Hello,

First of all I want to thank you

This is a great website..

I wanted to do a unattend windows xp cd (+some applications, microsft office..)

I follow all the steps of the tutorial..

I wanted to load my iso image on virtual pc, then i get :

CD BOOT : could'nt find ntdlr

That means that I have forgotten something..

Can someone help me ?

Thanks

Greg

hum.. not sure you are in the right forum ... anyway here it goes:

you have to enter the BIOS of your virtual machine by pressing F2 at startup and then make sure your CDROM is the first boot device.

Hello,

I think that this is OK because I boot on my iso file, I think that the problem cames from the iso file, I don't how to make it really bootable, maybe I have missed one or more files

Greg

Greg, try mounting your image onto a virtual drive with daemon tools and set the BIOS (press F2) to boot from this drive

How did you make your Iso image?

did you use CD Image Pro? if not try it

http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/finish.htm

Hello,

Dynamite --> I have done this manipulation, same result (booting from iso loaded in daemon tool)

BritishBuldog---> I've made my iso with cd image pro from the msfn unantend website..

BUt I think that there is a problem with my iso file, do we need to add something in order to boot on it ?

For infos here is my xpcd root folder :

My original xp cd is with sp1 integrated, and the original cd works... so maybe I've just missed to add a file to my xp cd unanttend

Greg

from the looks of your screenshot, you have not slipstreamed SP2 into it, as there is no .sp2 file, but a .sp1 file.

unattended CDs need SP2 to operate

Well, did you use the proper setting in nero with your boot sector?

EDIT: sorry, I just realised you are building an ISO image...

@Mekrel

There is no need to slipstream SP2 to operate an Unattended CD

sounds like something is wrong with the xpboot.img in cd image pro.

try downloading again.

and you do not need sp2 to make an unattended cd....

Hello,

I've downloaded again cd image pro, same result

Is there another software for make an iso bootable file ?

Greg

is the ntldr file in your i386 directory?

what does the structure of the ISO look like?

what have you got in the .cmd file to make the image in CDImage Pro

can you post this info..

Hello,

1 - Yes

2 - The structure of the ISO is like the screen that i have posted above

3 - In the cmd file I just have changed the path (d:\xpcd instead of c:\xpcd)

can you post a copy of your cmd file.

so in the iso you have the i386 directly in the root?

the picture had the folder

j:!!Methode MSFN\XPCD

in it and the cmd has D:\XPCD??

Hello,

Sorry I have no internet at the moment (i'm at work)

For infos I have in the iso i386 directly in the root

j:!!Methode MSFN\XPCD

--> This is on another pc...

Looks a little complicated I post you my files since I have my internet connection again

Do you need other infos ?

post the contents of your cmd that you use to make the iso