Aaron

Guys, stay on topic and don't post if you don't have anything constructive to say.

Your first 2 sentences are correct, I made this change in the guide because some people had probs (even though I didn't). but it won't eliminate the long wait at the 13min stage as hotfixes do take a while to install. The Rollup Update is due soon, and gosh has made a slipstream guide which works well (for the beta), so once its out I'll put the guide up. Slipstreaming the rollup takes no time at all, so the 13 min hang on a few other hotfixes not included in the rollup will only take a few mins.

svcpack.inf can be deleted if SVCPACK.IN_ is the compressed version of your svcpac.inf. SVCPACK.DL_ should be left alone.

Yes, you can also use remove commands at the end of your last batch file to automate this. But for some reason Drivers refuses to be removed, until next reboot that is. Nothing big anyway.

The other methods you've seen are scripts that will slipstream the extracted hotfixes into i386. The svcpack guide on site is just a simple hotfix batch, which is not slipstreamed. I'm waiting for them to finalise their script code before I link to them from the site for users who wish to try an alternative.

makecab is a compression tool included in Windows XP. Open Command Prompt and browse to the folder where svcpack.inf is: CD C:\XPCD\I386\ makecab svcpack.inf SVCPACK.IN_ delete svcpack.inf from the i386 directory.

The 13min part is where the hotfixes are being installed and can take a while. Usually takes a lot longer when you're running it in Virtual PC or VMWare

5 - here 6 - here 7 & 8 - In winnt.sif put in the following: [Components] msmsgs=off freecell=off hearts=off minesweeper=off pinball=off solitaire=off spider=off zonegames=off 9 - Remove the LANG folder completely. English works fine for UK and USA so far, not sure about AUS, but should be fine.

Which ones failed to install?

Why worthless? Not that i'd use qchain, but what makes you think there will be no more single hotfixes between the security rollup and SP2? The hotfixes compiled before Dec 2002 have a qchain problem, but now that we're getting the SRP very soon, that problem is eliminated, thus no need to use qchain.exe anymore. Unless MS make another tits-up of it.

Is it working for you though? Some guys are having problems in http://board.MSFN.org/index.php?showtopic=...=9407&st=10&hl= so I'm trying to pinpoint it.

Can't copy svcpack.inf? Might have something to do with how Notepad encoded it, or a bad burn. But try downloading mine and editing it. I've tested again using a fresh WinXP SP1 CD and followed through the guide and didn't get any problems at all. In DOSNET.inf I placed: [OptionalSrcDirs] svcpack under [Directories]

gosh, could you email me a copy of cdburn.exe and dvdburn.exe if they're not too big. Will add your script to the site if you don't mind. (aaronxp at MSFN dot org) b0r3d - With what I've heard about WinISO/UltraISO lately, I would recommend you don't use it anymore. I've explained in another thread but can't find it atm

nice work gosh

AFAIK, TClock works well on Win2k for changing the start button text on the fly. As well as theming up your taskbar a bit. http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/tclock/

already done, was editing the post

Yup, looks like SVCPACK.IN_ is being used instead of svcpack.inf, I've checked my original CD and found the IN_ there. When I tested it for some reason it wasn't there, odd. Anyhow, I've updated the page to mention this. As for bypassing the Create User screen, add UnattendSwitch="yes" under [unattended]. Computer names can differ from the one you specify in winnt.sif if there is already an identical computer name that exists on the network, causing Setup to randomly generate one instead.

Some of the files I've tested, such as UXTHEME.DL_, WINNTBBU.DL_ and NOTEPAD.EX_ (replaced with a metapad executable) doesn't prompt any errors during Setup. Setuperr.log shows the errors, but has installed the modified files anyway. As we discovered, some files will halt setup and some won't. I will need to make a working list of files that are ok to modify, as DaveXP has tested several of them.

hrm... out of curiosity, do you have a SVCPACK.IN_ in your i386 directory? Delete that. Are all the hotfixes in the chinese language, or english?

We deleted TweakNT, people shouldn't be using that conversion tool anyway. It causes to many problems, and I've asked for the TweakNT page to removed from the Win2k3 site. Sorry chaps.

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We install .NET Framework 1.1 instead

Yeah, good idea to start small. You'll be able to pinpoint problems easily and fix them before moving on to doing other things for an unattended CD.

hmm its not that hard really, its as simple as I could make it to be. But I've probably been doing this for too long to be able to tell whether something's difficult to do or not

That part of GuiRunOnce is to install the hotfixes that svcpack cannot do. svcpack.inf is automatically detected by Windows Setup so it needn't be specified anywhere else.