Professor Frink Posted November 1, 2004 Share Posted November 1, 2004 My network installation has been working great, but now I'm trying to turn it into a DVD installation for someone, and not everything is working right, such as the Luna theme not being installed by default. I get a weird hybrid of Luna and Classic. The attached picture shows how the desktop looks after it's all done.In the Resources\Themes folder, I have a Luna folder and a "Luna.theme" file, but the classic theme file is just "classic.the". And in the Luna folder I only get "luna.mst". So some of the theme files are not copying/installing properly. But why? Like I said, this is a direct copy of my well-oiled machine of a network installation. If it helps, here is my winnt.sif:;SetupMgrTag[Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" floppyless="1" EulaComplete="1" AutomaticUpdates=0[Unattended] UnattendSwitch="yes" UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes TargetPath=\WINNT Hibernation=no FileSystem="ConvertNTFS" Repartition=Yes ExtendOEMPartition=1 DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore OEMPnPDriversPath="WINNT\Drivers\GX270\1Chipset\INF;WINNT\Drivers\GX270\2Network\Pro1000\WinXP;WINNT\Drivers\GX270\3Video\GeFor64\6176;WINNT\Drivers\GX270\4Audio\ADI198x\SMAXWDM\W2K_XP;WINNT\Drivers\GX270\5Monitor\1901FP"[GuiUnattended] AdminPassword="xxxxxxxx" EncryptedAdminPassword=NO AutoLogon=Yes AutoLogonCount=1 OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=35 OemSkipWelcome=1[GuiRunOnce] C:\post.bat[UserData] ProductID=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx FullName="blah blah" OrgName="blah blah" ComputerName=WORKSTATION[Display] BitsPerPel=16 Xresolution=1280 YResolution=1024 Vrefresh=60[Components] msnexplr=off msmsgs=off Freecell=off Hearts=off Minesweeper=off Pinball=off Solitaire=off Spider=off ZoneGames=off[TapiLocation] CountryCode=1 AreaCode=717[FavoritesEx] Title1="Google.url" URL1="http://www.google.com/"[Branding] BrandIEUsingUnattended="Yes"[Identification] JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP[Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes[NetAdapters] Adapter1=params.Adapter1[params.Adapter1] INFID=*[NetClients] MS_MSClient=params.MS_MSClient[NetServices] MS_SERVER=params.MS_SERVER[NetProtocols] MS_TCPIP=params.MS_TCPIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoControl Posted November 1, 2004 Share Posted November 1, 2004 (edited) I think that your filenames are being cut off to the 8.3 format either during burning to DVD or during copying with installation. (Network installation may treat these files/filenames differently because it's another medium altogether.)There is a solution for this. I currently don't have access to ref.chm from the deployment tools, but I think there's a section in there explaining giving setup a clue about the long file names... search it [edit]the file that specifies long filenames for the 8.3 format of them is $$rename.txt, search the forum for it read these threads on this forum:http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=25154&st=10 (especially fourth post)http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?act=ST&f=70&t=18499[/edit] Edited November 1, 2004 by NoControl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Frink Posted November 1, 2004 Author Share Posted November 1, 2004 I could try that. But I didn't think that it was necessary for the main i386 files. Just as an example, the file "COFFEEBN.BM_" turns into "Coffee Bean.bmp". So shouldn't it work properly for all the others?Not that I don't appreciate the suggestion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Frink Posted November 3, 2004 Author Share Posted November 3, 2004 bump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oioldman Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 see the topic:http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...yale"&st=0use it as a base and you'll be fine.read in particular the instructions by ToBe, page2, and mazin, page3I've followed them and it did work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHz Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 No [shell] entry for the above solution?Does this has a runonceex or guirunonce?If so, when is it rebooting after these processes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Frink Posted November 4, 2004 Author Share Posted November 4, 2004 But I'm still a little confused. Since the Luna files are in the i386 folder by default, shouldn't they all copy over and install properly, long filename or not? Remember, I'm not doing any theme tweaking, I just want it to be "normal". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueSpear Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 I could be totally off base here, but is this happening on a slow computer? I've seen it before where XP is set to automatically adjust visual effects. I have about 8 old Gateways (Pentium 233MMX, 256MB RAM) at work. They just won't die so I use em, but I set the visual effects to best performance mode to speed them up. Maybe this reg setting is doing it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHz Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 If you reboot before prematurely before first logon, then you do not get your theme. No matter what theme you pick or not. I experienced this and you may have experienced it also? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Frink Posted November 5, 2004 Author Share Posted November 5, 2004 RogueSpear -- nope, it's pretty new and powerful. (P4 2.8, 512 RAM)MHz -- as far as I know, the only thing I have control over is the reboot at the end of my application batch file (the one called from GUIRunOnce). And I currently have it set at 60 seconds. Plus, that can't be it because while it's waiting to reboot it's sitting on the desktop, and I can see that the theme is already munged up. Unless there's a way to control the very first reboot, after XP installs? This never happened to me during all of my network installations.*bangs head on desk* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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