Lo everyone, I have been using this board for quite some time and there are some issues that i have with a recent build of an XP PRO SP3 unattended install DVD. Ok, what i wanted to ask is, how do you (yes you there in the corner) make the installation of your unattended install CD/DVD easier ? I'm doing this as follows and i can't help but feel that it should be easier .... * OK, i use an XPPRO with SP1 (havent got anything else) it is not an OEM but one i use here at work for all our clients so it can use the same key. * I integrate SP3 with nlite then install the image with vmware. * In vmware i will do a windows update in internet explorer 6 to view the needed updates. I print those updates out. * I download all those updates manually from the MS site. * I integrate those updates by nlite except for instance the microsoft genuine, malicious tools and those others that cannot be used with the switch /INTEGRATE. * I make a new image with those updates and install it in vmware. I do again a windows update and print out the next wave of updates. * I take the original image with the first wave of updates and integrate the next wave of updates with nlite. * rince and repeat * I integrate the AIO .NET and a modified IE8 package to install with the use of nlite. * install in vmware again and download the updates to integrate them. etc ... After that i only have 4 updates waiting (im not installing the windows search 4.0), those updates are : kb961118 kb926139 kb898461 kb969497 The disk is installing perfectly with all the updates , AIO, IE8 etc ... but not yet the updates mentioned just before. The moment i integrate one of those last updates (they all cause it) , be it with nlite or with the switch /integrate and install the resulting image in vmware it seems he reverts back to internet explorer 6 and does not display the list with installed programs anymore. (add/remove programs is completely empty while before it showed IE8 and the .net installations) But when i just install the working image without those updates and then do the windows update in windows XP itself all goes well. Am i goofing up somewhere in the sequence, or have you got other easier ways to make a new CD ?
