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I found this to be the easiest for me. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=36086&hl=DOiso After you right click on a directory and choose bootableISO you can write the image to CD/DVD with Nero Express. Nero express will not create bootable disks on its own. At least as for as I've been able to tell.

Make the Windows XP registration with Microsoft unnecessary [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion] "RegDone"="1" Just takes care of registration not activation. And like you say the other methods don't work with SP2.

Why don't you try nLite?

My experience wasn't as bad as yours. But I decided to go back to 32bit XP because some of my drivers didn't have 64bit support. Otherwise it was OK. I'm running a Asus K8N-E DLX 3000+ with 2GB RAM I tried it with 1GB and noticed a slow down in programs loading.

cmdow.exe will do this.

If XP setup finds a winnt.sif file it won't show the repair option.

change unattend switch to yes

If you want it copied to your programs file just place it in $PROGS like this $OEM$\$PROGS\abc You may find this helpful http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/18/

after you install 32bit XP replace the NTDETECT.COM on your HD with the one from you XP64 CD.

If you have raid you'll have si3114r.sys. This is part of what I use in my txtsetup.sif. You should be able to figure out the rest. [HardwareIdsDatabase] PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112 = "si3112r" the last part "&SUBSYS_31121095 = "Si3112" is specific to a particular MB of card. If by chance the above doesn't work, you should be able to find the correct numbers in si3114r.inf. you'll see abunch of lines like %PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112.DeviceDesc%=SI_3112, PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_61121095 %PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112.DeviceDesc%=SI_3112, PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_611215D9 just put the second part of each line in your txtsetup.sif like PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_611215D9 = "si3112r" And don't forget put the files in the i386 dir.

[unattended] Repartition = Yes From ref.chm "Deletes all partitions on the first drive and reformats the drive with NTFS."

Don't know the cause of you problem but my DVD is at 4 GB and works fine. I use cdimage.exe to make an ISO. then use nero to write the image to my DVD. Maybe its your DVD writer or your media?

I use a combination of autoIT and vmcleaner to install it. its a wise installer which take a /S for silent installation. But the licsense agreement always pops up (Autoit) Then the program runs automatically (vmcleaner) I got vmcleaner from this forum you should beable to find it with a search.

No idea

Ah maybe the problem I had wasn't the same. I didn't have any ? marks but device manager listed manufacturer as unknown. Don't know if not having a cat file is your problem or not.

I was having the same problem (if I understand you correctly) under Xp Pro X64 after searching the Windows XP 64-bit Edition forum I found this salution. It was acctually for another controller but it worked for me with the si3114 controller copy your origanal setupreg.hiv from your CD to your HD start regedit and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, click the file menu and select load hive brouse to your setupreg.hiv and click open, you'll be asked for the name of a key, use any name you want and the contents of setupreg.hiv will be loaded below that key add the following keys and value [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\yourkeyname\ControlSet001\Services\si3114r\Parameters\PnPInterface] "5"=dword:00000001 when your done, choose file and unload hive. and place the modified file in your CD source

I had the same problem, fixed it after searching the forums had to edit the drvindex.inf and dosnet.inf files also DRVINDEX.INF [Version] signature="$Windows NT$" CabFiles=driver, driver32 [driver] SIWinAcc.sys Si3114r5.sys SiSupp.cpl SilSupp.cpl DOSNET.INF [FloppyFiles.2] d1,disk1,disk103 d1,SIWinAcc.sys d1,Si3114r5.sys [FILES]< second occurance d1,si3114r5.cat d1,SI3114r5.inf d1,Si3114r5.sys d1,SilSupp.cpl d1,SIPPD.inf d1,SIWinAcc.sys [ForceCopyDriverCabFiles] SIWinAcc.sys Si3114r5.sys SIPPD.inf SI3114r5.inf s13114r5.cat

Are you still getting the same error? Where is your cmdlines.txt file? it should be at $OEM$\cmdlines.txt If it is then I don't have any idea.

Idon't know for sure but my gut tells me it's this line. GuiRunOnce] "%systemdrive%\install\cmdlines.txt" cmdlines.txt is normally in the top of the $OEM$ dir and is called automatically when you have oempreinstall in your winnt.sif

I use this in my winnt.sif file to set my display res. [Display] BitsPerPel = 32 Vrefresh = 60 Xresolution = 1280 Yresolution = 1024

I don't know about your other questions, but stop a program from running on startup put something like this in a reg file. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] "AVG7_CC"=- just replace AVG7_CC with the programs you want to remove.

Nothing in winnt.sif will run a program on first boot of the CD. http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/13/ shows the timeline.

I believe "mybat.cmd 2>errors.txt" is what you want.

I just tried Ryans post SP2 update pack and also had missing files during text mode. But it was because I had allready integrated some of the post SP2 hotfixes. When I made a new source (as per the instructions which I didn't read the first time) with only XP integrated with SP2 the problem went away. Not sure if the same principle applies to Nlite.

You could write an autoit script.