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    Yes, just have your direct address (sitename.com/index.htm) as some html page, which would re-direct you to the forum after few seconds. <HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>BLANK</TITLE> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;URL=http://www.sitename.com/forums/index.php"> <HEAD> <BODY>Deliberately left blank. <BR> You need to personally contact this person, to know any more details, about which directory/file you want. <br>Anyway, You will be redirected to a forum in 10 seconds. <br><img src="wait.gif" alt="please wait 10 seconds for re-direction"><!-- bt --></body> </html>The above is an example. Hoping this helps....
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    beaumar, SP2 by itself has support for newer ATi cards. That will enable full resolution. And for how to integrate native ATi drivers, the guide describes the OEMpnpDriversPath method. Direct the path of that to where you have your catalyst's extracted "\Driver\2KXP_INF". Hoping I've explained the above somewhat clearly.... If you have anything to clarify, just ask. And hey, we don't have ATi flamers around here - in fact, no flamers.
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    On the CD, "$OEM$\$1\Install\Applications\Office XP\Cd1\" is the folder that should exist - please confirm. The "Install" folder need *NOT* have a "$" character in its name! And about the $1 - whatever is in that folder will get copied to C:\ - so it has to be that way.
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    If you have seen the reports about the modular nature of XP embedded edition, you've probably wanted to try it out for yourself as well. If you go to the official designated site for downloading the evaluation version, you find that there's a whole lot of custom-downloaders, different files, agreements, and so on.... Cut through the crap, get to the download directly - linked page. Or, you can get even more direct - embedded WinXPSP2 eval. (single-file download, 257 MB). Enjoy!
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    PHEW! I finally got round to try out acronis on multi-boot, and results are great! bootinfotable;run xxx.BIFIs what works perfectly, in EasyBoot 5.05 - thanks a lot, to Incroyable HULK for the idea.
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    Yes, and there's nothing else in that .bat.Try creating a norton ghost boot-disk from with the app. That's when it extracts the DOS-based files from a file within its installed folder, and writes to floppy. I hate floppy, so I use virtual floppy disks.
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    Yep. On an nForce2 (with integrated graphics) based MoBo. And made by MSI.
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    @BritishBulldog You're correct. Always try to avoid spaces in file/folder names - atleast for your uA CD. Then, if you don't want to avoid spaces, put the quotes only around the file-path. The switches should be independent of the quotes. Like below: start /wait "%systemdrive%\Install\Applications\Office XP\Cd1\setup.exe" TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-
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    I tested this (1.6) in a GeForce MX440 machine, and all seems fine. Except... I was not able to tell the difference between 16-bit color and 24-bit color - to my eyes it both looked like the same thing. All the other modes, I could clearly identify the number of color boxes (like, 16, 256, etc.).
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    @peejaygee Everything seems alright. The problem here, is that you have unnecessary quotes around the command. Run the command straight out - no need for quotes. The below should work: start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Applications\Office XP\Cd1\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-
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    No No, nLite only does what you'd need to manually do. And incidentally, you manually do exactly the same thing that MS does for their pre-made disks. And thousands of people know and trust what nLite can do for them. The bottom-line, is as said above - that if you start with a plain (non-SP1) CD, and replace the other tools on the CD (with the ones from the SP2 free-order CD) - you have *EXACTLY* what MS is providing. By free-order CD, I'm referring to the SP2 CD that MS had put up for order on its page, for free delivery across the world. It contains SP2, netfx folder (.NET framework), Support tools, and ValueAdd folder (but the actual windowsXP OS disk you have to have, in order to be able to use it). So, just merge SP2, and replace the netfx, SUPPORT and VALUEADD folders to have a CD identical to the pre-updated CD sold in retail by MS. @Wai_Wai No offense towards you, in any way. I just had to clarify things, to set the facts straight.
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    There must be..... its all the same things actually - so its just some switch, to enable ghost-casting. Just that you need some more files copied, I think.#2 yes, that's quite possible. #3 I don't know! When norton ghost boot-disk was created, it came like that, with the time-zone pre-set. (I think for the sake of properly identifying file-times). And just because it was already there, and I did not see any bad-effects of that, I continued using it.
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    Well, the easiest thing to do then, is not specify those settings. If you don't specify something, then setup will use default values. Because, if you have a US English CD of Win2k, it is anyway going to have USA as locale, and default keyboard layout.
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    Old one... but still is nice to see.
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    You can have ghost running far simpler. 1. Install Ghost 8. 2. Go into the installed folder, copy away these files: gdisk.exe GHOST.EXE MOUSE.COM nGhost.BAT Contents of nGhost.bat: SET TZ=GHO-05:30 MOUSE.COM echo Loading... GHOST.EXE -forceusbThis is for my specific needs, that I need to set the timezone, and start ghost with USB storage devices support. The above nGhost.bat is so that whenever you need to start ghost, it will run with mouse support. That's it - boot into win98/ME boot-disk with CDrom support (using our multi-boot ) - and go into the folder on the CD where the ghost files (the 4 files mentioned above) are located and run nGhost. I found that doing it this way, saves lot of effort, and space on CD too.
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    Yes, there's no such section in winnt.sif Instead the section is actually called [GUIrunOnce].
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    There's a far easier way to do it. You just need to run a command, with desired parameters. #17. Pre-configure/automate your swap file
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    @millington_lee First, don't bother about the RAID for now - isn't it useless when even the basic unattend feature isn't yet working? For the winnt.sif, check that it is placed in the I386 folder. If it still doesn't work, you can try starting from scratch once again. If the time it takes to do it all again is frightening, then don't do it! We all had to do plenty of testing and trouble-shooting and it took weeks and months to have the disk the way it was needed to be.
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    1. The SP1 keys should work fine with SP2 as well, provided that the key is not pirated, and that the SP1 key you're using is for the same channel as the SP2 CD. 2. By itself, a pre-made SP2 CD from MS and your own slip-streamed CD is the same.The difference, would be that the other folders/tools on the MS CD would be updated. You can do that updating yourself, by over-writing the files on your home-made CD with the ones from the SP2 (the free-order CD) disk.
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    comprehensive pre-configuration of IE6 through registry
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    Try this: Set IE as your default browser once again. Reset Internet options to defaults.
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    Nooo...... I mean, if it was set as to be extracted to %systemdrive%. And it has folders within, called "Program Files", "Windows", "Documents and Settings" - which might be fine for a specific machine, at defaults. And I'd have changed the ProgramFiles dir and Profiles dir - for just one install. The rest are at defaults. The result would be that the above doesn't work, for the install which did not use defaults. No offense to you, its just that the bottom-line should be that no matter what the conditions, it should "just work" *EVERYWHERE* without any surprises. As of now, using an installer (whether free like InnoSetup, or paid like InstallShield) might still be the only way to achieve the objective of extracting to different variable paths.
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    so what do you do when you have pre-set it to extract to %systemdrive%\Windows, and I have specified in winnt.sif that the %windir% has to be "\WinXP" ? fast and easy shortcuts, lol - comes to grief in unexpected conditions.
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    No, v4.5 key would be of no use.
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    No, XPSP1 came in august 2002 or thereabouts. And SP1 came into full force, only around 2003 when it was distributed pre-slip-streamed. So almost all official CDs before that would be non-SP1.
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