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can i use this in the cmdlines.txt? oh yeah anyone know why the latest version does not have a usb driver?

ive just encountered this same problem. i had everything working, but then i screwed things up, so i figured it would be easiest to just redo everything. now my install says its an upgrade. eh? been hunting for a solution to this without luck. i was about ready to burn my cd before this happened. had a ramdrive, the rollup slipstreamed, all the registry tweaks i needed, everything.

got a quick question. there seems to be a txtsetup file in the BOOT folder as well as the i386 folder. so which is used? can i delete the one in i386?

hmm yep. tho if any of the files are different in any way then i dont think it can save the space. btw, after i post this ill edit my other post and put in the command line options.

At first I thought it skipped the first file copy process. For me that has always been the file copy in the text part of the install. I have normally avoided starting install from windows because it does that copy and makes it impossible to delete the partition(s) that windows puts those files. So i guess thats why I don't see any speed improvement.

this link is good, and should be good for a while. for the cdimage.exe http://www.tech-hints.com/prog/cdimage.zip and a gui version (english beta 3) http://www.tech-hints.com/prog/cdimagegui.zip for those who dont know why everyone here likes cdimage its because it can optomize storage. if it finds two exactly identical files it will not write them twice like a normal burning program, but those two files will be written only once, saving space. (i have personally seen over 200 megs of space saved) I don't know if anyone else has posted the command lines for cdimage yet, I don't recall seeing them in the thread. So here they are. The -o is the important one. CDIMAGE 2.39 CD-ROM Premastering Utility Copyright (C) Microsoft, 1993-1997. All rights reserved. For Microsoft internal use only. Usage: CDIMAGE [options] sourceroot targetfile -l volume label, no spaces (e.g. -lMYLABEL) -t time stamp for all files and directories, no spaces, any delimiter (e.g. -t12/31/91,15:01:00) -g encode GMT time for files rather than local time -h include hidden files and directories -n allow long filenames (longer than DOS 8.3 names) -nt allow long filenames, restricted to NT 3.51 compatibility (-nt and -d cannot be used together) -d don't force lowercase filenames to uppercase -c use ANSI filenames versus OEM filenames from source -j1 encode Joliet Unicode filenames AND generate DOS-compatible 8.3 filenames in the ISO-9660 name space (can be read by either Joliet systems or conventional ISO-9660 systems, but some of the filenames in the ISO-9660 name space might be changed to comply with DOS 8.3 and/or ISO-9660 naming restrictions) -j2 encode Joliet Unicode filenames without standard ISO-9660 names (requires a Joliet operating system to read files from the CD) When using the -j1 or -j2 options, the -n, -nt, and -d options do not apply and cannot be used. -js non-Joliet "readme.txt" file for images encoded with -j2 option (e.g. -jsc:\location\readme.txt). This file will be visible as the only file in the root directory of the disc on systems that do not support the Joliet format (Windows 3.1, NT 3.x, etc). -u1 encode "UDF" file system along with mirror ISO-9660 file system (-n, -nt, -d, -c, or -j1, -j2 options apply to ISO-9660 portion) -u2 encode "UDF" file system without a mirror ISO-9660 file system (requires a UDF capable operating system to read the files) -us non-UDF "readme.txt" file for images encoded with -u2 option (e.g. -usc:\location\readme.txt). This file will be visible as the only file in the root directory of the disc on systems that do not support the UDF format. -b "El Torito" boot sector file, no spaces (e.g. -bc:\location\cdboot.bin) -s sign image file with digital signature (no spaces, provide RPC server and endpoint name like -sServerName:EndPointName) -x compute and encode "AutoCRC" values in image -o optimize storage by encoding duplicate files only once -oc slower duplicate file detection using binary comparisons rather than MD5 hash values -oi ignore diamond compression timestamps when comparing files -os show duplicate files while creating image (-o options can be combined like -ocis) -w warning level followed by number (e.g. -w4) 1 report non-ISO or non-Joliet compliant filenames or depth 2 report non-DOS compliant filenames 3 report zero-length files 4 report each file name copied to image -y test option followed by number (e.g. -y1), used to generate non-standard variations of ISO-9660 for testing purposes: 1 encode trailing version number ';1' on filenames (7.5.1) 2 round directory sizes to multiples of 2K (6.8.1.3) 5 write \i386 directory files first, in reverse sort order 6 allow directory records to be exactly aligned at ends of sectors (ISO-9660 6.8.1.1 conformant but breaks MSCDEX) 7 warn about generated shortnames for 16-bit apps under NT 4.0 b blocksize 512 bytes rather than 2048 bytes d suppress warning for non-identical files with same initial 64K -k (keep) create image even if fail to open some of the source files -m ignore maximum image size of 681,984,000 bytes -a allocation summary shows file and directory sizes -q scan source files only, don't create an image file NOTE: Many of these options allow you to create CD images that are NOT compliant with ISO-9660 and may also NOT be compatibile with one or more operating systems. If you want strict ISO and DOS compliance, use the -w2 warning level and correct any discrepencies reported. YOU are responsible for insuring that any generated CDs are compatible with all appropriate operating systems. Also note that Microsoft company information is placed in the image volume header, so don't use this program to generate CDs for companies other than Microsoft.

after seeing this post i went out and got PE-Builder, and I think its awsome. however i am having trouble getting it to fit on my CD. my cd isnt full yet, however i will be adding win2000 (if i can fit it). the problem with PE is that cdimage.exe isnt able to save any space from winPE's folders. to make sure everything fits should/can i unpack winxp's driver.cab so cdimage sees the identical driver files? are there any other options available for space reduction with PE from PE-Builder? also gosh, i dont see any speed improvement, but the space improvment without removing anything from XP is great. thanks.

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