buzzoff

Hello Ozzie (and others), first I must agree with everyone: this site is much, much more helpfull than Microsoft's pages regarding this subjest. However, I'm facing the same problems as Ozzie. Like him, I've tried many, many things. It could be that we are the only two idiots on the planet, it might also be that something else is wrong. In the various forums and manuals regarding this subject, I noticed a few things: 1) there doesn't seem to be concensus on the location of the $OEM$-files. MFSN says it should be put in the root-directory. However, Microsoft dictates they should be put in the I386-directory of the Windows-XP disc. (http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prbc_cai_pudt.asp) 2) apparently there is also confusion about the naming of the cmdlines-file. Microsoft says "cmdlines.TXT", some fora say it should be "cmdlines.CMD". Anyway, I've tried all possible combinations, but the cmdlines-file never executes. Like Ozzie, I'm pretty sure that basic mistakes like "OemPreinstall=No" etc. are by now corrected. Does anyone have a clue? Kind regards, Reinoud (NL)