EMKAY Posted January 2, 2005 Share Posted January 2, 2005 I fancy creating a restorable disk image (using something like ghost) that is basically a 4gb fat32 drive partition with the all XP SP2 media; application ad installation scripts stored locally. This would be like the computers that ship with a recovery partition, the image is restored and then the unattended install of xp would be initiated.I wouldn't need to worry about the $OEM$ structure because all the files would already be in the right place and the I386 source files would remain locally on the hard disk if the user wanted to add additional components.A few issues encountered already -1. can't seem to use cmdlines.txt2. winnt.exe first seems to copy all the files again to a temp directory - is there something that can tell it it's files are local already and cut down on this time ?3. sourcepath in registry still reflects that it has been installed from a cdrom4. boot.ini leaves entries behind for previous versions of windowsany help appreciated, thanks,Em Kay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Zugec Posted January 3, 2005 Share Posted January 3, 2005 Well, if I understand right, U R not using right strategy - U should create typical unattended, but personalize OOBE for specific user settings (thats the way that companies like HP, Dell etc. use) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMKAY Posted January 3, 2005 Author Share Posted January 3, 2005 1. can't use cmdlines.txt fixed this, you still need $oem$ under the I386 directory to use cmdlines.txteverything seems to be working great - just need to stop windows copying all the files from c:\I386 to a temp directory during the text setup modehow can I convince it all the required files are already in c:\i386 ??thanks,Em Kay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prathapml Posted January 3, 2005 Share Posted January 3, 2005 @EMKAYHey, here's exactly what you might be looking for... You will have a huge saving of time too in your case, if you follow the reducing size of source method by gosh. Of course, he refers to a CD.... you should make use of such instructions in the context of your install from HD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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