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dpurple77

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  1. !!! It is amazing that you went to all that trouble. Thank you very much for your time and effort. You are making this place a great community. I am about to finish my ubermultistick and i went with the solution of everything on one partition as stated before. Nevertheless when everything is done (because i still have some things to do) i will probably look into your solution if maybe i can upgrade my method a bit. Thank you again for your effort.
  2. Did anyone by any chance found out how this can be done? Unattended setup of xp sp3 without a cd key so it can be inserted on the first run? This is the only thread i have found regarding this topic. Any help appreciated.
  3. I kind of gave up myself. I have since this morning made everything again on one partition. It might not be pretty but it works, right? It would be cool if i could have everything in their place, but i don't plan on spending any more time with this. Thank you all very much. If anyone ever persuits this and finds a solution i would be happy to hear.
  4. Just wanted to say thank you. Its a bit late right now here. I will look into it in the morning. Although in first sight i am not so sure that this is the solution because after booting the boot.ini and choosing the option to install i get the red light by the file not found so it seems that the install doesn't even start so i don't think that it is a driver problem. I think that the boot loader cant find the install sources although it gets called by boot.ini correctly. Eyes bleeding, must sleep..... Thank you......
  5. Thank you very much for your suggestion. I had already looked in that solution and it is not what i want. The solution i ended up with is something that really suits me very much. If only it would work Any ideas why the usb_multiboot solution doesn't work from the second partition although it is active?
  6. The problem i am trying to solve is a little complicated. I have read so much that my head is going to explode. What i am trying to do is on a 32gb usb stick have one partition, the first as fat32 with wpi programs, portable programs, drivers and manuals and such which can be seen by windows normaly, a second partition ntfs with 4 flavors of window,s pro and home with driver pack and without, slipstreamed with hfslip, and some other partitions with ubuntu live and some other linux live disks. Of course i am using usb_multiboot which is the best thing after sliced bread and everything goes great if there is one windows partition with all the windows sources and the other data i want to have. You understand that the root of that partition is seriously crammed and is not practical at all. That is why i want to seperate them. The thing is that the data partition has to come first so windows can see it and my stick is not one that works by flipping the removable flag. Installing a driver so it can be seen as a drive is not so much an option because it has to be generic and work everywhere, not only on my pc. What i have done so far is create two partitions one fat32 and one ntfs and then delete the first so the partition table is correct but the drive is viewable by windows so i can format it with 64k cluster size which i read somewhere in these forums that is needed and use the great usb_multiboot to create all the sources. I forgot to mention that i am booting with grub4dos and not the ntldr boot loader. Grub loads great, everything else works fine, if i create the first partition and copy everything there everything goes smoothly except the installation of any of the windows. Grub loads, calls ntldr, i get the menu, i pick an option, and i get a "file copy error, press alt+ctlr+del to continue". Is there somewhere hardcoded the partition on the loaders of usb_multiboot so i could maybe change it to be the second? I think that, that must probably be the problem. Of course i am open for suggestions as i could very well be very off. Any ideas are welcome. I am really close to doing exactly what i want and i really have to work pass this little hickup. Thank you all for all the great work you've done and anyone for any suggestions helpful or otherwise.
  7. One thing you could try which will propably fix your multiboot cd is to overwrite the txtsetup file from your boot folder on your multiboot cd with the one from the final sourcess file. but i think that the best solution would be to recreate the boot forders from the final slipstreamed cd. thats the path i am taking today. i hope everything works fine for you....
  8. dpurple77

    Beta HFSLIP

    Of course there is nothing wrong with the script!!!! I can't find the smiley that bangs its head on the wall. the problem was that i didn't make a standalone cdrom for testing but overwrote the source of my multiboot dvd with the output of HPSLIP. of course the boot forders where the old ones and generaly everything else was from the structure of my mulriboot dvd. That takes care of the missing sp4.cab. the txtsetup file my unettended used was not the one that was created by hfslip but the one from the boot folder. anyone that has done a multiboot dvd knows what i mean. i am very sorry for posting for something so dumb. i am just really really dizzy from all the time in front of the monitor. on the standalone cd everything worked flawlesly. but what did the wrong boot folder had to do with the version of IE i have no idea. Now everything is fine. i am just missing a security update from dot net sp1. thnx for the help Oleg_II and murvun.
  9. dpurple77

    Beta HFSLIP

    :hello:Oleg_II. I was just about to post my ERROR_REPORT.TXT but you beat me to asking it. It would be kind of hard for anyone to troubleshoot without it wouldn't it?i figured that sp4.cab and drivers.cab where merged but souldn't there be some other change in an inf or something so the oper sys doesn't ask for sp4.cab? My problem is not that sp4.cab is missing but that windows request it during install and it halts for it. I am fo course installing unattended because i am already in the 10th install and you know how things go... I just love installing windoze!! As for the MSN it just doesn't install because the requirements are not met. if have tried it without it also. the only difference is that the install just doesn't halt for it. IE is still 5 sp4. Thank you for your prompt answer. ERROR_REPORT.TXT
  10. dpurple77

    Beta HFSLIP

    hi everybody. i am using version 51030 and i am having some issues with w2k. it seems that the driver file sp4.cab which is created by service pack 4 is being deleted by the slipstreaming process propably with the recompression of the driver.cab file. i don't know if this is as it should be but windows requests the file during install so something goes wrong. everything works fine when the file is restored to the final i386 by a back up kept right after the service pack 4 integration. another issue is with the internet explorer 6 slipstreaming which just doesn't seem to work. i have the correct cab files in the HFCABS folder and i can see the slipstreaming process as the script is running but my sliped msn messenger halts during its install at the t13 stage because it says it cannot continue without ie6. and true enough when windows boot ie is at version 5 sp4. i have tried this several times with w2k both english and greek and got the same issue nomatter what. maybe i am missing something? are there any ideas of what could possibly go wrong? any help greatly appreciated. thank you for a trully wonderfull script you gurus...
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