TerraFrost

i've been creating ISO's using Nero, but having to create a new ISO image every time i want to update a single line of winnt.sif or rename a directory seems a bit overkill. is there some ISO utility that will allow me to edit individual files, and place them back into the image? I tried WinRAR, to find out it doesn't write to ISO files, and WinImage, to find out that it can't insert because the image is full (whatever that means)...

when i try to install my unattended version of windows xp, i'm always rebooted, while the drivers are being installed (which, incidently, take a lot longer to install than i would expect). in the [unattended] section of my winnt.sif file, i have the following two lines: OemPnPDriversPath="drivers\creative;drivers\pvr250_22" DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore any ideas as to what's wrong? the section on device drivers on the main page says that the directory names should be preceeded by xxx_, but i'm assuming that's only done to make the OemPnPDriversPath var easier to set. is that an incorrect assumption?

the syntax of the commands in cmdlines.txt look no different from the commands in a normal batch file, save for that they have quotes around them. are the quotes necessary? and regardless of that, could the contents of the batch file just be put in cmdlines.txt, under [Commands] (and with or without quotes)?

as an update - i got it working and it did work, this time around, with DefaultHide. thanks for the help!

Changing "UnattendMode=ProvideDefault" to "UnattendMode=FullUnattended" results in an error because I haven't provided all the info in winnt.sif. I also don't want to provide all the info in it. I intend to use the CD on multiple computers, and like being reminded to set certain things. I just don't feel the CD key reminder is necessary, heh. I tried changing "UnattendMode=ProvideDefault" to "UnattendMode=DefaultHide", and it didn't work, either (although I didn't get an error). Of course, now I seem unable to use any sort of UnattendMode, without getting the following error: Line xx of the INF file \i386\winnt.sif is invalid Line xx is always an empty line after "InstallDefaultComponents=Yes". If I delete all empty lines, it is the InstallDefaultComponents line. any ideas as to what might be causing this? finally, i've been creating ISO's using Nero, but having to create a new ISO image every time i want to update the UnattendMode line of winnt.sif seems a bit overkill. is there some ISO utility that will allow me to edit ind. files, and place them back into the image? I tried WinRAR, to find out it doesn't write to ISO files, and WinImage, to find out that it can't insert because the image is full (whatever that means)...

i'm trying to to make a winnt.sif file that results only in removing the prompt asking for the cd key, during installation. it, unfortunately, doesn't seem to be working . here's the winnt.sif file i have, thus far: ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=1 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [Unattended] UnattendMode=ProvideDefault OemPreinstall=No TargetPath=\WINDOWS [GuiUnattended] EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 [UserData] ProductKey=XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX FullName="" OrgName="" [Identification] JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes any help would be appreciated - thanks!