steve007

WOW! Amazing. I hope I didnt sound too rude up above, you know what I meant? I will await the chipset one and then problem solved. This means that basically any system should be 100% in business using all of your driver packs in an unattended install. Amazing. Congrats

As above what blinkdt said. I got mine to auto format fine just by reading the reference section on the msfn unattended guide winnt.sif file editing. However, the format takes all of 30 seconds rather than 30 minutes. I assume this is a "quick" ntfs format. Is there anyway to force a full long format or is this uneccesary?

Question 5 Why Not Try Just Adding Basic Drivers Like Video And Sound Only Then try adding More Later When you have that perfected. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks for the suggestions. I have not actually tried to do any drivers yet. Is there any difference between monitor,vga and graphics drivers or all the same thing?

Many thanks for your suggestions. I will try all of them with anticipation Can I just ask one thing.... these driver packs by bashrat the sneaky. I appreciate the massive effort he has gone to and do not want to in anyway sound unappreciative and arrogant, but what is the point in using his packs if he has not completed the chipset one yet? Surely this means that ALMOST everything is covered but then one still has to sort out the chipset drivers which are the most important and have to come first? Like I say, just wondering what all you guys do about this. Many thanks

Hi guys. Wow, what a fantastic forum. Has opened my eyes to so many new things I want to try! Becomming obsessed with the perfect install and customized windows now! Anyway, I have just performed my first unattended XPSP2 slipstreamed install. I have some basic experience with this sort of thing and have seen scripting in action, but am slightly out of my depth as I approach the later parts of the Intermediate section of the guide. Well...with just following the guide and reading up on the net about it, within a few days I have just created a full working slipstreamed UA XPSP2 install, with all the latest hotfixes/updates and all seems fine except: 1: I now notice that where my original WinXP disc was 700 odd meg, my finished CD (well DVD it had to be!) ended up at 950 ish meg!! I do not understand why this is. I mean yes, I have added a lot of updates/fixes to svcpack and altered .inf files etc, but why has it gone up a few hundred meg? Obviously SP2 = 272meg, but I though intergrating this didnt actually add that amount? If so, then how does one get it on a CD? Its not a major problem, in that I will have to use DVD anyway eventually as want to put othe rthings on, but I should get into the habbit of good housekeeping and reducing file sizes where I can. 2: I got only one error during setup, that windows setup could not locate a file named oembios. It might have been oembios.bin, but I honestly cant remember. I think because I used a Hewlett Packard Xp disc for my XP files, it may have copied accross a bios file perhaps that specifically applies to HP machines? i dont know. I had to press to skip the file to continue. then all was fine. 3: Upon entering windows I cant seem to adjust refresh rate of my monitor. it is locked on default refresh rate for monitor. I did set this in the unattended setup to default to default monitor refresh rate, but I still want others available obviously. 4: I am unsure how to intergrate RAID drivers into my setup. i have read all the guides, but find it a little confusing. Do I need to edit that file in the guide with the excat text used or change it around. 5: I am finding it difficult to add drivers to the install. I am unsure how to package them up. When I browse the CD, its hard to see what files I need and what things it will need to use and what goes where. Can anyone help with how to package p the drivers. 6: Can I encoporate gpedit.msc edits into my install? Like for example turning off the desktop cleanup wizard etc. also with reg hacks etc, I know you can import these somewhere to the install, but how does one do this and how does one find out the reg changes they have made that they want to use? 7: Is directxC included with SP2? If so is that it and nothing else need doing? 8: I have read about customizing windows to use diferent themes and look exactly like how you want it to. How can one go as detailed as getting it to look and hold settings exactly. i.e. Display prefences and things like that (the really picky bits!) Is this all again just registry imports? How does one find out the registry info required to reflect such changes? Apologies for long newb post. I would really like to learn more though and am eager to suss this all out. Many thanks for any help at all in advance. Much appreciated.