Created image will install but has failures

[Morkeleb]

Hi.

I just create an xp slipstream and it installed but had the following errors:

- Some missing file for msn-messenger (for the next build I will remove the msmsgs=off parameter)

- After the installation it booted up but did not continue after changing the resolution as i configured it)

- I could not see that SP1 was installed isn't it displayed in the System Panel?

- It would not allow me to create users on installation and require login later-on and in the administration settings the whole user admin section would not display with the text (roughly translated):

"Could not access the Computer "ALPHA-DRAGON". Error: Wrong parameter.". Here a Screenshot:

This may also the reason that on the System panel the pages Automatic Update and Remote would not show up.

Also, on running xpcreate it would not download sp2, only sp1. Which I like, but dont know why.

Also the image is a bit too large - about 750 MB. I will remove an application that should be automatically installed, but that will not suffice for 700. (I have Nvidia and Radeon Drivers aswell as Audigy 2 Audio drivers integrated). Any tipps to get the iso smaller without having to drop those drivers?

Here the config files I used:

winnt.sif:

;SetupMgrTag

[Data]

MsDosInitiated="0"

UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[unattended]

UnattendMode=ProvideDefault

OemSkipEula=Yes

OemPreinstall=Yes

OemPnPDriversPath="drivers\000_Disk;drivers\001_Graphic;drivers\002_Audio;drivers\003_Net"

DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

WaitforReboot=No

TargetPath=\WINDOWS

[GuiUnattended]

EncryptedAdminPassword=NO

OEMSkipRegional=0

TimeZone=110

AutoLogon=Yes

AutoLogonCount=1

OemSkipWelcome=1

[userData]

ProductID=XXXX-XXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX

FullName="John Doe"

OrgName="-"

ComputerName=Dragon-Alpha

[Display]

BitsPerPel=32

Xresolution=1024

YResolution=768

Vrefresh=60

[TapiLocation]

CountryCode=43

[RegionalSettings]

LanguageGroup=7,1

[identification]

JoinWorkgroup=DRAGONHOOD

[Networking]

InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

[Components]

msnexplr=off

zonegames=off

[GuiRunOnce]

%systemdrive%\install.cmd

Where I have install in FILESCD\$OEM$\$1\install.cmd (well, with the tested

iso I had it named install.txt - i guess i forgot changing to .cmd after editing)

with the content:

@echo off

echo Installiere Acrobat Reader

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Acrobat Reader\AdbeRdr60_deu_full.exe -p"-s /v\"/qn\""

XPCREATE.INI:

[XPCREATE]

BOOTIMGFILE=D:\xpcd\xpbootimage\xpbootimage.bin

COPYSOURCE=NO

DELROOT=NO

DOCABS=YES

DLAUTO=NO

DLURL=http://xpcreate.wiretapped.us/HFLISTS

DOCD=NO

DOISO=YES

DOPATH=NO

DOSVCPACK=YES

EXITQUIET=NO

OVERWRITEOEM=YES

SILENTINSTALL=YES

SLIPHF1=YES

SLIPHF2=YES

SLIPMDC=YES

SLIPSPK=YES

XPISO=XPCREATE.ISO

XPSOURCE=

Where first I had the DLAUTO on YES, but I had to manually

download tho files (SVC-HF1\WindowsXP-KB842773-v2-x86-deu.exe and SVC-X2M\mm20deu.exe) and turn it off so it would stop bugging me.

(Thanx for the help on the other thread on this!)

I hope you can help me out with this.

Thanx in advance,

Morkeleb

[GreenMachine]

Sorry ... but I have to repeat myself here. If your ISO is so big, you are obviously installing other applications and whatnot. I don't believe that the drivers themselves add so much. So ... First make a FailSafe CD, using only the hotfixes listed onthe Web Site/Current Hotfixes. Once that is working, go from there, step at a time, and you will find out what is causing your problems.

