Custom SP2

[ykolomiyets]

Does anybody know where i can get SFXCAB.EXE?

as far as i understand this is the program used to package new hotfixes (type 1)/service packs. IExpress is the older program to create cab sfx archives and it's icluded with XP. but there's no mention of sfxcab.exe anywhere? i can open SP2 with power archiver, but it doesn't let me add files because it says that it is a solid archive. even if i got it to work i would (probably) lose the digital signature of the file.

what i'm trying to do is repackage SP2 with custom netfw.inf files so that i get firewall settings with the install through SUS.

ideas anyone? i'm all out.

Thanks,

Yuri

[XtremeMaC]

i think u can use winrar sfx and call up

i386/update/update.exe

never tried though...

hmm wait I think power archiver handles this better. yes yes it also has an option to run after extraction

wait

wait why r u doing it this way?

1. attended: u can extract the files from sp2 exe, modify netfw.inf and just run update.exe from network, sus or cd...

2. unattended: slipstream sp2 to the cd, put the modified netfw.inf file to the cd too, then run setup.

Edited August 24, 2004 by XtremeMaC

[ykolomiyets]

I'm using SUS because that's the way we roll updates to the users on the network, and a far as i know that's the only trully unattended way to do it.

that thing only takes packaged updates from MS, so there's no way to run update with switches of an unpacked installation.

i didn't manage to put the package back togeter with RAR, Power Archiver or any other, so i'm still looking for SFXCAB.EXE and hoping that it would work.

Thanks

[erpdude8]

[quote name='ykolomiyets' post='175944' date='Aug 25 2004, 08:20 AM']that thing only takes packaged updates from MS, so there's no way to run update with switches of an unpacked installation.
i didn't manage to put the package back togeter with RAR, Power Archiver or any other, so i'm still looking for SFXCAB.EXE and hoping that it would work.[/quote]

unfortunately, ykolomiyets, SFXCAB.EXE is not available anywhere and only Microsoft can make SFXCAB packages.

Quote from Gurgelmeyer-

[quote name='Gurgelmeyer' post='310133' date='Apr 24 2005, 04:11 AM']SFXCAB's are created only by Microsoft, and there are no tools, no documentation or anything else available to help others create SFXCAB's.

The /integrate option btw is passed to UPDATE.EXE, which then examines the UPDATE.INF and does the slipstream - SFXCAB.EXE doesn't do much itself really. /integrate will FAIL if UPDATE.INF is not "signed" - that is, if it does not contain a reference to a Microsoft signed .CAT file with a checksum of the .INF itself. You'll need to "help" UPDATE.EXE overcome this and similar other "shortcomings" just to make it do anything at all btw. [/quote]

Edited June 30, 2006 by erpdude8