Carlos

Same way here, but the reason for keeping temp, settings and docs separate from each other is fragmentation and keeping my docs partition (64GB) at the end of the disk, whereas temp and settings would be at the beginning, next to the system partition, sort like *nix systems. I'll have to check in the compressed .infs to see if there's something useful there. Cheers, Carlos

Ok, it worked! Now, I just have to find why setup won't install my components, display and networking settings. Carlos

Baliktad, do you have a hack to install settings (temp folders, application data, etc.) into separate partitions from user documents? The %user_shell_folders% entries in hivedef.inf are valid only for normal user accounts (admin, etc.) not for the system accounts like "all users", which is what I'm interested in. Right now, I'm installing profiles into a separate partition but would like to have my docs installed into a different partition than apps settings (and/or the various temp folders). The same goes for environment settings, I can set them for user accounts, but not to the system itself. Carlos

RyanVM: I had yet to try installing q817778 along with Windows, thanx for the reminder anyway. GreenMachine: I'll try your suggestion, thanx. See ya, Carlos

Hi all, I tried and tried installing according to ms hotfix combination mode, but the os allways locks the boot screen on the first post install boot. Setuperr.log only starts to fill on the very last run of the progress bar and according to it, setup can't find the appropriate catalogs, so booting the os fails, but all the files were installed. I've run out of clues. Can someone help me on this? I've yet to try any of the methods described here, hopefully ms knows something about installing it's oses and it's me who's missing something? While at it, if someone could explain me why the screen resolution, network components and "optional" components settings are ignored by setup (doesn't matter wheter there's "", spaces or whatever), I'll would also be grateful - screen resolution always gets set to the monitor default (1280x1024), which sucks on a crt, network always tries to install the default components (tcp, qos, msnet) and the optional components are also all instaled, always. these are my svcpack.inf and unattend.txt/winnt.sif (I'll save you dosnet.inf, but there's nothing wrong with it, all entries are there, I'm absolutly sure) - the install switches were taken from the installers with /? and qchain isn't needed with this setup. [Version] Signature = $Windows NT$ [setupData] CatalogSubDir = i386\svcpack [ProductCatalogsToInstall] Q322011.cat Q327979.cat q329256.cat Q329692.cat q330994.cat Q810032.cat Q810272.cat Q811114.cat q812415.cat Q814995.cat Q815485.cat KB817778.cat Q819696.cat KB820291.cat KB821253.cat KB822603.cat kb823182.cat KB824105.cat kb826939.cat kb824141.cat kb825119.cat kb828035.cat kb829558.cat q828750.cat q818857.cat scripptg.cat [setupHotfixesToRun] Q322011.exe /q /n /z Q327979.exe /q /n /z q329256.exe /q /n /z Q329692.exe /q /n /z q330994.exe /q Q810032.EXE /q /n /z Q810272.EXE /q /n /z Q811114.exe /q /n /z q812415.exe /q /n /z Q814995.EXE /q /n /z Q815485.EXE /q /n /z KB817778.exe /q /n /z Q819696.exe /q /n /z KB820291.exe /q /n /z KB821253.exe /q /n /z KB822603.exe /q /n /z kb823182.exe /q /n /z KB824105.exe /q /n /z kb826939.exe /quiet /n /norestart kb824141.exe /quiet /n /norestart kb825119.exe /q /n /z kb828035.exe /quiet /n /norestart kb829558.exe /quiet /n /norestart q828750.exe /q q818857.exe /q scripptg.exe /q unattend.txt: ;SetupMgrTag [Data] MsDosInitiated=0 UnattendedInstall=Yes [unattended] UnattendMode=ProvideDefault OemPreinstall=No OemSkipEula=Yes TargetPath="XP" UnattendSwitch=Yes WaitForReboot=No [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword="..." EncryptedAdminPassword=No OEMSkipRegional=0 OemSkipWelcome=1 ProfilesDir="h:\" TimeZone=85 [userData] ProductKey="..." FullName="..." OrgName="" ComputerName="..." [Components] AccessOpt="Off" AutoUpdate="Off" Clipbook="Off" Deskpaper="Off" Dialer="Off" Hypertrm="Off" Iis_webadmin="Off" Media_clips="Off" ;Media_utopia="On" Mplay="Off" Msnexplr="Off" Mswordpad="Off" Netoc="Off" Objectpkg="Off" Paint="Off" Pinball="Off" Rec="Off" Templates="Off" WMAccess="Off" Zonegames="Off" [Display] BitsPerPel="32" Xresolution="1152" YResolution="864" Vrefresh="85" [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17 [branding] BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes Home_Page="about:blank" [Proxy] [FavoritesEx] [identification] [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=No [NetAdapters] [NetClients] [NetProtocols] [NetServices] [PCHealth] ER_Display_UI=1 ER_Enable_Reporting=0 RA_AllowToGetHelp=0 Thx, Carlos