teotwawki

Yea, the plain W2K server CD I just HFSLIP-ed works fine so the problems I'm haveing with the 3-way Pro/Server/Advanced must be more to do with the multi-boot than HFSLIP or anything I'm doing. I'm curious about the bit in HFSLIP when it asks for the path to the booting version. Is there a bit of detail on that published somewhere ? Meanwhile I'll try to make a single-boot disc from the 3-way original, keeping it's paths.

Just tried with the 60220 version and got the same problem. I think I'll try a run through with a plain W2K CD to make sure I'm doing everything right. Will post back soon.

Hello. I've just joined after recently dscovering HFSLIP on www.vorck.com I'm a *ix and OSS fan really but my MCSE used to pay the rent and I still use it quite a lot. In the past I've written many cunning batch files etc. but with the shell changing behaviour in almost every version of Windows and with the rise of Linux, I've recently taken up Perl to make all my scripting cross-platform. Should have done it years ago! Anyway, nice to 'meet' you all, & c u in the forums!

First I'll be up-front and say I was probably trying to run before walking, as I'm trying to build a HFSLIP CD of not just a Win 2000 but all 3. We have an original Win2000 MSDN CD which contains a boot loader that prompts for your choice of Professional, Server or Advanced Server. The CD contains sub-folders with installation sources for all 3. Files which are common to all 3 are hard-linked so the whole original CD is quite a bit less than 650MB. For each of the 3, I separately copied the I386 structure off the CD onto disc, ran the HFSLIP on it and then moved the patched I386 to a new folder structure. I then copied the other contents of the original MSDN CD into the new structure and re-linked all files which have the same name, size & checksum. I took the BOOT.BIN from the MSDN CD and burnt the ISO using the same mkisofs flags I found in the HFSLIP_60129.CMD file. No extra flags were needed to preserve the hard links. The resulting CD boots ok and offers the menu of the 3 versions. Upon selecting one (same problem on all 3) the normal Win 2000 installation proceeds until just after starting the GUI phase of setup. Then I get an error dialogue whose text is saved in SETUPERR.LOG I read through the web site again and the other documentation. The WU.TXT is taken from the host machine I used, not the intended target. The other log files are from the target. I've also included TREE.TXT which shows the folder structure on the CD. Note that when prompted in HFSLIP I told it the I386 was in "ENGLISH/WIN2000/PRO/" for example. Could anyone take a look at the attached logs and see if I've done anything wrong ? Many thanks. HFS_ERR.ZIP

See explanation here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&sho...ndpost&p=464730