seandarcy

OK. I got it to work. If you click through the insert XP Pro CD-ROM message you find it's wanting the asms file ( which is actually a directory, and is on the slipstreamed iso). After some googling, this appears to be an XP / kvm problem. XP doesn't effectively store it's install source path, it continues to revert to d:/i386, which doesn't exist on a virtual machine. But close the XP instance. loop mount the kvm xp.img file with some trickery: mount -t {ntfs | vfat} -o loop,offset=$((63*512)) kvm-xp.img /mnt/loop-mnt $((63*512)) = 32256, 63 sectors of 512 bytes. ( it's a miracle what google finds ) Now that the kvm image is mounted, put the whole i386 directory in the image. umount the image. start the virtual machine. When setup asks for the location on either the sp cd-rom or in install cd-rom, give it c:\i386. It takes some time ( since it keeps reverting to d:\i386 ) but it'll work eventually. BTW, now you can use that image file as a virtual machine wherever. sean

1. Removed "Windows" from WIN51IP.SP1. I didn't leave it empty though. I saw win51ip.sp2 had CR/LF. Did the same for SP1. 2. After nLite did the integration of sp2, edited TXTSETUP.SIF: ...... [sourceDisksNames.x86] 1 = %cdname%,\win51ip,,\i386 2 = "%cd2name%","%cd2tagfilei%",,\cmpnents\tabletpc\i386 .......... Did the same for LAYOUT.INF 3. Searched and replaced both for ,_x, with ,, . BTW, BE CAREFUL, search for comma,underscore,x,comma - don't forget the comma after _x or you'll get a message that "the .SIF file used by Setup is corrupted or missing" - I did. 4.Searched and replaced both for 100, with 1, ( =100 doesn't work because sometime space(s) between the = and the 100 ) 5. And now I get: Please insert the Compact Disc labeled "Windows XP Professional CD-ROM" into .... So it's not asking for SP2 now, but the install disk. ( Remember I'm using an iso image to install on a kvm virtual machine.) Any help appreciated. sean

I've got a XP-Pro sp1 CD. win51ip.SP1 is damaged on the CD. I get an i/o error when I try to copy it. So I copied everything else, and recreated win51ip.SP1 by copying WIN51P to win51p.SP1. Ran nLite to make an iso with sp2. I pointed to the copied xp-sp1 directory with the fixed win51ip.SP1. No errors. top dir of new iso: AUTORUN.INF DOCS README.HTM SETUPXP.HTM SUPPORT WIN51 WIN51IP.SP1 cmpnents I386 SETUP.EXE SPNOTES.HTM VALUEADD WIN51IP WIN51IP.SP2 All the WIN51* files contain "Windows" except for WIN51IP.SP2, which is empty. but on setup in a kvm virtual machine, I get the dreaded "insert SP2 CD" message. Any help appreciated. sean