What am I doing wrong? Please help!

[exorr]

I just found nLite 2 days ago and thought, "this is awesome, can't wait to use it". Well, since this time I've just been pulling my hair out. I've probably made 15 coasters and only 1 CD that actually worked the way it should.

The issue I seem to run into all the time is that when I get to 9 Minutes remaining on the "Finalizing Installation" it freezes. I can fix this by popping the CD out of the drive and the installation will complete. However, when the OS boots the first time the desktop is blue (not standard Windows XP desktop) and when I click on the IE link a box pops up asking me what program I want to use to open IE. So IE is broken.

I was able to get 1 CD working by ONLY integrating SP2 and nothing else. However, anytime I try to do anything else (unattended install, drivers, etc) I get the error explained above.

Can someone help me?

Thanks,

Ethan

[nuhi]

1.4.1 and newer should have that fixes.

If you did use newer version then attach one of the presets that failed and make sure that you used a clean installation files, without modifications from some other tools or by hand, at least until we figure out what.

Btw to skip the issue simply disable SFC in Options-Patches but I would rather figure out why it happens and fix it, rather than skip it, and maybe you want SFC on.

[exorr]

Thanks for the reply nuhi. I'm using the FINAL 1.4.1 version right now. I was using 1.4.5 beta 2 but thought that may of been the issue so tested with 1.4.1.

My installation file is fresh each time.

Attached is one of my presets that's failing.

nLite_XP_SP2_Drivers_Integrated.ini

[exorr]

I disabled SFC but I just get an error "Cannot format disk" during the install.

I don't get it

[danker]

@exorr

SFC have nothing to do with a disk format!

I gues you dont use a clean source to start work with nlite!

[exorr]

Yes, I realize SFC has nothing to do with disk format, but I just wanted to show that even with SFC disabled I had another issue.

My source is fine as it worked once without issue. I used RyanVM on the exact same source (making a copy of it of course) and was able to Integrate SP2 and all hotfixes without any issues perfectly the first try.

I'd like to use nLite instead since it allows much more configuration options during the Unattended and Options sections, but just can't get nLite to work.

Thanks,

Ethan

Edited May 1, 2008 by exorr

[danker]

A "clean source" isent only a working source!

Take your original XP-CD, integrate the actual SP, ans nothing more.

This is a clean source!

[exorr]

I've done this. I'm slowly narrowing down the issue.

I just took my clean source, integrated SP2 and RyanVM's 2.2.2 Patch Pack and everything went perfectly.

I feel this issue has something to do when I setup the Unattended install.

I'm working to verify that now.

[exorr]

I'm getting there...slowly.

I was able to get the following done and had a successful install.

1. Integrate SP2 (I did this to my source before using nLite, saves time).

2. Integrate RyanVM's Patch Pack v 2.2.2.

3. Numerous Unattended and Options selected.

With the items above I was OK. I then tried adding IE7 and a few other programs and I got fubarred again. I'll continue attempting this.

Thanks,

Ethan

[danker]

Its the IE7!

Someone detected this in the german-nlite board, too!

Everything works fine until you take the IE7!

Thank you Microsoft, you give us good reasons to switch to FX or Opera!

[exorr]

So should I just forget about Integrating IE7 then? Is there a way to do it so it works. I've tried all sorts of things (just integrating the install, using the Addon package, etc) and none work.

[danker]

So should I just forget about Integrating IE7 then?

At the moment i would say its better!