CDBuilder - tool for creating unattended CD's

[kenedy]

This tool (AutoIt script) is for quickly creating unattended Windows CD’s

It might be useful if you create unattended CD’s with different configurations frequently.

Features:

- allows to select which software/drivers/registry settings to add to CD (selected items will be installed automatically, of course)

- allows to create multiple answer files on CD

Actually, better look at screenshots to see what it can do.

Choose configuration to use (you can create them yourself):

Select options:

Select items:

Create answer files:

CD Boot menu:

Tool itself: http://www.freewebtown.com/kenedy/CDBuilder/CDBuilder.zip

It’s not working “out-of-the-box”, you have to provide all information about drivers/software etc. first. All configuration is stored in ini files.

Might be buggy, I changed a lot of code this weekend (to make it more easy to use)

Known bugs:

If only one type of drivers is selected (e.g. only LAN drivers), OemPnPDriversPath string is not created correctly

If you put CDBuilder very deep in directory structure, SETUPLDR’s are not created and booting do not work. “Desktop” is fine, deeper is not.

[nemesis5]

this ist a very good idea.. i will testing this...

[Bilou_Gateux]

Question about "Compress Drivers" in the main windows :

would all the selected drivers been compressed in a rar self extractive archive put on the CD ?

All differents drivers in a single archive or if i select 5 different drivers, they would have each one an SFX archive ?

Question about "Create Answer Files" windows :

The selected parameters would be added to the default WINNT.SIF in files\Windows2000 ?

just small change to Windows 2000 WINNT.SIF :

default TargetPath=\WINNT rather than WINDOWS

[kenedy]

>>would all the selected drivers been compressed in a rar self extractive archive put on the CD ?

Yes. And they will be automatically extracted in DetachedProgram

>>All differents drivers in a single archive or if i select 5 different drivers, they would have each one an SFX archive ?

One archive.

>>The selected parameters would be added to the default WINNT.SIF in files\Windows2000 ?

No. It's not using winnt.sif. It creates files wi001.sif, wi002.sif etc

>>just small change to Windows 2000 WINNT.SIF :

default TargetPath=\WINNT rather than WINDOWS

I like "Windows" better But you can change it. This file contains default values for any answer file created.

Edited October 4, 2004 by kenedy