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They don't have to be..... but security wise, it is better to install them at SVCPACK.INF at that point there is no internet connection so you can't get infected by the lastest viruses/holes that are fixed by that patches. You can install the hotfixes when ever you want...just up to you.....

because it's one that GM uses

he's installing from CD i think....he just didn't put it all in a subfolder...

though you have it working..... these are the programs I can eye, that won't work.... REG ADD %KEY%\001 /VE /D "Intel driver" /fREG ADD %KEY%\001 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\start\INTEL\setup.exe -s -f1 setup.iss" /f REG ADD %KEY%\002 /VE /D "nVidia driver" /fREG ADD %KEY%\002 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\start\NV\setup.exe -s -f1 setup.iss" /f REG ADD %KEY%\020 /VE /D "ACDSee 6.0" /fREG ADD %KEY%\020 /V1 /D "%CDROM%\install\ACD.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\025 /VE /D "Sun Java 2" /fREG ADD %KEY%\025 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\install\SunJava\j2re-1_4_2_02-windows-i586-p.exe /s /v/qn" /f REG ADD %KEY%\030 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\install\fgf.exe /S REG ADD %KEY%\032 /VE /D "nVidia Screen Saver" /fREG ADD %KEY%\032 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\install\NBL\setup.exe -s -f1"%CDROM%\install\NBL\setup.iss" /fdo those not install at all? I'm betting no. and this one REG ADD %KEY%\030 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\install\fgf.exe /Scould be screwing up your last 4-5 entries as well..

you do have FULL QUALIFIED paths in all your calls right? like %Systemdrive%\athlonxp.exe or something..... (AthlonXP or any other of your archives need to be in $OEM$\$1 so they are copied over during install, THEN you extract them) %systemdrive% is defined BY windows. You can't create your own in Winnt.sif . Sorry. judging from this.... userexcute="CMD.exe /K athlonxp.exe"youre not using full paths and probally have athlonxp.exe in what...i386? thinking that it would work?

does the thing work even in a VirtualPC? I honestly didn't understand the whole "Microsoft Image" thing. or the "expands itself into and image on my screen" how are you calling CDIMAGE? You're trying to install XP Professional right? Did you ever alter DOSNET.INF or TXTSETUP.SIF? By "Microsoft Image" are you refering to the boot sector? I've attached the one from XPCreate.....might help, but then again, I'm not understanding half the stuff you're saying besides the thing doesn't work. XPCTBOOT.BIN XPCTBOOT.BIN

oh goodlord yes.... could you imagine adding all those lines like you have in your package (RyanVM) to the txtsetup.oem file and then HOPING it all works....

if RunOnceEX.inf is called FROM C:\Windows as in that's where it resides....the i think %1% should become C:\Windows

press <CTRL><F10> sometime during setup, and see if the files are even extracted properly. That's always a good place to start. And it's been my expierence that CMDLINES.TXT doesn't like variables. So you might ahve to create a batch file along side CMDLINES.TXT to call your RunOnceEX.cmd file.

go to flyakite's website... flyakite.msfnhosting.org and it's pretty much the same as ERD Commander. Don't know the specifics, but it's pretty much the same.

bad image burned. I get this a few times in my VirtualPC, and i usually just restart the process, and it works fine. and to improve your english Windows Setup could not install the product catalogs. I believe is the English setup equivalent. But yeah, usually just a bad burn or the image was loaded wrong.

you could go with that method.... in your XML file..... add the Reg command to load %DefaultUser%\ntuser.dat (i think that's the right varialbe), if not you'd have to find out what variables are available. then in your regtweaks that you want to put in the DefaultUser , change all the entries from HKCU to HK\Default or whatever you load the hive to. then unload it. It might, worth a shot.

you can't use system variables in an INF / RunOnceEX. they just won't work. you're probally using SET to enumerate %CDROM%. %CDROM% is no longer existent after the batch you call to enumerate it exits. if you were to use %CDROM% you would need to define it in the [strings] section, but then it would have to be constant. use a batch file for the copy IF EXIST D:\Win51.IP SET CDROM=D:(and so on for that, as far as you want) XCOPY %CDROM%\I386\*.* C:\Windows\Install\I386 /S /V/ C/F /H /Exclude:C:\Windows\System32\NoCopy.lst EXITthen in your INF file.... HKLM,"%RunOnceEx%\install20",1,,"%1%\CopyBatch.cmd"%1% comes to the directory that the INF is called from.

i believe the one on the MSFN website is a universal XP/2K DX9 package. it's from the OEM website, and both files are the same. it's called DX9NTOPK.exe

well.... how many different configs are there? each is probally going to take it's own XML file right? each with a unique name? what you could do....is create a batch file to run from cmdlines.txt TITLE Loading User Configs IF EXIST %SYSTEMDRIVE%\setup\xplode\dd4550.xml GOTO DD4550IF EXIST %SYSTEMDRIVE%\setup\xplode\someother.xml GOTO SOMEOTHER :DD4550REGEDIT /S dd4550.reg (or whatever you call)GOTO END :SOMEOTHERREGEDIT /S someother.regGOTO END :ENDEXITthat's a workaround, and just from the top of my head....

all I'm going to say, is you didn't read the rules. unattended.msfn.org read there, then come back.

T-9 : The default User Hive is no longer loaded. It's more like in the shutting down phase of a normal computer, so any settings in the User account most likely won't take effect. for the user settings, go back to T-12

I personally never used it to begin with. Most of my programs didn't require anything this drastic, and if it did, I was too lazy and just did it manually

wow. that's cool. I wonder which one that guy downloaded then. If you looked at teh guide, he should ahve gotten that one.

yeah...he set ResourceDir on his own.... as for the \ , doesn't really matter. Strange how Microsoft is picky about one thing, but not about another.

MSFN didn't host it.... That link pointed to XtremeMac's website......maybe they changed it.

don't know how it'd be an addition, as most of them have probally already been reported, just changed to INF format. to test it really easily, just add it to the section in Txtsetup.sif that loads the hives, add the entry for where it's supposed to go in txtsetup.sif and add the entry to DOSNET.INF and then during the blue part of setup, if there is any syntax problems.....it will let you know

follow the same method. the udpate most likely has a MSP inside of it. do an Admin install of Acrobat, then use the same command as for OFfice, and see if it works.

haha definately owned

@[bM]Crusher yeah.....this is true.... it works mighty fine for a sysprep install, but not unattended. Real shame. Spheris (he works for Microsoft) awhile back had a few of us try and work up as many errors as possible in relation to using that method. It may get fixed in SP2, but probally not.