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@allanoll I didn't know what /qb and /qn did and I really tried hard on google to find what it did and it's not an easy task. I finally found it after about 1 hour of searching, maybe a "basic dos knowledge" page should be added to the unattended guide, I still don't even know what's the difference between /y and -y, sometimes I have to use /others - sometimes it does not matter... But I really don't think you were rude and I was still able to complete my unattended (well can it sometime be complete? adding 7zip, updating softwares or virus defs..) @fourte3n Jaclaz is right and allanoll is one of the most helping and kind guy on this forum (in other forums they don't even bother to answer you...) and I think that if you are trying to do your own unattended cd you must learn to try things, and trying /help or /? is the basic. When this does not work, and you looked on google and could not find any helpful sites, then you can post something here and people (well some of them) will be glad to help you out WHILE teaching you at the same time, you must be receptive

Since I installed SP2, it happened 2 times now that the LAN icon appears in the tray, telling my that a network cable is unplugged and blablabla. The thing is it's totally false, and the proof is that I am here doing this post. So I'm wondering, is it my network card that starts to do freegames and then comes back ok while windows doesn't know it, or is it windows doing freegames believing that my card is unplugged while i am surfing the web and chatting on msn...

Thanks for being so nice maxXPsoft cause big poppa pump and other frustrated geeks are often taking their time to answer bitchy thing, or to answer some basic question without taking the time to read the post or even complaining about orthograph like everyone here could speak perfect American English. It's not because you are good in something that you don't have to help others and I really dislike this attitude that existed long ago now in computers: "if I discovered it myself, any stupid newbie around here should work his a** and find it themselves". This attitute is selfish and does well represent our post-modern, individualist world of "I don't care". This forum is about helping people out, I am no programmer nor scripter, I am no tech info guy from a big company, I am and normal, simple, end-user, like there are others here, with some passion and skills to learn a bit from the others, others who like to share their work and give tricks. People like idle.newbie have been here for about a weekend and he already helped lot of people, while others like big poppa pump (I'm not saying your not helping!) seems to think they were the avant-garde here and I always see them bitching people. Thanks to all the cool people here like MaxsoftXP, Mazin, idle.newbie, big_ie for their devoted free times and their patience. @pump btw if you have noticed this site is starting to adapt itself to newbies, offering more guides, more threads linking them to the right information AND THIS IS ALSO GOOD TO OLD FOXES! I now how to edit the registry but **** it when I see a post with 98 pages and lots of bs and code repeated, I too want to start a thread with my simple question to get it answered...

I did not take the time to read through all that other post idle.newbie posted but I can't understant a thing in xml and this looks so much more complicated. I hope serialz get the drvz.exe working soon. There must be helpful hints for him on that topic but for a normal user like me, OemPnpDriversPath looks easier to do than any .xml file.

Nope it did not work, well maybe it's vmware though, gonna test it with OemPNPDriversPath to check the difference

That did it! thanks.

Still had trouble with my choice command, will try with his full path... But I think I did not see any drivers installed, but they were copied on the drive. Will try again with the new files right now

use nlite and compare and fill all settings tabs I'm not home right now so can't show you my winnt.sif. But try nlite and you can have a normal installation. For the 1st question, if i remember correctly you can press R or something like that at the beginning of installation...

Please take time to read before saying anything useless, i'm not that stupid. Read my entire post

@serialz I'll switch to VMWare and test the new file. I'll tell you the result asap. @idle.newbie "SetDevicePath.exe" ? isn't supposed to be DetachedProgram="%SystemRoot%\system32\DRVZ.EXE" ??? that's what the guide say.

I tried with the choice.com in that folder, and in the same folder as the batch file. in system32 windows tells me it can't run it for an unexplained reason, but when directly in the same folder as the batch file, it worked perfectly on my pc but not in virtual pc

I want to add the CHOICE command to my unattended install so it reads like this ;CHOICE /C:YN /T:Y,60 Voulez-vous installer les logiciels de base ;if errorlevel 2 goto cleanup ;if errorlevel 1 goto apps ;goto apps Now it works in a real windows sp2 environment but when run during unattended installation, it does not install the apps. I tried getting around that adding the goto apps at the end in case he gets an errorlevel other than 1 or 2 but that did not make it. Anyone got a solution? And don't tell me to remove the ";", I added them to continue to test my installation cd... thanks in advance

Utopia... or how a good idea can be as bad idea... Looks like it takes about and hour and a half to compress the appz folder... From 166Mb it got down to 149 I guess idle.newbie was right and it's not usefull at all to do this

