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Hi! I just want to say that WPI is simply great! Been reading about it a long time and when I finally plunged in last week, I wish I tried it a long time ago. Many thanks to the developers of WPI!

@SM: I thought HighmatCD Wizard is no longer needed?

you can use switchless installers for .net 1.1 and 2.0. you can make your own or download ready-made ones available in other forums here in msfn. at any rate, put the switchless installers for .net 1.1 and 2.0 in HFSVCPACK (along with other apps you want INTEGRATED) and it will be installed at T-13.

Latest Final is 1.1.0 (HFSLIP Final

...will be testing asap, thanks for adding this feature.

I believe MS06-061 contains updates for MSXML3 (KB924191), MSXML4 (KB925672) and MSXML6 (KB925673) while MS06-71 (KB928088) contains updates for MSXML4 (KB927978) and MSXML6 (KB927977) only, according to FAQ section of MS06-071. Moreover, KB924191 contains MSXML3 binaries which are neither in KB927978 nor KB927977...

I don't think KB924191 should be removed. It's a hotfix for Microsoft XML Parser 2.6 (all versions) and Microsoft XML Core Services 3.0 (all versions). MS06-071 says that KB927978 and KB927977 (replacements for KB925672 and KB925673) applies to Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 and 6.0. But then, that's how I understand MS06-071... I may be wrong. Also, I think 918899 is replaced by the latest cumulative update for IE (MS06-067)

congratulations, the_guy!

Count me in. I agree that it's easier to have few STORAGE_*.INI files.. It's much simpler that way, I think.

thanks for the info and the links

my vote goes to smaller individual database per hardware... that way: users just copy the appropriate one depending on their hardware to HFEXPERT\STORAGE or they could copy all databases, especially if they are creating universal CD/DVDs

am typing this message on freshly installed XPSP2 hfslipped with 61017b and everything seems okay...

No problem, glad I could help.. BTW, the latest storage.ini and HFSLIP 61016a works perfectly well for me in integrating my SATA drivers. With regards to filling up the database with more drivers, I think we can use BTS pack which offers a lot of SATA drivers. All the information needed to put records in storage.ini are in the INFs.

"out-of-the-box" the latest HFSLIP and this method didn't work for me and text mode portion of setup cannot find my harddrive.. after fiddling with it for a few hours, I found out that the problem is with the database (STORAGE.INI) I had to change the line particular to my storage driver in the [HardwareIdsDatabase] section from: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C5&CC_0106.DeviceDesc = "Intel® 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller" to: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C5&CC_0106 = "iastor", "Intel® 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller" the reason is because this line will call the corresponding line in [sCSI] section which in this case is, not "Intel® 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller" (which doesn't exists), but: iastor = "Intel® 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH7M)" perhaps it also true for the rest of the database. the records in the [sCSI] portion must match the records in the [HardwareIdsDatabase]. PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C5&CC_0106 = "iastor" would suffice, but then in the text mode portion of setup you will see: Setup is loading files (iastor)... so putting PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C5&CC_0106 = "iastor", "Intel® 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller" , you will see a more descriptive message in the text mode portion: Setup is loading files (Intel® 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller)... One more thing, it didn't work with ".DeviceDesc" in it so I had to remove it... ".DeviceDesc" doesn't appear in any record in the original TXTSETUP.SIF. with that, perhaps we just need to change STORAGE.INI to reflect the same changes as in my case and, maybe, other scenario would also be okay. otherwise, the HFSLIP script to slipstream the storage drivers was perfect!

Yes, I saw it also on a post here somewhere but can't seem to find it.. so I thought a new thread might spark interests about it being removed from our list..

(BTW, I have Intel AHCI SATA Controller) I never bothered with the other files provide with my SATA controller but I only used 3 files: iastor.inf, iahci.inf and iastor.sys (makecabBED and modifypeD); Then I added the following entries: In DOSNET.INF: [FloppyFiles.2] d1,iastor.sys [strings] iastor = "Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver" [Files] d1,iastor.sys In TXTSETUP.SIF: [sourceDisksFiles] iaahci.inf = 1,,,,,,,20,0,0 iastor.inf = 1,,,,,,,20,0,0 iastor.sys = 1,,,,,,3_,4,1 [HardwareIdsDatabase] PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C5&CC_0106 = "iaStor" [sCSI.Load] iastor = iastor.sys,4 [sCSI] iastor = "Intel® 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH7M)"

I manually 'slipstreamed' my SATA drivers a long time ago but might try this method within the week..

HFSLIP message for KB898461 processing is no longer scary..

It seems MS no longer considers KB905474 as a required/critical update. I've never slipstreamed it and WU always 'complained' about it not installed. But for some time now, during my recent builds, WU no longer ask me to install it... so maybe, it should be removed from the recommended updates, perhaps?

I'm having problem installing MS SQL Server Management Studio Express since I started slipstreaming the new package/update for MSXML6 (msxml6-KB925673-enu-x86.exe). I think it's a problem with Management Studio Express itself not detecting MSXML6 because SQL Server 2005 Express was able to detect MSXML6 and installed properly. Anyone else using Management Studio Express? Maybe within the day, I'll try, as a workaround slipstreaming the original MSXML6 package (msxml6.msi) then silently install the update after Management Studio Express is installed... or if I have a leisure time, install SQL Server 2005 and Management Studio Express as application addon thru HFAAO.. ish!

wow, thanks.. will test after the weekend..

Because the UPDATE folder contains three needed binaries as well as an installation INF file for the registry modifications HFSLIP doesn't show this because you'd see something like: file1.ref 1 File(s) copied. file2.ref 1 File(s) copied. file3.ref 1 File(s) copied. Pretty ugly personally, i'd like to see those "ugly" messages.. as I like to dump the whole HFSLIP process screen messages to a text file so I can always review what HFSLIP did. i think it's prettier than "0 File(s) copied" which is quite alarming.. just my two cents.

POST DELETED: so as not to confused new users on an unsupported feature.

QUESTION: Regarding the latest changelog, UsrExcHF1 is only for hotfixes that are "not recommended" in the sense that it's not in Tomcat's and the_guy's lists? because everything that's in those list are all correctly handled by HFSLIP?

That's how I understand it also.. I already tried it and everything was slipstreamed okay.