For future reference ... please include your files in either CODE Blocks, or, better yet, as attachments. For general information, the only file I tend to read is LOGFILES.CAB, and occasionally XPCREATE.LOG (If LOGFILES.CAB was not created due to a critical error): attaching or quoting the other files rarely does any good, and just annoys me ...

[Morkeleb]

Hi.

Well, the prepared directories with the drivers are surely about 100mb in size (30 and 20 mb for video drivers, 50 mb audio drivers).

All the other stuff that makes it larger was downloaded by your script (thus, sp1 and the patches).

So automatically letting xpcreate letting download the patch-list is not failsafe?

The currenly auto-downloaded list - does it contain sp2 or only sp1?

If the first it the case, do you have an explanation why it only downloaded sp1?

Also in noticed that in the system panel it did not display Service Pack 1 text indicating sp1 is installed under the "Windows XP Professional Version 2002" text.

Why could that be?

To make a failsafe cd I just extract a clean xpcreate, copy the original xp cd in the right folder, set the existing config file to download a specific file i got from here and let xpcreate do the work?

Thanx in Advance

[Morkeleb]

Well, i'm trying to create a bare slipstream cd.

While running the script it had the following error:

...

-- 18:20:20 --> Checking sub-directories.

Failure renaming "N:\xpcd\xpcreate\TEMP\DUMMY\ASMS\60".

ERROR 5: Zugriff verweigert

-- 18:20:22 --> RoyalBox's SVCPACK.INF Creator

-- 18:20:28 --> Adding SATA/RAID support.

-- 18:20:28 --> Cannot find DRIVERS directory.

-- 18:20:28 --> Update uncompressed versions.

-- 18:20:29 --> ntdll.dll Found in both WORKDIR and I386.

-- 18:20:29 --> ntdll.dll Found in both WORKDIR and I386\SYSTEM32.

-- 18:20:30 --> Compressing all the hotfix Files.

-- 18:26:00 --> Put all the files for the CD together

-- 18:39:29 --> Create an ISO image

...

Do you know if this is serious?

Should I do something about it - if yes, what?

Also I have another issue.

I want to change a compressed file someting.xx_

Decopressing it is no problem,

but how to I compress it back to .xx_ after changing?

Thanx in advance,

Lukas

PS: the confusion about not installed sp1 was because

I accidentally overwrote the cdsource folder with the original cd again.

LOGFILES.CAB

[frankiboy_01]

[...]

Also I have another issue.

I want to change a compressed file someting.xx_

Decopressing it is no problem,

but how to I compress it back to .xx_ after changing?

The utility is named "compress.exe" (from Microsoft).

See: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;314958

The tool is included in the Resource Kit (or just google for it).

Greetings.

[Morkeleb]

Hi again.

I found a copy of compress.exe and

compressed the modified file again.

Then I ran xpcreate to build me an ISO.

I installed xp on a virtual machine, and

basically the installation went through, but

an error was displayed:

It was told that the file I modified was

copied incorrectly. I skipped over it and

the installation finished.

After that I looked for the file and it was preset.

How can I tell windows that the file I modified

is ok so it does not bug me about it when I install?

Also I now had another strange phenomenon:

Every time I boot up (tried 2 times) the system logs

the Administrator in.

I configured the winnt.sif to have pre-filled-in

settings that the user can change however on installation.

I installed the disk driver pack btw and it went ok btw,

but I did not use the GuiRunOnce section.

Maybe you find a flaw in my winnt.sif?

Thanx in Advance!

winnt.sif

[GreenMachine]

You will need to use MODIFYPE or similar to "fix" any files that you compress your self. However, you really shold not need to: when you start needing these work arounds, there is generally a "real" problem that you are not seeing.

For the moment, the automatic download lists are not up to date. To create a failsafe CD, get the correct versions of the files listed on the Web Site, and try that. Also, try without the drivers, and add them one at a time.

Please post back your results, and include LOGFILES.CAB if you run into errors.