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After a few hours, I finally got Knoppix v3.7 running flawlessly off of my AIO-DVD (which includes UBCD4Win v2.41, which uses Bart's PEBuilder v3.1.3). For me, it came down to one simple problem: The 'Knoppix' folder in the root of my AIO-DVD was marked as 'hidden'. I hide the 'PRO1', 'UBCD', 'CDSH', etc, folders to make the DVD 'look' nicer (only my Setup and Software folders and a few files are normally visable). Hiding the 'Knoppix' folder causes Knoppix to give the error message: [code]Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry. Dropping you to a (very limited) shell. Press reset button to quit.[/code] I hope this helps some of you. For those of you new to this thread looking for a quickfix, this is what I did: 1. Download KNOPPIX_V3.7-2004-12-08-EN.iso from [url="http://www.knoppix.net/"]http://www.knoppix.net/[/url]. 2. Open this file file in WinRAR. 3. Extract the 'boot/isolinux' and the 'KNOPPIX' folders to the root directory of your AIO-DVD. 4. Add the following line to cdshell.ini: [code]if $lastKey == key[3]; then bcdw boot /isolinux/isolinux.bin[/code] 5. You may mark the 'boot' folder as hidden if you like. 6. Do NOT mark the 'KNOPPIX' folder as hidden.

The component section is really the only need for my attached file, but I figured that I might as well post the whole thing since its (mostly?) complete. I've heard this, but I don't know which ones are questionable? Do you?

I thought others might like a good example of a complete unattended.txt file. I took a decent amount of time commenting the Components section using ref.htm, so it would be easy for anybody to decide what they would like to include/exclude in their WinXP installation. I hope people find it useful! This file is designed to be used during an unattended installation of WinXP-Pro-SP2 (and designed to be viewed using a fixed-width font, with word-wrap disabled) (2005-01-10_23:50: File has been updated - a minor error, "dtcnetwork" didn't have an associated "=off") (2005-01-11_01:43: File has been updated - a few minor changes and some additional notes added to the Components section) WinNT.sif

I believe that you must specify a drive letter for ProfilesDir, where as for ProgramFilesDir or CommonProgramFilesDir, you don't need to. Or at least that has been in my experience of getting a custom ProfilesDir to work! It confused me during a few test installs. I have included the relivant portion of my WinNT.sif file that has worked on numerious WinXP-Pro-SP2 installs: [Unattended] TargetPath=\WinXP ProgramFilesDir="\WinProgramsInstalled" CommonProgramFilesDir="\WinProgramsInstalled\~CommonFiles" ... [GuiUnattended] ProfilesDir="%SystemDrive%\WinUsers" ...