atomicrabbit Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 I'm interested in in making an unattended xp install with integrated application install and have done a bit of research a while ago, along with following the tutorial here. I found the tutorials to be very unnecessarily complicated for the outcome. I actually gave up 3/4 of the way through because it was so complicated... I especially found manually integrating external applications annoyingly hard because if any new versions came out fo certain applications, it would be hard to re-integrate the new versions. Is it better to use nLite? If so, could someone point me to a good tutorial for it.Also, I'm looking to integrate hotfixes/updates which I've obviously found here. I know basically how to do this using RyanVM's Integrator already.My overall question is, which is better? nLite or the manual way. Is there even a difference. Could someone offer me some direction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PC_LOAD_LETTER Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 depends on what you want to do really. If you found the tutorials complicated, i would stay stick with nlite until you get a better understanding of the windows setup process and how it works.the best advice i can give you is to use a VM (VMware, VirtualPC, Virtualbox) for testing as simplifies the process dramatically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomicrabbit Posted April 30, 2008 Author Share Posted April 30, 2008 it's not so much that it's complicated... rather that it's tedious for what it accomplishes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PC_LOAD_LETTER Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 i guess it depends on what your using it for. If your using it on a few machines i wouldnt spend too much time on it but in my situation, I install windows XP on average about every other week and if i had to wait for windows update and manually update every one of them, i would go nuts (well actually my WSUS server would prolly catch them but not without issues im sure) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomicrabbit Posted April 30, 2008 Author Share Posted April 30, 2008 (edited) would you suggest to slipstream sp3 final? If I did, would I have to install any extra components? WMP 11? anything from RyanVM's site? I know there is a WGA addon, a wmp addon, etc etc. Is this all included in SP3? Edited April 30, 2008 by atomicrabbit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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