@serialz For the appz thing, don't get into complicated matters, just get the .exe to extract the files like it does with Driverz, for examble $OEM$\Appz would get extracted to %systemdrive%\Appz, just like the drivers, and a batch file in $OEM$\$1\Install\hotfixes (for example, cause there will be hotfixes to add one day...) would normally get copied and executed by winnt.sif, and in hotfixes.cmd after installing the hotfixes (if there are at the time, which is not for now) could launch applications.bat (my usual apps installation batch file now in %systemdrive%\Appz) so the installation goes on normally I hate going into complicated RunOnceEX and stuff like that I don't understand I think my way should be the simpliest way do to it since appart from renaming the path to the applications.bat and inside applications.bat to the new location, everything would be the same but with more space left on the CD

Yeah, I was tinking on adding it to my apps but I need more space on the cd... @serialz could you compile a new exe that looks for Driverz AND Appz folders in $OEM$ and then. if any of those exists it would un7zip them in C:\Driverz and C:\Appz. Thus saving a tremendous amount of space on the cd to put more applications and good stuff And since we found a way around, is the file setting the drivers path still necessary if it doesn't work? You could even take that out of the slim package while still working on a large package for those users with a maxed out OemPNPDriversPath line. Maybe you could ask nuhi how he does it with nLite (98.8 has driver integration included), I did not try it but the comment show a good percentage of working drivers installation. The second paragraph is really optionnal, but the new EXE for Appz would really be a major improvment for unattended cds Thanks

This looks complicated to me... why not compile another exe that looks for $OEM$\Appz 7.z and .cab files and uncompresses them to %systemdrive%\Appz. If the exe was a batch file I could have done it myself, but I don't even know which of the 3 files we installed does what...

I also noticed you put the dictionnary size to 48 while default is 32 with ultra compression and you maxed the word size to 255... why? (just being curious here, nothing important)

Just wondering, would there be a way to also compress the $OEM$\$1\Install\Applications\ folder so all our apps would take less place on the cd but could still be ran afterward using normal batch files in the last [] section of winnt.sif (I got a very bad memory for names) but you get my point I guess... The only thing to change would be the Driverz folder, lets call it Appz

GREAT JOB LUCIUS!!! gonna test it right now and post back in a day since I'll also try the nLite 98.8 tu get rid of a SCSI error while installing Daemon Tools. But I don't want to use his included driver integration cause it's a new feature and maybe still have bugs. I keep fingers crossed but I'm confident it'll work perfectly

For #1 yes it is that exact key. I tried it with a 1 and a 2 at the end but in both cases it gets back to 0 as soon as I open Folder Options and for #2, thanks, I'll try it and post here if it works, just give me a day or 2 since im starting back from scratch to test nLite98.8 And thanks for your reply

The worst part is that I often get the feeling i'm doing all this for nothing. Installing NAV pro 2004 worked fine, but I wanted the auto liveupdate feature I heard we could use with packager. Now I installed corporate 9 and I still have to manually live update. I wish the mythic packager will solve all my questions but for now I have to wait At least I am learning new stuff during that time, and I still saved 30mb installing corporate edition instead of pro. The only difference I noticed yet are the graphics are not the same and the Recycle Bin is not protected. Anyone ever tried the packager from 8.1 and lived to tell the tale? EDITED 4 hours later: I guess not...

RegShot is good but you need to reedit the values before adding them to a .reg file which can be very long for hex strings. But I recommand it to everyone, it's fast, simple and free. BTW registry freaks, I got 2 good questions for ya in my post here

Ok so that operation is done before OemPNPDriversPath considers the updated files? That would be perfect. I would get the extracted 7zip files and windows would still consider them when he installs driver. Did you do something specific to make it work or simply followed the instructions like everyone else but added the OemPNPDriversPath back to winnt.sif?

Well, I guess so cause mine looks like v2.0 not 2.5 the link is as followed ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/francais/li...e/lu_2.0_fr.zip But the renaming method worked perfect with v2.0 EVERY FRENCH USER SHOULD BROWSE THROUGH ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/francais/ to find their files and BE CAREFUL to download the Symantec Antivirus CE v9.0.0.1400 FR (WITHOUT b, 9.0.0.1400 FRb) The version with a "b" at the end is no beta but is for licensed versions, the one without a "b" is the one you need here. (mazin did you corrected the link I sent you yesterday?) And for anyone new to this post, the guide you need to follow is hidden somewhere in those 15 pages, say Hocus Pocus and it should appear Don't forget to edit the code to fit the french names of the files you downloaded!

I hope I get a star like he does for LOOKING FIRST ON OFFICIAL SITES, before saying anything untrue like "packager is discontinued" if it was discontinued it would not be on the CD no harsh feeling about this buddy