iamtheky

Answer trips question and you may get a bit more help. What video card are you using? What is the version of the driver? also are you running open gl or direct 3d> if its an nvidia card try this forum, its an old thread but a good start. http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t19396.html

mine are in the -i386\$oem$\D\software so the users have local copies in their d:\software as well. I also ran into issues where if you installed something from the disc path, it would prompt the user to reinsert the media when making modifications to the application's install. determined it made life easier to let the install copy them over then execute them from the local disk. You could probably get away with putting them anywhere browsable as they follow 8.3, think it will just be ease of use and maintainability as driving factors.

followed shortly by biased opinions, nice. and you would also have to add the words 'datacenter' 'advanced' or 'enterprise' as 'standard server' does not acheive anything over the 4GB mark. Also a good article on PAE and /3GB switch. http://russkaufmann.spaces.live.com/Blog/c...g!229.entry

If you are burning a disc then loading the disc into a VM, you are not by chance mounting that disc in the VM settings are you? That would seem to cause issues. Have you used just the iso to load the VM and seen similar behavior, or just set it to use the host CD drive rather than mount the disc?

I do them from the runonce or cmdlines with silent switches. This way my customers will have the ability to uninstall the items via the control panel. REG ADD %REGKEY%\001 /VE /D "installing dot net 3.5" /f REG ADD %REGKEY%\001 /v 1 /D "%path%\dotnet35.exe /q /norestart" /f REG ADD %REGKEY%\002 /v 2 /D "net stop msiserver" /f REG ADD %REGKEY%\003 /VE /D "Installing Windows Media Player 11" /f REG ADD %REGKEY%\003 /v 3 /D "%path%\wmp11.exe /Q:A" /f REG ADD %REGKEY%\003 /v 4 /D "%path%\KB954154.exe /passive /norestart" /f

what about disabling power management from within the BIOS?

Nlite does make more changes to the install than a manual slipstream. I would go manual unattended, with your minor modifications to the source it will not take much longer. http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/ I would take their source, and use the integrate switch for sp3. For the driver portion: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=72125 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=94068 *****everything below may very well have be overkill, but the only way it worked for me***** I got mine to finally stick by referencing in the winnt.sif, txtsetup.sif, and dosnet.inf and copying all driver files into the textmode folder and then copy the .sys into every root below (source i386, $oem$, $$, and then ran makecab on the sys in i386)

are there not keyboard shortcuts? on my dell Fn+arrow keys control screen brightness/contrast.

Well Johnc's going to beat you up for nlite-ing a previously n-lited source. But you should just be able to change the BIOS setting for the SATA controller to 'ATA mode' or something other than the AHCI, and get beyond your current state. I would recommend adding the SATA drivers via BART PE. I slipped my SP3 into an SP2 source manually, i know that functions ok.

what happens if you unhide message queuing and IIS? Since they fall under application server I would think it would have to then show up.

check the dll versions after you have slipped the items? I have never had an issue with M$ overwriting newer dlls with older versions, it usually provides a nice dialog.

You can always use a branding file. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305604

"Creating an ISO from my Disc, and using nLite to integrate WMP v.11 & IE v.7.0 into an image that already has SP3 in it will not work" umm do them from the runonce with silent swtiches? you should be able to install wmp11 then run 936782 and 954154, then uninstall IE7 and drop on firefox

I may be peppering the wrong target, but I'll keep taking shots "just use the FileInstall to install the file to the @TempDir and then use FileMove() with the flag set to 9 (Overwrite + create folder structure) to put the file where you want it." - using that you could call the file from where it was moved to via a batch and tag a self delete to the end of the autoit. http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/lofivers...php?t19404.html -installing alcohol from the batch silently with /qn /REBOOT=ReallySuppress or -delete the autoit from the end of the batch -because it should have finished as soon as it executed the bat

Post your .au3 and desired output. Trying to decipher what you want from generics is brutal. not totally, it means that it is wrapped into your executable in its current state. I have a specialized backup autoit that utilized fileinstall=ntbackup ntbackup is inside my exe, and is usable on windows systems regardless of if ntbackup is accessible or even present in the win32 folder on the target system.

http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_sea...=mp3+tag+editor any of these 6000+? edit: ahhh Nlite thread, shouldnt deter you from just throwing one in the runonce if its suitable.

use the 'fileinstall' command. http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/f...FileInstall.htm and google translate

No, I was just ribbing you. Its good info and would be much more efficient if everybody was doing both at the onset, it should just be stickied to the top of every thread in this section in large bold letters imho.

@ponch you can rest assured that johnc will post that to every thread in the Nlite section, i imagine its bound to a key (purely in jest) "attach yer last session, start with a clean i386" as a post should be earning stars independent of the author :

thats the force for the 'reg add' command, so if there is an existing entry the user is not prompted for overwrite.

http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t49569.html http://windowsxp.mvps.org/userpath.htm

I install it from the runonce REG ADD %REGKEY%\013 /VE /D "installing office 2007" /f REG ADD %REGKEY%\013 /v 13 /D "%path%\MSO2007\setup.exe" /f

does it install manually (or throw a different error when run post install) on the x32 system? You arent by chance installing x64 exclusive pieces in your automated install (office forms x64 - sharepoint server x64)?

4GB minus peripheral and system allocation, naturally. My cards are so antiquated I can still free just under 3.5 Very true though on most of the more modern systems i support,and judging by the OPs hardware 3GB will probably be all thats left after the system allocates its share. But that is by no means a reason to go with less, because if you put in 3GB its still going to take the same allocation and leave you with around 2GB free.

"PAE is the added ability of the IA32 processor to address more than 4 GB of physical memory. The following operating systems can use PAE to take advantage of physical memory beyond 4 GB: * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server * Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition" -1 the confusion probably arises because: "Although support for PAE memory is typically associated with support for more than 4 GB of RAM, PAE can be enabled on Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003, and later 32-bit versions of Windows to support hardware enforced Data Execution Prevention (DEP)." -2 1) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283037 2) http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platf...PAE/PAEdrv.mspx