Nlite after HFSLIP: Windows 2000

[oao]

I bought a Lenovo R61 that came with XP Pro preloaded and no disc. I don't much care for XP and intend to migrate it to Win2000 for which I have a disc.

My plan is to use HFSLIP to slipstream the hotfixes and obtain a SOURCESS file on which to apply nLite to get rid of crappola.

Questions:

1. Can I run nLite on a Windows 2000 system to streamline a Windows 2000 bootable disc?

2. The HFSLIP process produces an ISO image to burn at the same time it produces SOURCESS. If I then apply nLite to SOURCESS will nLite permit me to produce a new ISO image to burn to disc, or will it burn to disc directly, without producing an ISO?

Thanks.

[oao]

one more question:

is it ok to run nlite on a winxp system to streamline the win2k cd, or must it be run on a win2k system?

i was planning to run it on my older win2k system, but it does not have .NET and i cannot install .NET on it.

[AgiHammerklau]

It was definitely possible to nlite an hfslipped CD (wrote a small tutorial in the german-nlite forum).

But this was long ago.

I don´t know about the actual versions (especially with the upcoming HFSLIP 2.0).

Sorry !

As far as I remember, you don´t need to create an iso with HFSLIP.

It´s enough, if you run nlite on the sourcess-folder.

Nlite will ask you, if you want to burn directly or to create an iso.

It´s possible to create a W2K CD on XP.

The only limitation known is, if you try to slipstream XP or W2K on Vista.

Agi

Edited June 28, 2008 by AgiHammerklau

[oao]

Thanks.

I was able to burn directly a CD with nLite which boots ok, but then asks to:

Please insert the disk labeled Service Pack 4 CD into Drive A:

instead of continuing with the Windows installation.

I wonder why? Could it be because of the CDROMSP4. TST file, which I never thought was necessary, but there is some confusion about it at the Vorck site.