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For general amusement, my systems: ABIT KG7-RAID XP1800+ 512MB-ECC 80GB-HDD Radeon9000VIVO AOPEN AK79 XP1800+ 512MB 80GB-HDD Radeon9000VIVO DELL GX110 P3-800 256MB 20GB-HDD DELL GX100 P2-500 192MB 10GB-HDD I have to agree when "saugatak" says it is useful or necessary to make a clean install every xx months. My 2 AMD systems needs this because my family is working+playing on these and I only have dial-in connection to the internet, so Windows update is almost impossible. Even Windows2000 is not that stable anymore when using some Video Processing Software. (I killed a fresh installed W2k system with installing a DVB card) Therefore I like to have a CD which reduces setup time from approx. 4 hours to 1h. BTW The DELL GX110 is the PC I work on all day. Finally: My reason to use HFSLIP is the fast setup time with up to date Hotfixes that "I" can include. And of course it's only a script - not a program who I cannot trace. I also don't like the "W2kSP5 update packages" which are offered by some sites. Mostly they are not localizable or working some hours to apply dozens of hotfixes one after another.

Crash&Burn: Which driver Version do you use? On the nVidia web-page is a NF3 driver Ver 5.11 available. NF2 driver Version is 4.27 (which also works for NF3 but not vice versa) All are WHQL. Inside the packages, the IDE drivers have also different Revs. I had to install also the IDE SW drivers (even nvidia warned to use this). It seems that unlike VIA, nVidia has no driver architecture including all chipsets.

Standard-PC: I've installed nlite and it makes the following WINNT.SIF entry: ComputerType = "Standard-PC", Retail I will try this. Chipset driver: After googling around for a while I came to the conclusion that nforce2 is not well supported by W2k and probably never will be. Without a miniport driver which apparently replaces the Windows IDE driver it will not work well. This solution is not suitable to be implemented on a W2k Install-CD for different computers. So I will use a $OEM$ folder with all chipset drivers to manually install after W2k setup. In the past I've changed from Via to nVidia because of similar issues (IDE,USB...) and I'm totally satisfied with nVidia performance and stability now. The only thing is the time consuming post install procedure with drivers.

Is there an easy way to do an installation as "standard-pc" instead of "ACPI" per default? (Without pressing F5 during early install) This is because some video+multimedia cards having trouble with sharing IRQ11 altogether. I've found the information to add: ACPIenable=0 in txtsetup.sif. Is this possible or does Windows check the integrity of txtsetup.sif? Additional: Is it possible to integrate chipset drivers like nForce + Via? W2k is very slow without IDE chipset drivers on Nvidia and Via boards and uses only PIO mode (~3MB/sec). I don't know a fully! unattended way to install these drivers. Best regards

Hi, I have successfully made some (~20) silent install packages using IEXPRESS (XPSP2). Usually I call an install.cmd which does the job pretty well inside the package. Then I have been asked to do this for Win98 platforms also. This is theoretically no problem but when using an install.bat instead of install.cmd IEXPRESS uses a built in command.com (DOS5.0!!!) which can only operate with 8.3 filenames. (command.com on 98SE or up does support long filenames) This problem is the same when running XP with an install.bat. Has somebody a workaround for this problem? (starting a new command.com session during installation does not work either)test.zip Attached is a sample test which runs not when IEXPRESSed (test.exe) but the included install.bat runs under Windows even in a command.com session