jaclaz

Sorry, I am really not sure I get what you would like to do. An image containing more than 4 Gb of data will probably be something like 4 Gb big, won't it? If I understend the problem correctly, a possibility could be making a disk image 3.99 Gb in size, mount it with either filedisk or VDK, format it as NTFS compressed, then create the DVD file inside that partition. All info you need for making the above can be found on these threads, though seemingly unrelated: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...19056&st=40 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...c=19333&hl= jaclaz

@Rhadamanthys Take it easy, mate. ANY Microsoft OS that does not come from Microsoft's own servers, from an authorized re-seller or OEM is WAREZ. And here at MSFN we have some rules, here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=18408 of which the interesting one is #1: Now, as no one likes being banned, this kind of topics are NOT welcome. I trust you on your word that you might not have realized that Windows XP is Copyrighted material, as said in the first result for your given search link: but you won't get any help here in using/installing a pirated OS. jaclaz

Well, Mojopac is nice, but it is an alltogether different thing, it is just a way to make your desktop "portable" between systems that already run XP. See here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=86954 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=85569 Also, the "XP on usb stick" is NOT necessarily "portable" between different systems, if you need something that is "guaranteed" as portable, you will need something more like BartPE/Reatogo/UBCD4WIN/Winbuilder, i.e. a PE based system on the stick. jaclaz

You won't see it in the top part of Disk Management until you have a letter assigned to it. So, if you right click on the partition in the lower part of Disk Management you don't have the option to attribute a letter to it? As I see it, there might be different reasons for this behaviour: 1) Something "wrong" in the "DosDevices" section of the Registry 2) Network drive(s) already mapped to the same letter already mapped for that device in "DosDevices" 3) Some Vid&Pid entries in the USB section of the Registry 4) Disk seen as "Removable" (instead of "Fixed") and partition not being the first one. First thing I would try is this software: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html if it solves the problem, no need to find the reason for it. jaclaz

I'll throw in my personal choice: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/fr...eware/edxor.htm jaclaz

Actually that one, like all the other ways generated from this thread: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=14181 DO work, tested and confirmed. A list of the methods is in this post of mine: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...181&st=1988 If I may, do start with the fully automated one you can find here: http://www.usboot.org/tiki-index.php However, the whole thread and methods are for install and run XP on a USB stick, not for installing from it, which was the OP question. jaclaz

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You are welcome. jaclaz

Well, of course you can do it BOTH ways, i.e. add an entry in Grub4dos for the two os and boot from it, or make some changes in autoexec.bat to have a choice when 98 boots. You need either CHOICE.COM (included in DOS/Win9x) or CHOIX.COM, see here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=81722 In your case will be something like this: ECHO Which OS do you want to load? ECHO. ECHO 1. Puppy Linux ECHO. ECHO 2. Windows 98 ECHO. ECHO. CHOICE /C:12 /N Please choose a menu option (1 or 2): IF ERRORLEVEL == 2 GOTO :SKIP IF ERRORLEVEL == 1 GOTO :PUPPY :PUPPY CD "C:\your directory" go.bat EXIT :SKIP ::put your normal autoexec.bat lines here: ..... ..... ..... win.com You will need to edit MSDOS.SYS as to start Win9x with no GUI: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article07-021 BootGUI=0 Or you can use the CONFIG.SYS method: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/text/Loadlin+Win95-98-ME (just think as your "go.bat" as the "linux.bat" referenced in the howto) jaclaz

Batch is already done, here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...ic=1659&hl= (as said, 2K/XP/2003 only, sorry) jaclaz

@Brando569 If you would have cared to actually read the link I gave, you would have seen that it is not a command prompt replacement, but rather a visual improvement to it. And this makes 260 views, no thankyous, and 2 "unfriendly" replies to this thread.... Guess that next time I find something nice I'd better keep the info to myself. jaclaz

Not yet, still have to find the time to "invent" or "find" a way to avoid (or restore) the deletion of files. Yes. jaclaz

@Pirates Thank a lot for the link to the .pdf. Strangely enough, it refers to this page: http://www.usb.org/developers/tools as source of the info, the "Company List" file "usb.if" , apart having "peculiar" separators appears to be made in decimal values rather than in hex. Thus you won't find "1516" in it, unless you import it in an a spreadsheet and convert dec to hex, and besides the list is ordered the "wrong" way (using dec numbers as they were text). I guess the info contained in the usb.if is "Public" so that if I attach here a .zip file containing the data in a spreadsheet, with hex conversion and ordered BOTH as Vid and alphabetically, easily searchable, it would be ok. On the page there is the recommendation to always download latest usb.if because " this list changes almost daily" but I guess that with this file one can consider himself "reasonably" updated. I'll think about making a small batch conversion tool to .csv.... EDIT: Ok, done, it can be found here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=1659 (unfortunately for all diehard Win9x users it requires Win2k/XP) About the entries in .inf file, do download the 98 driver from Valgear: http://www.valgear.com/WIN98/PD1-SK6201.rar and get them from there. jaclaz usb_vids.zip

I cannot say anything about VBS, but if it was batch files I would make three of them and call them with a "START /WAIT" one after another, I am sure that something similar can be done as well, or even better make just one file that accepts as parameters IP of port and name of Printer and call it three times with "Start /WAIT" changing parameters at each call. jaclaz

