install it from windows, telling windows to search in the directory "c:\temp\sony" or whatever, does it install the driver without asking for the directory path?

that might or might not work, the correct syntax is: for /f "tokens=1" %%i IN (`compname /d ?s`) do set ASSET=%%i changed %ASSET% to ASSET changed the ''s to ``s

basically, you can save your current configuration as a file, through the power control panel, then there is a command you run the load the saved config is what i have read on this forum before... try the following: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg] that is the only key you need to export apparently, then import the file with regedit /s power.reg or, check out this Microsoft article about POWERCFG.EXE which will do what you want Microsoft POWERCFG.EXE

@pinout: i've never had to do that when using long filename execution i for one can't understand why it doesn't work anyway? i have run almost every program imaginable through the start command and never had a problem... i also cannot understand why "%programfiles%\winrar\hotfix.exe" doesn't work and loads another dos window what does the other window titled hotfix.exe do? maybe that is the hotfix being run? this sounds like what was happening to me when i was trying to get the WPI.HTA running through DetachedProgram by calling mshta.exe.... my problem there was it was far too early in the GUI setup stage to be calling HTA files or even mshta.exe (If i ran "start /wait mshta.exe wpi.hta" i would get a command window pop up titled mshta.exe, whereas if i ran that in windows it would load the wpi.hta file)...

i don't exactly understand your question? are you booting from cd? what config file are you trying to lock down? u want to have different cmdlines.txt for each user? it that it?

some of the hotfixes cannot be installed from svcpack.inf (have a look at the Windows XP Hotfixes thread)

you should have them in numerical order, but it doesn't really matter (as long as you run qchain.exe it makes sure all the correct versions are installed no matter how many service packs or which order they are installed in)

you can't create a new modem internet connection if your services have been stuffed with... check that the following are enabled (manual): Remote Access Auto Connection Manager Remote Access Connection Manager

if you looked at the other topic properly and understood about the windows setup process, you would understand that what you are asking cannot be done... basically it can't be done because there is no way to script the $OEM$ file copy in any way, shape or form... and you cannot set two OEMFilesPath settings, the second one takes over... the only way so far to have your apps on 2 cd's is the method mentioned in that post with the batch file to work out the cd drive name and having the disk get changed during the app installation.... it might take an extra minute or two to install off the cd but at least it's possible... anyway, copying the $OEM$ files takes forever because there are no proper drivers installed to enable fast performance, it might even be quicker to install the stuff directly off the cd than having it copied to the hard drive anyway

why would the DriversPath have the drives in the windows directory? product ID it makes no difference if you enclose it in "" marks... in fact, anything in the winnt.sif can be enclosed in "" marks and it still works BitsPerPixel=32 will work fine... if the video card doesn't support 32bit it will default to the highest supported bit depth... that link with the video card driver info, is that for ati or nvidia? *eek i just tried translating that page with babelfish, seems like it is some sort of unattend help forum but the translation didn't come through properly... I don't understand the stuff they were saying about adding the nvidia information to the INF files because you don't actually have to do that to make them work

surely, you mean "If you don't like the look..."

he must have copied a registry tweak file from somewhere... because he already has a tweak turning it off i like to make my own reg tweak files to avoid this sort of issue

This topic has been done before here Basically, if you know the MAC address of each computer's primary network card, you can use the following batch file: ECHO. ECHO Setting Computer Name ECHO Please wait... for /f "tokens=1" %%i IN ('compname /d ?m') do set MAC=%%i IF %MAC% == 123456789012 compname /c SCRAPHEAP IF %MAC% == ABCDEFGHIJKL compname /c SANDBOX IF %MAC% == 11AA22BB33CC compname /c STELLAR I hope this helps If you only want to set the computer name for just the one computer (meaning the disk will always set the computer name you want) just add the setting into your winnt.sif! and if you want it to set up user accounts, it can be done very easily with a short batch file run from cmdlines.txt addusers.cmd net user "Username 1" a_password /add net localgroup Administrators "Username 1" /add net user "Username 2" another_password /add net localgroup Administrators "Username 2" /add or if you want you can have it ask you what user name to add set /p username=Enter a username: set /p password=Enter a password: net user "%username%" %password% /add net localgroup Administrators "%username%" /add Setting computer name via batch file: set /p comp=Enter the Computer Name you want: compname /c %comp%

you put your install.cmd file into your $OEM$\$1\install folder then at any stage during or after the installation you can exectue %systemdrive%\install\install.cmd i see nothing wrong with your batch file to create the ISO image... checking the attributes is a handy idea but not needed for the successful creation i have found if you put file into $OEM$\$$\system32 they will end up in the %systemroot%\system32 folder

