Tomcat76

I'm sorry I couldn't be of more help.

Well... This is going to be difficult. There are pre-alphas available of HFSLIP 2.0 ("HFSLIP 2.0 in the works" thread), and it does almost everything from the hard disk; the only things that will still be performed from CD are Type 1 hotfixes in HFSVCPACK_SW1, Type 2 hotfixes in HFSVCPACK_SW2, and *.cmd files in HFSVCPACK. The same thing is already done in HFSLIP64, and the reason behind this change is to better support network-based installs. I want to support as many scenarios as possible, and your wish would actually make things worse in that respect. Why is it so important to you to have everything done from CD?

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They can be slipstreamed too. I see you only have msconfig.exe in [KeepFiles]. When you run HFSLIP first, you need to put the content of NEWBIN.TXT in nLite's Keep box. There's not much more I can do. I don't develop nLite and I don't know the program.

I'm sorry... I don't understand that. If nLite is run first, does nLite create SVCPACK.INF? Yes/No... I'm only asking because I want to know for sure that HFSLIP is not overwriting anything nLite does (in your case).

Hi gazzat5 It doesn't really matter because HFSLIP doesn't do anything with it. Either put it in SOURCE\I386 (to have it to begin with), in REPLACE\I386 (to have HFSLIP automatically copy it into the SOURCESS folder without "polluting" your original source), or in SOURCESS\I386 after HFSLIP has run (if you like to do it manually).

The time zone plugin was updated with the newer versions of tzchange.exe for XPSP2 and XPSP3. The Sri Lanka time zone is now also displayed in the correct position (as was already the case for the plugin for HFSLIP64).

Does nLite create SVCPACK.INF when it's run first?

Verify that LegitCheckControl.dll in LegitCheckControl.cab is from 20-Mar-2008. To my knowledge, KB905474 is not (yet) needed for Windows XP SP3.

And does everything work when you use ONLY HFSLIP 1.7.6rc7 (no nLite)?

Which version of HFSLIP are you using? Does everything work when you use only HFSLIP 1.7.6rc7 (or newer)? Does everything work when you use HFSLIP 1.7.6rc7 (or newer) plus nLite?

Can you remove ProgramAddons Notepad++ 4.8.5.cab and ProgramAddons Spybot Search %26 Destroy 1.5.2.cab? I'm not sure if the first is problematic but the second most surely is.

That's the only solution. And then use the Media Center 2005 rollup updates. That still leaves us with resurrecting WMP10...

Uhm... Make that rc7. There was a tiny bug in rc6... That's what happens when you work on HFSLIP 2.0 at the same time, heheh...

I tried your scripts and see what you mean now. You provided an HFSLIP.CMD file that wasn't made by HFSLIP 1.7.5. That's why I was confused. This problem should be fixed in the next version, but you can already try HFSLIP 1.7.6rc7 from the test releases thread at the top.

I don't understand what you mean. I just checked your HFSLIP.CMD file for a third time and the code that you claim is missing is not missing. It's all there.

It's the same version. The executable's size is the same, the time stamp is the same, and all files within have the same date. The problem with IE7_INST.EXE was that the SP2 binaries weren't force-copied. HFSLIP 1.7.6rc5 only did that when IE7 was slipstreamed. This problem should be fixed in 1.7.6rc6.

Does it work if you change the extension to msi?

Uh, yes... The default one: slipstream. This is done by not specifying IE7SVCPACK or IE7GUILOGON in HFANSWER.INI. But leave that for now.Is everything OK if you remove any IE7 updates from the HF folder? What the RC of HFSLIP 1.7.6 is doing with IE7 updates on XP SP3 isn't really favorable as eryen pointed out above. We're five days away from the next Patch Tuesday so I will just let the final HFSLIP 1.7.6 handle IE7 updates as usual.

I don't see a problem there. Are there any errors in C:\WINDOWS\setuperr.log after installation?

I don't know if you realize this, but if chkdsk reports bad sectors you should return the hard drive if it's still under warranty. You should always do that immediately after buying it. If you have disk errors, it's highly unlikely you'll get HFSLIP to work properly since a lot of disk space is used during the HFSLIP run.

It's not as simple as that. I found a sysoc.inf for MCE inside the SP3 package (it's named sysocmce.inf and it's in the i386 folder). Editing TXTSETUP.SIF and DOSNET.INF is easy, and adding extra hives to allow installation of the MCE-specific programs shouldn't be too hard either. But that's where the good news ends. There are 20 new Media Center binaries (not "updated", but "new" binaries) for the MEDIACTR.CAB package, so a source HFSLIP can work with can't be created unless HFSLIP were to rewrite medctroc.inf completely. This would require a lot of code, and languages with double-byte characters wouldn't be supported. The updated Media Center binaries require .NET Framework 1.1, which is not included in SP3. So they can't be slipstreamed, actually. This is the reason why HFSLIP doesn't slipstream the *MediaCenter2005*.exe updates. MS could've copied the OC install version of .NET 1.1 from Server 2003 but they haven't. Slipstreaming SP3 replaces existing WMP10 binaries with WMP9 binaries. It will take time to find out which ones are to be restored, and how.

Can you ZIP and attach your HFSLIP.LOG file? Are you letting HFSLIP slipstream IE7 or create a new IE7_INST.EXE package?

OK... Can you combine the following files into one ZIP file? I need the files created by nLite. I386\SVCPACK\HFSLIP.CMD I386\DOSNET.INF I386\SVCPACK.INF I386\SYSOC.IN_ I386\TXTSETUP.SIF