Alanoll

try using InstallRite. or AutoIt. I haven't tested it yet though.

no. you're just doing something wrong elsewhere. Though I would recommend you do install SP1.....

perhaps you need to defrag.... doesn't sound like it will work, but you never know... also, what parameters are you using to create the ISO? CDIMAGE? I've seen the error, and I only got it on a real install, never a virtual.....so it could be bad image burn (defrag error perhaps) or something is just messed up.

RC2 is right on the microsoft servers. www.microsoft.com/sp2preview

i dunno.... it might, it might not. they were supposed to include quite a number of things in SP2 that ended up being removed for the more security type features..... I know awhile back Spheris (works for MS) had a few of us work on coming up with as many errors using that method as possible....

when I had SP2 installed (RC2) there weren't any Critical Update......

yeah... bad burn or bad image it was burned from.... I've gotten this on a few of my Multiboot discs.....

what error did you get?

i added your file to SVCPACK.INF and it appears to work fine. The update didn't show up on WU and the file were the correct versions.

oh yeah..... still, instead of editing two sets of files, just edit one.... Rename the BOOT folder from WinXP to XPPR or something, and edit it's files to XPPR instead of BOOT like Gosh's guide says. Then just add the dat file to your CDShell menu. Then the CDShell files, go in BOOT without any editing. I made an error in the last post, CDSH was the folder it USED to be called, then the creators changed it.

nLite and then recude source isn't gonna save you all that much more space.... as for the boot folder, all those CDShell files, cdshw.com and the ini file and what not should be in a folder called CDSH.

basically, it'd be importing the RunOnceEX settings for Office at CMDLINES.TXT. That's it. If you currently are doing that, remove the command that starts the RunOnceEX process at the end of hte batch. RunOnceEX isn't meant to be run during Windows Setup, unless you start it, witht he rundll32 command. Otherwise it pops up at first logon.

it's either that or replacing the files elsewhere, and atleast this way we don't modify the original DX9 package.... Also, the DLLs are registered at about T-8 or something around tehre, in the finishing up stages....

why not just have the IExpress package extract to the directory? one less file.....

he's using an older version of CDSHell where the boot folder is still called BOOT, and accroding to Gosh's reduce source method, the new boot folder should be called BOOT.....hence where the problem arises. The boot folder does NOT need to be called BOOT, but it does nned to be called a FOUR letter word, and hex THAT into the files Gosh tells you instead of BOOT>

try leaving a uncompressed copy as well..... modifype might work, but i dunno.

oh....5 minutes should be fine....unless your system is like 233 MHZ. lol. You don't need the @ECHO OFF, but you can leave it anyways. The lines look file. The reason why it's AFTER shutdown, is because if you deleted %systemdrive%\Install and yoru batch is running it, the batch would end BEFORE executing the shutdown command. But that looks like.....

why do that? just add the two RD commands directly AFTER your shutdown command. You may need to increase the time slightly based on your system....

the developer of the package can alter NSIS routines so that /S is disabled. You'll have to either do a manual copy and see if that works, or you can use InstallRite or similar to create a silent install....

try installing it AFTER setup has finished. From the point RunOnceEX is meant to be run. Not during XP setup.

or you could do.... (background first) the flyakite guide partially uses teh Reduce Source method to get it's boot folders (end of background) alrighty then, you solved your boot folder problem. No jsut copy the other folder ~LS i believe to someplace in your structure, and point TXTSETUP.SIF to it instead of the original. Bravo, you're done.

also be sure to save in Unicode....

my install completes in about 26 minutes, but it installs almost 3 gigs of software..... Basically, this is more of a dynamic version of the static version we use here. So more appropriate to companies than individuals. As for Automatic Patch Installation, I can do that on my own, or use XPCREATE. As for Complete Silent Applications process, again, I can do that quite easily with a batch file or one of the other tools around.

thank's for the link, unfortunately...... unneccesary and wrong forum. Sure it pertains, but it truly belongs in the Windows XP forum, which already has a thread like this, and the links on the frontpage.

Hotfixes + DX9 is about 100 megs. XPC does download DX9 WMP9 MM and Messenger on it's own..... as well as SP1. But it only addes SP1 to the ISO if it's needed, in your case it wasn't. How large is your I386 folder created by XPC? It's inside CDROOT. But even a XP+SP1 disc isn't that much larger then the original and should have no effect on the output size.... in the end, it's all points to user error. You could prove me wrong and take some screen shots of your directories, and please include sizes.