Gagorian Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 Is there a way to make XPCREATE automatically strip the folders SUPPORT, VALUEADDS, SETUPTXT, LANGS and so on from the ISO? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilou_Gateux Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 The method i use to avoid the copy and integration of these folders into built CD.Create an ISO image with an imaging tool like LC ISO Creator of your source CD on your hard drive.remove the unwanted folders from the image and save it with a CD/DVD image file edit tool.Mount the image as virtual CD with tools like FileDisk (console tool) or DAEMON Tools (GUI)Set XPSOURCE=<VirtualCD_Drive_Letter> in XPCreate.iniVoilà !If you have Nero 6, you can do all the required steps with Nero Burning ROM and Nero Image Drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitfrotter Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 The method I use is to copy the contents of the XP cdrom to the harddrive and delete the unwanted directories. I have a directory called D:\Source\WXPSP2 and that only contains the root of the cdrom and the I386 Directory. Set XPSOURCE=D:\Source\WXPSP2 in the XPCreate.ini file. There is no need to create ISO file and to mount this iso to a driveletter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeMSFN Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 I too use this copy CD to hard drive method.What I do/did is copy my SP0 files to my hard drive, perform a slipstream to SP2 on those folders, copy that to a folder to something called "XPSP2-use" and modify that "use" folder.That way, I don't have to wait for the slipstreaming of SP2 (plus I heard the result will be smaller if you slipstream from RTM or gold or SP0 without all that SP1 / 1a business). Then if I mangle my "use" folder, (like being a tad to agressive with my file/folder pruning), I can just copy the "full" version back to it.Oddly enough, the boot image for the CD has dissappeared from the more recent distro of XPCREATE I'm using. Fortunately I kept the image from an older one.Um... So to actually answer your question , YES!But you'll have to learn to program .cmd files and edit "xpcreate.cmd" or just do what I and the others have suggested. However our methods involve tying up a decent chunk of your HD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prathapml Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 I believe editing the XPCREATE.cmd files is restricted - that's what GreenMachine had said somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilou_Gateux Posted January 15, 2005 Share Posted January 15, 2005 @GMSeems to be a request from a lot of XPCreate users.Can you modify the :COPYSOURCE subroutine to xcopy only root files and the i386 folder from the source to CDROOT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homiebrah Posted January 15, 2005 Share Posted January 15, 2005 This may not be an XPCREATE solution, but nLite would fulfill this task. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenMachine Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 The simplest solution is to run XPCREATE a first time, and then modify the contents of the CDSOURCE directory to fit your particular needs. I will not be attempting a selective delete, or copy, of files, as this will restrict the portability of XPCREATE, and require reviewing and possible updating with every new hotfix. Sorry Bilou ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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