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if its not too much trouble, could you post a list of the optimizations youve added? thx

you could exclude the a: and b: drive from the list. but i can see your point. well it was just a thought

you could try copying a text file to the root of every hdd like copy /y %DVD%\hdd.txt d:\ copy /y %DVD%\hdd.txt e:\ copy /y %DVD%\hdd.txt f:\ . . . and afterwards you look for it, like: IF EXIST d:\hdd.txt REG ADD... . . . this is similar to the method used to discover the driveletter of the DVD/CD drive. its propably not the best solution, but it should work

i may try this also, just in case thx again

thank you very much!!

i already downloaded both drivers, and referenced them in winnt.sif but im using vmware to test it all. maybe thats why none of these get installed, because vmware has a different video engine. are there any vmware drivers that i can use an include in my unattended installation?

after my unattended installation finishes the resolution under Win XP SP2 remains at 640x480 here is the entry in my winnt.sif [Display] BitsPerPel=32 Xresolution=1024 YResolution=768 i also tried to use this utility: 1365VidChng.exe but it gives me an error saying something like: "these values are not supported for this device..." i tried 1024x768x16@60 800x600x16@60 and a couple of other values. oh, and BTW i can change the resolution in the display properties dialog. any suggestions?

if you need to find another environment variable, type "set" to see all of them

i now ran into a few more problems, with the unattended installation... :sigh: after the installation finishes, and windows boots up for the first time i get the error :"at least one service or driver could not be loaded .... blablabla" after the entries in the RunOnceEX.bat file have been entered into the registry, and windows boots up for the second time, i get the same error again. plus windows fully loads the desktop, the start bar, the "manage your server wizard" and after all that it starts to execute the RunOnceEX entries. but there is more! during the installation of some programs, i get the error "fatal error in ntvdm" - "taskkill.exe could not be startet, because framedyn.dll was not found..." and a bunch of other error messages... also the resolution remains at 640x480 (it should change to 1024x768 - thats what i entered in my winnt.sif), the manage your server wizard starts allthough i told it not to start in the winnt.sif file. all that worked before. well, i guess i will have to wait until sp1 becomes final.

so far it actually seems to work! thx! but im really wondering what improvements they made to this file that im missing out on now...?

hmm, but why would they have different file sizes then? also the string "i386" was found 7 times in the new one, instead of 4 times as it was in the old one. well, i will try it anyway, and replace the new one, with the old one. we'll see if it works, i'll let yo know!

yes i created the bootfolders from a slipstreamed version of win2k3 with sp1. as for editing setupldr.bin programmatically - is there a guide on how to do that?

yes its just a release candidate. but i couldnt resist trying it i also dont think that they will change alot in the final version. from what i read it has pretty much all the improvements taht SP2 had for xp, plus active directory and other server specific improvements. btw i dont know if this is important, but i didnt replace the boot sector file (the*.dat one). is there a new one out anyway?

does anybody have any experience yet, in creating a multi boot dvd with win server2k3 SP1? i know SP1 has only been out for a few hours but still! i just tried to follow this guide: http://flyakite.msfnhosting.com/ but i encountered two problems. 1) when editing the setupldr.bin file and replacing the string "i386", it gives me the message "7 occurences replaced". is that ok? 2) when i boot from the DVD and try to start the installation, i get the error: "NTLDR is corrupt, the system cannot boot" i did replace the old "boot"-folder with the new one, of course.

thx for the hint, but i cant seem to find it

and how do you do this exactly? which program can do this (hide the cdshell files)?

i was wondering... since MCE is just an XP Pro with 3 additional .cab files afaik - how does the installer know when to install plain xp pro or MCE? i guess its propably one line, something like mce="yes" but where? does any of you know?

this link will make things even easier, as you wont have to run the update first: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/partnerpa...spx?prereq=true

Great, that worked. thank you so much!

is there a way to transform the search of xp to that of server 2003. you know, so that the first thing that is brought up is to search for files an folders? so i dont have to choose it first. and is it possible to stop IE from tagging downloads? thx

if the driver works with xp it will most likely also work with w2k3! just try it. point the wizard you use to install drivers to the directory where the inf file is. if its compatible w2k3 will automaticaly install it. if not, you can still try the "have disk" option. if this doesnt work too, open the inf file and enter a semicolon at the beginning of the line containing "classguid= {...." and repeat the first two steps.

in short: yes when using classic logon youll get a drop down box (its hidden at first, choose "more options" or something like that) that lets you select to where you want to logon to. "local computer" for example or "school", etc...

this is infact possible. youll need to extract the "drivers.cab" file of an xp (sp2) cd (its in the i386 folder) to a local folder. after that go to the device manager and find "other devices"->"unknown device". double click on it and choose to install a driver. now point the wizard to the folder you extracted the cab file to, and let it search. if this doesnt work youll need the corresponding .inf file for the infrared port, that tells windows which files to use. maybe someone here can help you with that. i also once found a step by step guide on how to do this, but unfortunatley i lost the url you could also try to insert a widows server 2003 standard edition cd and let the wizard search that disk for drivers, if you happen to have one that is. anyway, once you have the .inf file, and windows complains that it cant find a file youll still need to point it to the folder where you extracted "drivers.cab" to. i hope this hasnt been to confusing

you could try cmdow (http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/downloads.htm) to position/view the script window, you also may want to remove "@echo off" also since you are trying to copy the files to an admin share, make sure that the user the script is run on is an admin!

%username% is what you are looking for, or to be more specific: IF %USERNAME%==Name GOTO :BLA or IF %USERNAME%==Name COPY source destination that should do the trick (note: the comparison is case sensitive)