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i would personally like an option to not have it install at all.... like through one of the component lists or something. I don't see why i should waiste resources on something like that, when I have it all intalled anyways. Pitty SP2 used a bit more resources then SP1.

mount the iso you created using Daemon Tools or Alcohol first, then have VirtualPC use that emulated CDROM as the drive int eh virtual PC. See if that works.

i believe that was an example from someone's runonce file shoing you how to use it. the reasoning behind cmd.exe /C is that XCOPY is a MSDOS command that can only be used form the command promp. cmd.exe /C sends a line of batch code to the command interpreter. It'd be like creating a batch file, but this is only doing one line instead of creating a whole nother file. Everything after that is the command you want to run... %CD% is current directory. You may wish to change that to reflect what you want to do. %allusersprofile% is a variable pointing to the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\ directory on your harddrive. XCOPY usage is... XCOPY (file/directory to copy from) (file directory to copy to) for what the switches mean, open a command prompt and type XCOPY /? and it will tell you everything.

GreenMachine.... the problem with you're little tip of looking for prior posts by you, is that you went back and editing them removing what you said I remember looking for information on it, and you ended up just PMing me about it. lol.

rather then starting over from scratch (I'm betting won't be the first time ) you could try posting your Winnt.sif file (the file created by Setup Manager in the deploy.cab file on your Windows XP CD) and if you're lucky, we could prolly get it working without you haveing to start over. But In general...... Unattended applications go in a $OEM$ (you have to create this) in the same directory as your I386 folder. Inside there create another folder called $1. EVERYTHING you put in this folder will be copied to the SYSTEMDRIVE during installation. So if you're installing Windows to C:\ , $1 will be C:\. The most important for this is that OEMPreInstall=YES is inside your Winnt.sif file under Unattend (i think so anyways, perhaps a different seciton). As greenmachine said, XPCreate is the easiest way to get the hotfixes done. Click the image on his signature. The page you want is the Downloads and Current Hotfixes. Download those hotfixes from the Microsoft website (or head on over to the XPCreate forum, and someone has a tool to download them for you, but I think they're all english so you may need a different language). Put them in the folders according to the Current Hotfixes page, edit XPCreate.INI to point to the CDROM drive with your XP CD in it (your original one), then execute XPCREATE.CMD. Wait 30-40 minutes and inside CDROOT you have a XP structure with hotfixes and everything ready to be isntalled wth nothing else to modify. Follow the Creating CD Image page on the Unattended website (the link you've already been to) for instructions on how to make the image, and thne burn.

oh my god..... have you even attempted to read? check the links in my profile, specifically Unattend Website. When you got what you need come back, as without it you can't put it into the XML format. The driver's may not install anywayz in an Virtual Machine because I know atleast the Catalyst requires the ATI card to instlal, and the virtual machine won't have it. Do try to search/read then ask.

you may want to use cmdow to hide the window. You have to download, and you can get it from unattended.msfn.org and it will hide you dos window

i tried expand on the attached file and it said the file was corrupt. so either i downloaded it wrong, or maybe you need to re-makecab it

the batch file will work, I don't know about the carrat's though. but if you use a batch file, be sure to use start /wait when you execute the command

quotes are neccessary if there aren't any spaces in the command lik... %systemdrive%\Batch.cmd but would be neccesary for %systemdrive%\Temp Folder\batch.cmd but since we're talkin about GUIRunOnce and not an INF, nested quotes are just that, nested quotes. You shouldn't need any special stuff. so like "%systemdrive%\test.msi /ADDLOCA="asdsaf;dslgfjgfdgdfgjh" /qb"

did you have to post twice? um... did you makecab the file to get the winntbbu.dl_ file or jsut rename it? YOu may also want to leave an uncompressed copy of the file as well.

is that how GUIRunOnce is supposed to be for your setup? I'm just asking because in XP GUIRunOnce Unattended, it's just the command, no description.

ic.... is that meant to be a registry key of somesort of something?

um... i think... [DefaultInstall] "StorageServer","msiexec /i c:\stage\sasetup30.msi ADDLOCAL="""BackEndFramework,WebUI,NAS,SetDateAndTime,Set_Language,UsersAndGroups,NetworkSetup,Logs,SystemB ackup,AlertEmail,Shutdown,RemoteDesktop,SysInfo,ScheduledDefragmentation,ShadowCopyManagement,UPS,Fo ldersAndShares,Services,DisksAndVols""" /qn" however that won't work in an INF unless you have another section in the INF call it. Addreg or something similar.

nope. lol. the official one is /S and something like /SQDFA or something like that. The latter doesn't work. They're suppose dto be fixing it 3 versions ago.

what's not supposed to work? the svcpack.inf file? or installing the hotfixes? or his file?

a better thing to do would be to create properties for each component, and have them in all UPPERCASE and then make them install if they are true. then when you release the MSI, the end user can type winamp.msi /VIDEO=TRUE /AUDIO=FALSE and winamp will install with Video support, but not Audio. Or is that too complex for ya X?

ah, well even in that sense, the svcpack.inf file still needs to be int eh i386 directory of 2003 i believe. also, i think you need to change the build numbers as well this is the example svcpack.inf from Microsoft's website that is for 2003 [Version] Signature="$Windows NT$" MajorVersion=5 MinorVersion=2 BuildNumber=3790 [SetupData] CatalogSubDir="\WS2003\Foldername\svcpack" [ProductCatalogsToInstall] KB######.cat [SetupHotfixesToRun] KB######.exe /options I think Windows_NT is right, but it's the build numbers that you're missing/wrong

i personally go confused when you went from Windows 2003 to WinPE. the svcpack.inf file should bein the i386 folder or equivalent in your Windows 2003 distro. It runs automatically if it's there. However if there is also a svcpack.in_ in your win2003 in i386 it overwrites your modified one. So be sure to remove it. All your files should be in the i386\Update folder or nothing will happen. However I'm not sure if your version information is right, as that looks like it's for XP and not 2003. Perhaps it needs different numbers. Right-Clicking doesn't work because by default it looks for a [DefaultInstall] tag inside the INF to run, and since there isn't one, right-clicking won't work. This may help you: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/...ion126121120120

has anyone done a search? it may be better to either search or go to THEIR forums from their website

remove WFP? i don't think you can remove it. You can disable....

as i said, check the links in my profile. bored's program is out of date, and does not work with SP2. The website should tell you what runtimes you need. But it would be better for you to look at the unattended website link.

i wish for that Security Center to be GONE! Anyone else with me?

and folks, if you look on the bright side.... SP2 isn't due to be final for awhile.

you have to create it. for future reference, check the links in my profile. And do read before posting, it will answer alot of your questions