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I initially was using wget & decided to see how else I could do what I wanted, not sure which I'll use yet to be honest, I'm still testing Wget Post: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=24317&hl=wget Personally I prefer the HTTP solution because an IIS running the SUS Server is normally present already and you don't need any authentication by default. So it is not necessary to setup and/or configure any additional service, just copy the file structure to your SUS Server and you're done. In terms of optimal usage of bandwidth I don't know which protocol is actually more efficient, http 1.1 or ftp.

Good idea. FTP is one possibility. HTTP the other one. Put wget.exe and unzip.exe in $oem$\$$\system32 and download a zipped structure from the SUS Server (which is an IIS that allows anonymous access using http). A SUS Server is present in most corporate networks anyway.

Version 5.1 (Build.2600.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158: Service Pack 2) which means that it was built on August 3rd 2004 21:58 So 2158 is two minutes before ten o'clock in the evening, NOT Build 2158. The Build is 2180, just take some DLL or EXE in %WINDIR% or in system32 and you will see.

Imaging is better because you can handle different hardware just as with unattended (just replace the hal.dll with DOS or Linux and you're done). Then again there ist the speed advantage of imaging. Still there are issues that make both unattended and imaging a PITA . M$ should FINALLY update their setupapi.dll such as it scans subdirectories. Integrating a large number of drivers has been a terrible mess since first version of Windows 2000. For 5 years now M$ was unable to add this feature... oempnpdriverspath=<dir1>;<dir2>;<dir3>...... ---> oempnpdriverspath=<dir1>

When trying to run the new SYSPREP on an XP SP2 it will keep telling me that it is not compatible. Version numbers: sysprep.exe 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) explorer.exe 6.0.2900.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) Any ideas???

Windows will manage to get the right driver. The question is if you copy all drivers in the same folder if there are no duplicate filenames..... Duplicate filenames will work if the files are identical at binary level, otherwise it will fail. WHY has M$ been unable to enhance setupapi.dll such as it will scan subdirectories for drivers.....???? This has been a serious problem since the first release of Windows 2000 and is still unresolved.

Tomorrow I will try the exact same thing with english XP Volume Licence Edition.

OK, now it works without any problems. Which means: With german XP Volume Licence Edition you have to slipstream SP1a first and then SP2 on top of it. Otherwise automated installation using i386\winnt.sif will fail. This is a bug because it means that SP2 does NOT contain all updates from SP1a.

Hm, but with SP2 on the original copy it fails. I've tried that twice already. Maybe there are issues with the winnt.sif file which I take unchanged from my automated SP1 installation CD. I just finished burning the new CD, I will run the installation now.

I already tried twice. And the Volume Licence Edition CD is an original CD from M$. Right now I slipstreamed SP1a and then SP2 and will recreate my automated installation CD and try again. Would be a bad thing, I don't know how to deal with SP1.CAB, can I just delete it? It eats up almost 10 MB :-(.

I just slipstreamed german SP2 on german XP Volume licence edition (without SP1). When installing there is an error message when trying to register the component Internet connection Manager. XP complains it cannot find 'icfgnt.dll' which is a file to be deleted during installation of Windows XP anyway (the XP version ist icfgnt5.dll). Any ideas?

This isn't a link, right? SP2 has just leaked to eDonkey ;-)

So you must be afraid of M$. Strange. Why would I be afraid of MS? I'm a beta tester for MS. If I was afraid, I wouldn't even use Windows. And if I didn't use Windows, I wouldn't be part of this forum! So if you're not afraid why don't you put the SP2 on some mirror and let somebody post the URL here?

So you must be afraid of M$. Strange.

What exactly is it you're afraid of? I don't think it will use up any of your bandwidth, right?

I d/l from that link but I'm wondering.... my bad, i think its the german version of SP2 RC2 It's actually RC1 (Build 2096)

Link to the german version, anyone...?

--------------> [GuiUnattended] --------------> AutologonCount=0 This is the mistake. Windows 2000 and XP will only autologin as many times as you set this value to, no matter what you write to the registry. So if you want to autologin twice, you have to set it to a value of 2. It is not possible to set it, for example, to 1 and then put the information for the next autologin in the registry. It then will NOT autologin a second time.