Create ISO Images Nlite/Command Line

[jwaltrip]

I have created all of the settings in nlite just the way I want them for a number of versions of Windows (2ksrd, skadv, 2k3std, 2k3ent)

I call a set of custom scripts as part of the install. These scripts execute the same way from each version of the OS, so the only thing I need to change is the scripts (in the $OEM$ directories, and some of the $OEM$ files

1. if I change files in the $OEM$ directories, I do not need to re-run the whole nlite compilations, I should only need to recreate the ISO. Correct?

2. is there a command line I can use to create the ISO directly? I know that there are ISO creation tools such as CDIMAGE out there (I have a copy from WINPE). Is there anythign special that needs to be done with creating the ISO?

3. Can I take the cirestory structure NLITE creates and burn that directly to a CD? Do I need to do anything to make it bootable? Or will it boot by virtue of the file directory structure on it.

Thanks in advance for any help....

[Martin H]

1. if I change files in the $OEM$ directories, I do not need to re-run the whole nlite compilations, I should only need to recreate the ISO. Correct?

Correct.

2. is there a command line I can use to create the ISO directly? I know that there are ISO creation tools such as CDIMAGE out there (I have a copy from WINPE). Is there anythign special that needs to be done with creating the ISO?

Grab the 'boot.img' file from your nLite program folder and place it in a folder together with 'cdimage.exe'. Then copy/paste the following into a batch file named 'makeiso.cmd' and which you also store in the same folder, and you also need to ammend the paths accordingly:

@echo off

cdimage.exe -l"VRMPVOL_EN" -h -j1 -b"boot.img" -x -o -m "D:\Temp\VRMPVOL_EN" "D:\Temp\WinLite.iso"

Source path

Destination path

Volume label

Then you just double-click on 'makeiso.cmd' whenever you want to make a bootable ISO.

Edited January 11, 2008 by Martin H