Profile Path and Drivers Questions

[darrell87]

Hello all,

I am attempting to make an unattended Windows XP Pro x86 recovery cd for my step sister and brother in law(all legal, they have an oem key sticker on the computer). I am using the latest Nlite v1.4.9.1 I have had no problem utilizing what I need of the Nlite tools, but, I have two outstanding questions.

First, I would like to move their My Documents and Settings to a different drive say E:\(for demonstration I will change it when I know what the letter will be). That way if their computer screws up again the nlite disc will just latch on to their old docs. I have attempted to edit the Profile Path area in the options section to say E:\, but, I do not know wehter it works that easy. To make it easy I am attaching a copy of my last session ini where I attempted the change(I am uploading all of them, I made the change at 9 something PM my time and I think it is the one without numbers). A will also attach a copy of my winnt.sif I saw being used in a similar discussion though I will tell you now it says nothing about my attempted change. Finally, I will attach a screen shot of what I have tried to do, so you can see what I see.

Second, I believe I have successfully figured out how to integrate drivers, but, I have a concern. Most of the drivers for their computer came encapsulated in .EXE's and I was able to extract their contents for Nlite, but, at least one of them(for the chip set) lumped all the drivers for all the versions of Windows supported including x86 and x64 into the same folder which I gave nlite. Normally, the installer is supposed to figure it out, but, I assume we are bypassing that logic. My concern is whether or not Nlite or the Windows XP Installer will always use the right XP pro x86 ones(they are in their too).

Also, does anybody know if RunOnce supports the "AT" command for scheduling events under XP Pro.

Thank you for any help,

-Darrell Lewis

Last Session (205604.04-18.20.52).ini

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Edited April 5, 2010 by darrell87

[Ponch]

For your first point, you've done it right. Only warning I can give is that if there is no E: drive accessible before install (if you use that disc on an other computer or after repartitioning), XP setup will crash. This is according to your example (I mean probably the complete path up to \documents and settings\ should exist, I can't confirm that, but in your example, "E:\" should be enough).

2nd point, when getting the drivers in nLite, you should delete those that are not specifically for your system, like for Win2000, XP X64 or others. You can do that when they are displayed in the drivers window. But I think it is not that bad if you leave them, it will just bloat your cd, XP will only use those that are needed.

I've never used the RunOnce option so I'll leave it to someone else to answser that one.

[johnhc]

darrell87, the RunOnce exit in the Unattended section should run any command prompt command. The easiest thing to do is call a batch file (.bat) and include what you need. On the drivers, you want to make sure you do not point nLite to x64 drivers. One possible big problem is that you are running nLite under Vista (or W7) to create an ISO for XP. This is probably not going to work if you integrate a Service Pack, which you are. Enjoy, John.