what sort of blue screen was it? a normal BSOD or some other install related error screen? you don't have to edit the dosnet file to add sata drivers i can't think what you did wrong integrating the sata drivers... but heres how i did it anyway: I added the si3112r.sy_ file to the I386 directory, then I added the following to the already existing txtsetup.sif (right at the bottom you should paste it) [Edit] oh and you have to of course have the normal driver files in the DriversPath so that it can install the windows driver (txtsetup.sif only enables the device during text setup portion) [SourceDisksFiles] si3112r.sys = 1,,,,,,4_,4,1,,,1,4 [HardwareIdsDatabase] PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_61121095 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_611215D9 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_34228086 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_B0031458 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_A0111019 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_A0121019 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_A0131019 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_A0141019 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_A0151019 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_1014147B = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_100B147B = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_1402147B = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_1404147B = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_1802147B = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_1804147B = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_1C00147B = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_5930107D = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_249510F1 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_809D1043 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_0270A0A0 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_044DA0A0 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_044CA0A0 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_92011905 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_92151905 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_904C1905 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_904B1905 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_A41810FD = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_A41910FD = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_A71910FD = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_90171695 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_C2001297 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_C2011297 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_15D40035 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3512&SUBSYS_65121095 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3512&SUBSYS_B0031458 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3512&SUBSYS_1014147B = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3512&SUBSYS_1021147B = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3512&SUBSYS_100B147B = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3512&SUBSYS_1C06147B = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3512&SUBSYS_1C00147B = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3512&SUBSYS_1C03147B = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3512&SUBSYS_1C04147B = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3512&SUBSYS_1406147B = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3512&SUBSYS_1407147B = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3512&SUBSYS_90191695 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3512&SUBSYS_C2021297 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3512&SUBSYS_C2031297 = "Si3112r" PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3512&SUBSYS_C2041297 = "Si3112r" [SCSI.load] si3112r = si3112r.sys,4 [SCSI] si3112r = "Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller"

is there any way to change what the migration tool migrates?

there shouldn't be a problem having sata drivers on the disk (i have 4 sata drivers on my disk: via, intel, silicon, promise) when u tested it with virtual pc, was that virtual pc running on the same system you are trying the disk on? if not your machine might have issues. if so, rebuild the image for the disk and burn it again...

u would have to convert the boot sector of the linux cd to a .IMG file and have cdshell load that image file... you would more than likely have to hex-edit it to change the path it's looking for the install files in unless you copied the directory sturcture onto your dvd... that should work..

I think you are right that should be dword:00000001 for the classic start menu, i'm taking a guess, try changing to dword:00000001 (honestly, I thought it was a different reg setting to change the start menu to classic)

don't forget that with many drivers, the .EXE driver installation archive will extract into a bunch of folders like the Via 4in1, where you need folders like OEMPnPDriversPath="Drivers\Via\Inf;Drivers\Via\XP;Drivers\Via\IDE" etc etc for every sub-folder that contains an .INF file, you will need to specify that directory as part of the OEMPnPDriversPath a lot of the driver archives you can delete a whole bunch of stuff once extracted, like with the Via 4in1 driver that supports multiple OS's you can delete all the 9x, 2K and ME crap out of it...

did you bother reading the unattend guide on this web site? (link) most of your answers will be there... your OEMINFO and other files go into <CD-ROOT>\$OEM$\$$\system32 for the unattended winnt.sif settings, you should check out the "unattend.txt" section of the REF.CHM from Setup Manager... the settings for the UnattendMode are: DefaultHide | FullUnattended | GuiAttended | ProvideDefault | ReadOnly I think the setting you want is UnattendMode=ProvideDefault

in the last week i've installed both redhat9 and mandrake10... i can't remember which one it was (sorry) but one of them asked me if i wanted to create an "install set" or similar named unattended install based on all the options and packages i had chosen during the install procedure...

@Alanoll haha of course i didn't even think someone would get that wrong but i bet your correct!

normally, you would have no icons after a fresh installation of windows right? anyway, i know how to do it and i will help you it's a registry setting: ; Desktop icons[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]"{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000"{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000"{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}"=dword:00000000"{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000I can't remember if I have them set to enabled or disabled (I think 0 is enabled and 1 is disabled for some reason) I can't remember what each one does again either! I can't remember much today... all I can remember is that the code above will have all 4 icons showing on the desktop change the last '0' in the dword value to '1' to disable an icon

yeah one of your install commands for one of the hotfixes (pretty specific aren't I) is incorrect and that is why it asks you where to extract... check all your install switches for hotfixes, then if you can't find it reply here quoting a copy of your svcpack.inf (or however else you install them)