Unexpected Error

[Edi]

Hi you all. I have read this msfn unnatended guide (pdf) for several days now. Trying to make things a lot easier for me in future. Then i discovered this XPCreate thing. But something is wrong.

Here is a log file. I inspecred this cmd file and i cannot figure out, is problem in PRODSPEC.INI or something i'm doing wrong.

I want to make an iso file, drive W: has XP prof SP1 slipstreamed cd inserted, in $oem$ folder i have only 4 files:

autologon.reg ->

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"DefaultUserName"="Kasutaja"
"DefaultPassword"=""
"AutoAdminLogon"="1"

***
cmdlines.txt ->

[COMMANDS]
"useraccounts.cmd"
"REGEDIT /S regtweaks.reg"

***
regtweaks.reg containing some registry tweaks and then
***
useraccounts.cms -> 

net user Kasutaja /add
net localgroup Administrators Kasutaja /add
net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited
REGEDIT /S autologon.reg
EXIT

Also i have made winnt.sif and put it in i386 folder.

And all i see xpcreate.cmd saying, is:

C:\XPCreate>XPCREATE.CMD
--  9:23:57 --> Looking for CD Source.
--  9:23:58 --> Trying to extract the Boot Image.
--  9:23:58 --> Setting up Run-Time Variables.
--  9:23:59 --> Listing Hotfixes and Updates.
--  9:24:04 --> Removing Previous Creation Directories.
--  9:24:04 --> Removing TEMP Files.
--  9:24:05 --> Creating TEMP directories.
--  9:24:06 --> Determine Source Version.
Ā was unexpected at this time.

Anyone can help/guide ?

Edited: xpcreate.log != XPCREATE.LOG, my bad. FAR showed me small letters.

[GreenMachine]

I saved XPCREATE.LOG from the link above, and much to my dismay it was an HTML page, not a log file at all. Please attach the file LOGFILES.CAB, and I will look at it. Furthermore, if you have not tried a failsafe XPCREATE run, with only the hotfixes listed on the Current Hotfixes page, please do so first (i.e. NO custom REG/CMD files.)

[Edi]

I updated links, my bad. Should have been test after posting.

[GreenMachine]

Looks like a little bug in the code to determine source language. Ooops. Unfortunatly, I won't have much time this month to go over that code. Sorry... I'll post when updating the next version. Thanks for the report!

(Unexpected Error ... Geez, I wonder what an Expected Error looks like ... I'm making fun of them, not you Edi!)

[Edi]

in I386\PRODSPEC.INI i have 32 lines of space and then:

;
;Note to user: DO NOT ALTER OR DELETE THIS FILE.
;
[SMS Inventory Identification]
Version=1.0

[Product Specification]
Product=Windows XP Professional

Version=5.0
Localization=English
ServicePackNumber=0
BitVersion=40
[Version]
DriverVer=07/01/2001,5.1.2600.0

(it should be an english version of XP Prof Corp, SP1 slipstreamed)

hope this helps. (no, i do not like estonian version of XP - it su*ks, i cannot understand it.)

[GreenMachine]

I know how you feel: I cannot understand the Estonian version, either!

More seriously, I should have paid better attention to the log file. I really wish that happened on a foreign version. The next question is what version are you running this on? It looks like English sometimes, but other times it seems to be a mixture. I think the problem lies there somehow. Specifically, look at the output of the directory listings. The text is English, but the numbers have strange characters instead of commas:

2ÿ604ÿ769ÿ280 bytes free

Any more clues you can give me?

[Edi]

Hi. And thank you for your ideas.

As i live in estonia, i have different locale settings and this comma thing is different. I changed keyboard layout and input locales to english, but it didn't helped. Also i updated log file - now there are commas between numbers. (new run from different machine)

I should find some win98se machine to test on it. Here i'm using xp prof, installed from the same sp1 slipstreamed i have for xpcreate.

See the difference: English versus Estonian, but changing this didn't helped me.

[GreenMachine]

Hmmm. No answer for you at the moment, but I'll keep you posted. Anyone else with a ... different ... language experiencing this kind of problem? If so, what language.

Also, you'll need 2K/XP/2K3 (not sure about NT) as the delayed expansion is a critical part of the code (!VARIABLE! vs %VARIABLE%). WIN9X/ME wont cut it.

[Edi]

I found temporary solution for me: installed win2k in virtual pc. Currently xpcreate is downloading SP2 for itself. Looks like it's working. (win2k in virtual pc is "default" english install, no updates, no aditional components, no nothing.) See pic. Thank you for your work. (is it possible to create still xpsp1 iso?)

-Alvar

[GreenMachine]

Sure it is possible: the program hasn't changed. Just add the files you want, and set DLAUTO=NO.