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I Used Nlite to do/integrate the hotfixes....the option was there, i figured it was best.

*Cross post from the nlite thread which is getting about the same activity...* yes, to boot from CD i manually have to do so..by hitting F12 at post screen...im not stuck in that type of loop, the loop occurs AFTER i chose my partition, formatted it, and it reboots to continue into the install (the 39 minutes of bliss..network, time, date, etc....) when it makes that reboot, it gets to some screen that just says "Windows Install is restarting" - BAM! restart...loop!..... So thats where it left me.... All i did was use nLite to integrate SP2, All Hotfixes, and Create a bootable CD....im not using an scripts, or even an answer file. reason for whole project: I just wanted to do this because im getting tired of putting on each hotfix manually when i i get brand new dells in for work, and they need 40 updates out of the box...also....WTF is with the Windows Update...most updates fail, hence me manually doing them...i have heard that M$ is claming its because machines arent faast enough to handle doing the updates online, so they have to do them manually. This is a load of crap..unless ofcourse multiple Dual Core machines are too slow to update... PS: I have created unattended Install CD's before and not had the problems...though this time around i get stuck in this loop. Can people please throw some ideas at me... ( known bad hotfixes...? )

yes, to boot from CD i manually have to do so..by hitting F12 at post screen...im not stuck in that type of loop, the loop occurs AFTER i chose my partition, formatted it, and it reboots to continue into the install (the 39 minutes of bliss..network, time, date, etc....) when it makes that reboot, it gets to some screen that just says "Windows Install is restarting" - BAM! restart...loop!..... So thats where it left me.... All i did was use nLite to integrate SP2, All Hotfixes, and Create a bootable CD....im not using an scripts, or even an answer file. reason for whole project: I just wanted to do this because im getting tired of putting on each hotfix manually when i i get brand new dells in for work, and they need 40 updates out of the box...also....WTF is with the Windows Update...most updates fail, hence me manually doing them...i have heard that M$ is claming its because machines arent faast enough to handle doing the updates online, so they have to do them manually. This is a load of crap..unless ofcourse multiple Dual Core machines are too slow to update... PS: I have created unattended Install CD's before and not had the problems...though this time around i get stuck in this loop. Can people please throw some ideas at me... ( known bad hotfixes...? )

I used nlite yesterday for the first time in a while. However, all i wanted to do was integrate SP2 and all the Hotfixes with my XP install and do an install like that. No Unattended scripts, nothing special. Once i finished with Nlite to get all the stuff in the install, i was able to boot, however, when the install reboots after initial phase and wants to go into the setup screens..it just says "Windows setup is restarting" and gets stuck in an infinite loop. Any Ideas? Is there a better way to do what i need to do? I tried doing it all manually and creating a bootable CD..but every time i created a bootable CD, it would say to me "Please insert Windows XP Pro CD into Drive A:" after the initial boot to setup..... Thanks in advance, Sean Cliff Note: I am able to Format, select partition and all, after that reboot is when it goes into a loop..

I used nlite yesterday for the first time in a while. However, all i wanted to do was integrate SP2 and all the Hotfixes with my XP install and do an install like that. No Unattended sscripts, nothing special. Once i finished with Nlite to get all the stuff in the install, i was able to boot, however, when the install reboots after intial phase and wants to go int othe setup screens..it just says "Windows setup is restarting" and gets stuck in an infinite loop. Any Ideas? Is there a better way to do what i need to do? I tried doing it all manually and creating a bootable CD..but everytime i created a bootable CD, it would say to me "Please insert Windows XP Pro CD into Drive A:" after the initial boot to setup..... Thanks in advance, Sean **EDIT**: I am able to Format, select partition and all, after that reboot is when it goes into a loop..