paulus4605

Dears I have the following question: I bought a acer ferrari 1000 laptop with preinstalled drivers and windows xp pro 64 bit. what do I need to do to in order to find my drivers and windows xp pro 64 bit setup files. I found on my harddrive a folder named i386 but don't know how to identify everything in there and how to modify this in order to create my own unattended dvd. thanks for your help and feedback paul

doesn't anybody have an idea how to solve this ?

blinkdt thanks for your help kind regards Paul

Dears is there a site besides adobe where I can find the bootstrap tool "acrobat7chaining.zip apperently it can't be downloaded from the adobe site, it's mentioned as downloadable but no direct link that's working I tried to see it with firefox and internet explorer but with both browsers I don't get a download link thanks for helping me out here Paul

deleted wrong topic sorry

Dears this is my first attempt to integrate the drivers into my unnattended install. I have a question I have a Via_Rhine installer (the exe looks like a computer screen with a cd underneeth it) and I was just wondering what the switches are to install it silently thanks for your help and feedback Paul

no one to help me out here ?? :(

Dears where can I find this program "UnattendedXP" as mentioned in the first post of this thread? I tried to find a download at their homepage but couldn't find it thanks for your help Paul

doesn't anybody has a clue how to solve this? :-(

I Isolated the problem to vmware because when I try tro execute the same .cmd file from my pc itself it's executing everything after reboot? could this be a problem of memory that is being used by vmware? thanks for the feedback Paul

I've a question I'm busy creating a silent installation for windows xp pro and I also created a folder for specific drivers which I want to fill up later on. I also added a few programs and when I wanted to test this out I see that in vmware windows hangs after first logon( where normally office and all the other programs are going to be installed) is this normal I mean do I have to create the parameters for the drivers first or could this be related to another problem? thanks for your coop and feedback Paul

no problem I didn't get the error back telling me that win.ini or win.com are missing only problem that remains is that I still have to reboot before the rest of the applications will install. even after the modifications you posted earlier. thanks again for your fantastic help just hope to find a way that it will continue after setup is finished Paul

recreated a new dvd and up till now no errors like win.ini and win.com missing setup is still running keep you posted Paul

sonic both of the files are on the original cd

Sonic, I will have to check that when I get home tonight. the thing I don't understand is that I just extracted everything from my Windows xp cd and didn't do anything special so the win.ini and com should be present or am I mistaken. or could it just be because I just changed from windows 98 to xp in vmware? Paul

sonic the win.ini and win.com are listed in this file if you want I will post this file in attachment

@sonic if you mean my winnt.sif you will find it on the previous page Paul

@cluberti I'm running setup from a cd @sonic the only modifications I did was slipstreaming windows xp professional with service pack 1 & 2 adding office 2003 and skype to see if everything was working ok (did this on purpose to see if I understood the procedures correctly before I start building a dvd with all the applications that I want on it) these are the only modifications I did and under the install folder I have my batch.cmd to start installing the applications after windows is finished installing at this the batch file looks like this cmdow @ /HID @Echo Off SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Installeren van Programma's" /f REG ADD %KEY%\010 /VE /D "skype 1.4" /f REG ADD %KEY%\010 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\applications\skype\SkypeSetup.exe /VERYSILENT /SP-" /f REG ADD %KEY%\020 /VE /D "Microsoft Office 2003 Professional" /f REG ADD %KEY%\020 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\install\applications\Office2003PRO\SETUP.EXE TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-" /f exit thanks again for all your help Paul

The error comes when setup copies all needed files to the c drive

Sonic I'm sorry just got a popup that win.ini can't be copied with the following choise skip, abort and continue the same message I got with win.com thanks for the modifications Paul Sonic I'm sorry just got a popup that win.ini can't be copied with the following choise skip, abort and continue the same message I got with win.com thanks for the modifications Paul

I have as system windows professional and even when I get these error messages setup continues after skipping the file and after that the system is functioning as normal and yes it's a windows unattended tryout. this is my winnt.sif file without the serial ofcourse ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=1 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes TargetPath=\WINDOWS Repartition =Yes [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword="" EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=105 OemSkipWelcome=1 [userData] ProductKey= FullName="Paul" OrgName="Prive" ComputerName=* [Display] BitsPerPel=32 Xresolution=1024 YResolution=768 [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=1 SystemLocale=00000813 UserLocale=00000813 InputLocale=0813:00000813 [identification] JoinWorkgroup=Thuis [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes [GuiRunOnce] %systemdrive%\install\power.cmd another question what do I have to do to make windows installing everything without my interferance and what do I need to do that I don't get the user screen at the beginning asking me what users are using the computer thanks for your help Paul

Sonic, when I install a system on my vmware machine

I have a question during setup I got these 2 error messages in vmware 5.0 "win.ini and win.com missing" and I don't know how this is possible sinced I followed each procedure mentioned to the letter? can you please help 2nd question I have is that the programs that I want to start automaticly after the setup has finished did not start after rebooting how can I make it work that it's installing during setup and finishes up when I'm login on the first time? thanks for your coop and feedback Paul

@faceMouth thanks for the help Paul