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ok here we go . I tried to make a winxp pro iso or cd ....whatever with xpcreate. everything seems cool untill it starts the slipstream then update exe "encounters an error and will be closed" . Do you have to be running winxp to make an xp cd with xpcreate?

OK cool so I am not crazy....ok maybe I am but anyway. played with the thing a bit got it to work now just one more problem......extracted the boot image from my cd(win2k) and used it for xpcreate....everything was cool untill (menacing music here) it tried to burn the cd. I thought hey no problem I will just use nero to burn it but no can do because evidently the boot image did not get into the iso and I cannot add it to the cd with nero and still burn an image. Any suggestions

I had that problem untill I figured it out look at your logfile....it is waiting for conformation to overwrite a file......just make the window active (blue bar) and hit "y" on the keyboard I would be willing to bet it takes off

I am no stranger to batch files and I have tinkered a bit with windows installations, even made oem pre installs back in the day. For some reason I cannot get xpcreate to work. I have been workin on making a cd for 4 days now and I am about to set my pc aflame and dance around as it burns. OK OK on to the problem...... First off I understood that on the first try of xpcreate it was supposed to download some of the fixes should you tell it to...Hooray I thought Not so I have done away and re-installed many times....all I get is empty folders. I can look past that just going to take some time(some = massive amounts). I even tried using the command line and the url in the xpcreate.ini to download the files manually(using the downloader) to no avail I thought hey stupid RTFM so I read help file after help file only to become more lost...the essential hotfixes as listed on ...well I think it is greenmachines site, has several folders I do not have, I added them, I found a posting on this site that lists the files a gentleman used. I downloaded them and spent a few hours on microsofts site, I have about half of them. My next bout of confusion comes from the cmdlines.txt and the winnt.sif, I have a friend who has created something like this before and he did not even use a cmdlines.txt. I can figure out the winnt.sif I think I just don't want to undo or redo something xpcreate does. I have no idea what to put into cmdlines.txt I tried to use files that I had already extracted to my drive(a cd dump of the files and an extracted boot.bin) but even after editing my xpcreate.ini it does not see them. now for the info basically what I am trying to do is make a win2k cd with the sp and hf slipstreamed while adding in drivers for my onboard raid( i would like to get drivers for my nic etc as well but I really just need the raid) I currently have all of the updates done on win2k I thought maybe I could get them from my hdd but that also failed. any help is appreciated......at this point just a point in the correct general direction would be nice