Famous D:\I386\asms error

[pthoma]

Hi,

I'm getting the famous D:\I386\asms error during installation on a HP NW8240 laptop.

I've started with a Windows XP Prof SP1.

-Added SP2

-Added SP3

-Removed Components

-Applied Tweaks

-Added Ryan's Pack

-Altered Options

-Made an ISO using mkisofs

-Burned ISO on DVD.

The laptop can boot from the DVD, copy files to the hard disk, but after a reboot I get the following error.

Error:

Installation Failed: D:\I386\asms.

Error message: The specified resource type cannot be found in the image file.

I had the same error before, when I added laptop specific drivers to the image. Now, I didn't add any drivers, so that cannot be the problem.

When I start from a Windows XP Prof SP1 and do:

-added SP2

-added SP3

-added Ryan's Pack

There is no problem installing Windows. (I do not get the error)

So I expect the problem to arise when removing components, doing tweaks or options.

In neither of the cases I did an unattended install.

Any suggestion?

PS: I have screenshots of the tweaks I did or components I removed.

[pthoma]

I installed WinMerge to see in which way the working D:\I386\asms directory differs from the not working one.

On the untweaked (and working) WinLite DVD.

D:\I386\asms looks like:

10/14/08 02:12 PM <DIR> .

10/14/08 02:12 PM <DIR> ..

10/14/08 02:12 PM <DIR> 1

10/14/08 02:12 PM <DIR> 10

10/14/08 02:12 PM <DIR> 1000

10/14/08 02:12 PM <DIR> 10100

10/14/08 02:12 PM <DIR> 2

10/14/08 02:12 PM <DIR> 5100

10/14/08 02:12 PM <DIR> 52

10/14/08 02:12 PM <DIR> 60

10/14/08 02:12 PM <DIR> 6000

10/14/08 02:12 PM <DIR> 60100

10/14/08 02:12 PM <DIR> 70

10/14/08 02:12 PM <DIR> 7000

10/14/08 02:12 PM <DIR> 70100

On the tweaked (and failing) DVD it looks like:

10/14/08 12:00 PM <DIR> .

10/14/08 12:17 PM <DIR> ..

10/14/08 09:30 AM <DIR> 1

10/14/08 09:30 AM <DIR> 10

10/14/08 09:10 AM <DIR> 1000

10/14/08 09:10 AM <DIR> 10100

10/14/08 09:30 AM <DIR> 2

10/14/08 12:00 PM <DIR> 40

10/14/08 09:10 AM <DIR> 5100

10/14/08 09:30 AM <DIR> 52

10/14/08 09:30 AM <DIR> 60

10/14/08 09:10 AM <DIR> 6000

10/14/08 09:10 AM <DIR> 60100

10/14/08 09:30 AM <DIR> 70

10/14/08 09:10 AM <DIR> 7000

10/14/08 09:10 AM <DIR> 70100

2 things have changed:

One directory being '40' was added.

It contains:

E:\I386\ASMS\40>tree

Folder PATH listing for volume WinLite

Volume serial number is AB92-DC6D

E:.

├───msft

│ ├───msxml4

│ └───msxml4r

└───policy

└───40

└───msft

└───msxml4

Additionally, one file was changed:

E:\I386\ASMS\10\msft\windows\gdiplus\GDIPLUS.CAT

Does this help?

Next: I'll try to overwrite the tweaked files with the original ones.

[johnhc]

pthoma,

-Added SP2

-Added SP3

You only need SP3.

In general you should never nLite the same source more than once.

Good luck, John.