RedVyper

I did a CDCheck no erorrs reported. I'm going to try and start with a clean source and see how that goes I guess. Was hoping to just update my already created unattended. I'll let you all know how that goes.

I have done the fallwoing. I took my already created unattended CD with SP1 and all applications on it and copy it to the HD. The CD worked fine no scratches nothing on it. I then slipstreamed SP2 to my CD which apeared to work no error messages or anything. I then created the ISO useing CDImage which again worked no erorr messages reported. I loaded the ISO up in VMWare and thats when i get the NTFS.SYS file is missing or corrupt. I repeated the process a couple of times thinking maybe something happened durring the copy but it all work. So I thought ok maybe something is wrong once I copied my cd to the HD. So I took the fallowing steps 1.) Copied CD TO HD again 2.) Created ISO with CDIMAGE without SP2 slipstreamed 3.) Loaded it up in VMWare worked PERFECT Ok then I thought maybe a problem with my downloaded SP2 package So I readownlaoded it and I did the fallowing 1.) Copied CD to HD 2.) Renamed svcpack.inf because this one containted hotfixes. 3.) Slipstreamed the XPSP2 RTM 4.) Created ISO with CDIMAGE 5.) Loaded in in VMWare And ARGH i'm back to same message with NTFS.SYS

I slipstreamed the RTM release of SP2 to Windows XP today and am now trying an install and keep getting the message ntfs.sys corrupt. THe slipstream process seemed to work just fine had no erorrs.

Thank you all for your responses. I'm getting that my only real option is that i buy internal DVD-ROM drives for all the machines. The problem with the USB memory stick is the fact that I have a multiboot DVD-ROM with several different unattened windows installs on it for different departments. And 1024 USB key is not big enough and very expensive. I could use a boot disk I suppose but then it owuld not load the menu from cdshell at least I don't think and work properly off a multiboot DVD. am I incorrect on this. As far as the machines not supporting usb boot. Well actually acording to the BIOS they do however they will not boot off a USB DVD/CDROM I am told they will off other devices. Which is why I wondered about the flash drive So I guess a new question is. If I leave my multiboot dvdrom as is. and I take a make a bootable usb flash drive can it run cdshell from the multiboot dvdrom and install windows correctly? Withought haveing to modifty the dvd?

I hope someone might have an idea as to how I can make this work. I have about 200 DELL PC"s mixed between GX150 and GX270 and GX60 I have created a multiboot DVD Rom with all our different Images for different departments which work GREAT on the machines that have a DVD ROM drive intenrally. I couldn't ask for it to work better. However on the machines that do not have internal DVD ROM drives this does not work :-( I know I could use RIS or a network drive etc but I'd really prefer to come up with a way of doing it off DVD like i already have setup. Here is the problem. We have Addonics DVD-ROM USB drives on our NON DELL machines that allow booting USB this again works PERFECTLY. however on the DELL machines they refuse to recognize the USB DVD-ROM as a boot device in the bios thus we can't boot from it. I have checked with DELL for bios updates they all have the latest bios this has made no difference in our situation. I have called Dell Tech support and am getting no where. I get either its not possible or we don't support that. I posted some questions in the DELL forumns and have been told DELL machines will not boot of USB CDROM however they will boot of USB FLASH or FLOPPY or HD. So a thought that entered my mind might be. Can I make a boot sector on a USB flash device that would imediatly boot the USB CDROM and continue on as it would on the other machines. I really don't want to have to make two diff methods of doing this. Has anyone else ran into this problem? Anyone have a better idea or solution or a way of making something like this work. Obviously from waht I'm being told the ideal situion of just haveing the USB bootable DVD-ROM is not going to work on those machines. Is it possible ot make a boot sector or something that would do what I'm asking for anyone know how or have any ideas what I might look for or into? If this is something that would need a propritary boot sector written and coded or a programmer to do. We are in fact willing to pay for his services.

I hope someone might have an idea as to how I can make this work. I have about 200 DELL PC"s mixed between GX150 and GX270 and GX60 I have created a multiboot DVD Rom with all our different Images for different departments which work GREAT on the machines that have a DVD ROM drive intenrally. I couldn't ask for it to work better. However on the machines that do not have internal DVD ROM drives this does not work :-( I know I could use RIS or a network drive etc but I'd really prefer to come up with a way of doing it off DVD like i already have setup. Here is the problem. We have Addonics DVD-ROM USB drives on our NON DELL machines that allow booting USB this again works PERFECTLY. however on the DELL machines they refuse to recognize the USB DVD-ROM as a boot device in the bios thus we can't boot from it. I have checked with DELL for bios updates they all have the latest bios this has made no difference in our situation. I have called Dell Tech support and am getting no where. I get either its not possible or we don't support that. I posted some questions in the DELL forumns and have been told DELL machines will not boot of USB CDROM however they will boot of USB FLASH or FLOPPY or HD. So a thought that entered my mind might be. Can I make a boot sector on a USB flash device that would imediatly boot the USB CDROM and continue on as it would on the other machines. I really don't want to have to make two diff methods of doing this. Has anyone else ran into this problem? Anyone have a better idea or solution or a way of making something like this work. Obviously from waht I'm being told the ideal situion of just haveing the USB bootable DVD-ROM is not going to work on those machines. Is it possible ot make a boot sector or something that would do what I'm asking for anyone know how or have any ideas what I might look for or into? If this is something that would need a propritary boot sector written and coded or a programmer to do. We are in fact willing to pay for his services.

I hae a bunch of Dell GX150 machines I have the unattened windows XP setup and everything works perfect just 1 question how or is it even possible to get it to automatically name each computer by the asset tag number durring installation?

Is there a way once I have my $OEM$ folder structure created to use this for more than one OS on my multiboot DVD without have to have a copy of it in each OS folder??? For example right now my $OEM$ folder resides in my Windows XP installation on my multiboot DVD rom can I make that same $OEM$ work for my windows 2000????

Actually I'm not so much worried about an automated install for linux. I"m more wondering how I would add say a Redhat distribution to my multi-boot dvd rom so that its also an option to install....

I'd like to see a guide or at least some ideas on this same issue. Anyone?

Is there a way to slipstream both CD2 for media center edition and the media center 2004 update onto one cd???