From unexperienced user: silly questions

[ecsec]

Starting out !

The first nlite window asks for the language choice

The following window asks to specify the location of the complete windows package. Here I specify the directory where I copied an original SP1 CD

Then there is the PRESETS windows to choice for a previous installation to be imported. I have nothing to select at this step

The following windows asks to select the tasks to be performed, my choice is to INTEGRATE SERVICE PACK

Then my following window, specifies to me that I am starting with a SP1 version and asks me to select the location of the service pack, I click now the SELECT key

The following window has on the top banner the following specification

SELECT A SERVICE PACK EXECUTABLE (.EXE) OR "i386\update\update.exe"

So this is my problem. (a 1st silly question!)

I downloaded and installed directly from Microsoft Update the SP2 and then the SP3, after installing the SP1 on my disk.

But I don't know WHERE ARE placed MY SERVICE PACKS (or better only the SP3, the more recent one)

If I look inside my WINDOWS directory, I have a directory called SERVICEPACKFILES and inside I have the i386 directory

but inside it there is no UPDATE directory (as suggested, there is only a LANG directory) nor an UPDATE.EXE (again as suggested by the nlite window)

Thus I don't know what I have to specify as SP location to continue my activity to prepare a bootable disk

Thanks a lot for your help and best regards

[Ponch]

When you install a SP on a computer, you don't download the entire service pack, but only the components your computer needs.

When you make a Windows disk, you need to integrate all the components, so you need to download the entire SP from MS's site. SP3 is about 300MB. Don't forget to select the proper language at download. search MS's site www.microsoft.com/downloads .

Edited January 6, 2009 by Ponch

[ecsec]

Thanks Ponch

Actually the problem has been forcasted in your phrase

"Don't forget to select the proper language at download"

After your advice I did the following

1) on MS site I downloaded the complete SP3 choosing, at first, the ITALIAN version

During the nliteing process an error was detected due to incompatibility in the language

2) Fine, so I downloaded the english version, but the same error was detected

3) Good, so as the original CD was an Italian one, I supposed the automatic updated version of SP2 or SP3 that I installed first (according to my previous post) were from an other unknown language

(indeed I supposed the automatic download would have detected the language version before making the download itself, so downloadind the appropriate modules depending on the language, ..... anyway...)

Thus I uninstalled from the APPLICATION INSTALLATION in the CONTROL PANEL, the SP3 than trying to uninstall the SP2 and starting back with the italian SP3 version from the SP1 that is in Italian (or should be, according to the CD labelling)

4) The SP3 was uninstalled but then there was no possibility (in the uninstalling window as appeared before) to uninstall the SP2.

The system indeed is recognised as a WINDOWS XP SP2 version

What do you think about this jam ?

Ciao !

[Stoner81]

Thanks Ponch

Actually the problem has been forcasted in your phrase

"Don't forget to select the proper language at download"

After your advice I did the following

1) on MS site I downloaded the complete SP3 choosing, at first, the ITALIAN version

During the nliteing process an error was detected due to incompatibility in the language

2) Fine, so I downloaded the english version, but the same error was detected

3) Good, so as the original CD was an Italian one, I supposed the automatic updated version of SP2 or SP3 that I installed first (according to my previous post) were from an other unknown language

(indeed I supposed the automatic download would have detected the language version before making the download itself, so downloadind the appropriate modules depending on the language, ..... anyway...)

Thus I uninstalled from the APPLICATION INSTALLATION in the CONTROL PANEL, the SP3 than trying to uninstall the SP2 and starting back with the italian SP3 version from the SP1 that is in Italian (or should be, according to the CD labelling)

4) The SP3 was uninstalled but then there was no possibility (in the uninstalling window as appeared before) to uninstall the SP2.

The system indeed is recognised as a WINDOWS XP SP2 version

What do you think about this jam ?

Ciao !

Man im confussed!! Ok.... so are you trying to slipstream SP3 into your new CD is that what you are after doing? Always start an nLite session with a clean, fresh set of files from your source CD otherwise problems can ensue. Always do it all in one nLite session to for the same reasons.

[Ponch]

Hi,

I was replying to your question;

The following window has on the top banner the following specification

SELECT A SERVICE PACK EXECUTABLE (.EXE) OR "i386\update\update.exe"

So this is my problem. (a 1st silly question!)

But I don't know WHERE ARE placed MY SERVICE PACKS

I suggested you download SP3 and point to it in nLite, I was not suggesting that you reinstall the complete SP3 on your running system. I think you got confused.

If you are making an XP install CD based on italian language original CD, then you need to integrate (only) the italian SP3. I don't know what your running system is (italian as well I guess) but this is not relevant to your nLite operations and you should not uninstall your SP2 nor SP3.

[ecsec]

I understand my last post was not clear, sorry for that

I'll try now to be clearer

I downloaded the SP3, 316 MB named WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU

Itarting Nlite, when specifying to add the SP, from an SP1 Italiano WIN XP PRO copied from the CD to a directory,

going inside the window SELECT an executable .exe SP

is NLITE itself that says to me after the

EXCTRACTING FILES phase

Integrated install failed. The language type or platform for the destination directory and Service Pack 3 must be the same

So this was the reason I tried to uninstall all my previous version on my computer

starting from the beginning to solve this language version problem

Of course no previous saved Nlite attempt has been imported

Thanks

[Ponch]

I downloaded the SP3, 316 MB named WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU

Starting Nlite, when specifying to add the SP, from an SP1 Italiano WIN XP PRO copied from the CD to a directory

I know you said you tried italian before, but in any case, this won't work.