Check this also: http://winner.windowsdream.com/ jaclaz

@eDOC With all due respect for a "Clinical Neurologist", I guess your attitude could be a bit more friendly. From your posts it appears like you were not able to use nlite properly and now you denigrate it without a real reason, and by the way giving no info that could possibly help brokenwall. @brokenwall Really it is very difficult to help you if you just report "it doesn't boot" or : To be able of (hopefully) help you, we need EXACT errors you get, NAMES of the services not starting, etc. As suggested on the other thread, nlite is a VERY ADVANCED piece of software, that allows for making things that are not possible with "standard" tools, and like any of these kind of softwares it needs some PC and Windows knowledge background and it has a steep learning curve. Some general suggestion I can make: 1) Get yourself some CDRW's 2) Try making just a slipstreamed build, with no other change 3) test it on a VM 4) burn it to rewritable media and test it on real hardware 5) If it works, make another build removing (or adding) just some (a group of) entries and loop back to step 3) until you find it not working 6) Partialize the items you removed or added und loop back to step 3) until you find the culprit jaclaz

NO, these files are only needed on the active partition (the one that normally is C:) io.sys, config.sys and COMMAND.COM are the system files for DOS/Win9x/ME, unless you had a dual boot you won't need them. autoexec.bat and config.sys are, as said, DOS/Win9x/ME files, and they are NOT needed for booting. config.nt and autoexec.nt, are NT files, but they are as well not needed for booting. Please note that if you have different versions of NT based systems, the NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM must be of the LATEST version you have (they are all backwards compatible, but usually NOT forward). jaclaz

Needed files are listed here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=33030 And yes you can just copy them over, though I cannot say if the problem will be fixed with just that (I mean, from the report you made there is no way only these files could be deleted, it is possible that you still have some kind of partition corruption) In case a similar occasion happens, do use TESTDISK: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk it is VERY good for recovering partition info. jaclaz

Yes, it is possible to replace those files form Server2003 SP1 or later to have added benefits. DO read here, new ideas for both PE and "full" XP: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=19333 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...19056&st=19 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...ic=1145&hl= jaclaz

Yes, that is exactly what can be done (together with other things) by the MBRfix app linked to before, which runs under 2K/XP/2003. No need to boot into DOS. jaclaz

@Pirates No, Lexar is out of the "game", the post on 911CD I referred to was a sequel to a few e-mails I had with wm_raim, wher he cleared that he was trying with TWO sticks, one a Lexar With Vid 05DCh and Pid 0080h and the other one the GXT with Vid 1516h Pid 8628h. Sorry for the mix-up. Usually the manufacturer of the chip has his own Vid/Pid, when he sells his product to the makers of the flash stick, he gives them an utility to change Vid/Pid to that of the stick manufacturer (if he has one), as a cascade, when the stick manufacturer actually tests the stick he has the option to insert the Vid/Pid (if any) of the Commercial company that has the "Brand" name and that actually sells the stick on the market. Acquiring a Vid is relatively easy and cheap: http://www.usb.org/developers/vendor/ while the Pid is an internal code, that in some cases is "meaningful", i.e. OtI sticks have Pid 2168 if they use chip 2168, Pid 6828 uses chip 6828, etc., but as soon as they developed various versions or "updates" of the chip, it agains loses significance, as an example, if I recall correctly, there is a "F" version of the 2168 and a "G" version with added features that cannot be distinguished by Pid. Given the above it is easy to envision a scenario where Vid can mean: 1) Chip manufacturer (most of them) 2) Stick manufacturer (I think few of them that payed the $2000/$4,000.00 fee) 3) Commercial vendor of stick (I think still fewer that payed the $2000/$4,000.00 fee) About speed, I cannot say, but the reference to 23x on the cnmemory.de site could be related to the 23.1 Speed on the skymedi site? Speed of a flash device appears to be something "unmeasurable" without a standard, however the Ratio between 31.1 whatever for Read Access and 21.3 whatever for Write Access seems just not right Check these: http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2549 http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/flash.ars/1 http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/flash2005.ars for a speed comparison and to see how much speed is influenced on size of what you are reading/writing. In your case I think that we fall in point 1) above, where two different commercial companies, valgear with its brand GXT and cnmemory with it's own name offer on the market sticks that mantain the Vid of the Chip manufacturer (and use the chip manufacturer driver for Win98). jaclaz P.S.: Sorry if I am somehow hijacking this thread....

The "particular" CD's hat apparently have more than 800 (or 850, and there are even, very rare, 900 Mb ones) use a technique that is only possible if the SAME files are in several different directories. As said, CDIMAGE/OSCDIMG.EXE or mkisofs can make such disks, nothing really "magic": http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=49821 jaclaz

Wouldn't using DEVCON be possible/easier? http://www.robvanderwoude.com/index.html http://www.robvanderwoude.com/devcon.html http://www.robvanderwoude.com/files/getdevdj.txt or using rundll32 PRINTUI.DLL? http://www.robvanderwoude.com/2kprintcontrol.html To find real devices you can use a "side effect" of the DIR command: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/isdev.html Open a command prompt and try: DIR LPT1: (a valid port) and DIR LPT3: (a NON valid port) and see the difference jaclaz

You are welcome. jaclaz

nlite is for XP vlite is for Vista Homepage: http://www.nliteos.com/ http://www.nliteos.com/faq.html jaclaz