Adding MCE 2005 Install Files on first CD?

[chowyungfatso]

Hi All, Found the site on Friday, and basically spent my weekend reading the forum and following the instructions on the unattended site to create my MCE 2005 disk. Two questions:

1. Is there a way to put the Media Center install files (mediactr.cab, plus.cab and sonic.cab), which is on CD 2 under the "\cmpnents\mediactr\i386" folder on the the XPCD build so I can integrate it on one CD? Is it a matter of editing TXTSETUP file?

[SourceDisksNames.x86]
1  = %cdname%,%cdtagfilei%,,\i386
2 = "%cd2name%","%cd2tagfilei%",,\cmpnents\tabletpc\i386
3 = "%cd2name%","%cd2tagfilei%",,\cmpnents\mediactr\i386
4 = "%cd2name%","%cd2tagfilei%",,\cmpnents\netfx\i386
100 = %spcdname%,%spcdtagfilei%,,\i386,1
_1    = %bootname1%,"%boottagfile1%",,""
_2    = %bootname2%,"%boottagfile2%",,""
_3    = %bootname3%,"%boottagfile3%",,""
_4    = %bootname4%,"%boottagfile4%",,""
_5    = %bootname5%,"%boottagfile5%",,""
_6    = %bootname6%,"%boottagfile6%",,""
1_    = %bootname1%,"%boottagfile1%",,""
2_    = %bootname2%,"%boottagfile2%",,""
3_    = %bootname3%,"%boottagfile3%",,""
4_    = %bootname4%,"%boottagfile4%",,""
5_    = %bootname5%,"%boottagfile5%",,""
6_    = %bootname6%,"%boottagfile6%",,""

I saw this in the file when I searched for "mediactr":

medctroc.dll      = 100,,,,,,,32,0,0
medctroc.inf      = 100,,,,,,,20,0,0
mediactr.cat      = 100,,,,,,,,3,3
ehOCGen.dll   = 100,,,,,,,32,0,0
sonic.inf     = 100,,,,,,,20,0,0
sonic.cat     = 100,,,,,,,,3,3
sonic.cab     = 3,,,,,,_x,,3,3

plusoc.dll   = 100,,,,,,,32,0,0
plusoc.inf   = 100,,,,,,,20,0,0
plus.cat     = 100,,,,,,,,3,3
plus.cab     = 3,,,,,,_x,,3,3



custsat.dll       = 100,,,,,,,240,0,0


mediactr.cab      = 3,,,,,,_x,,3,3

or is Layout.inf the file to edit?

I put the cmpnents folder under the XPCD folder thinking that would work (I guess I was too optimistic). On my install, the MCE stuff was not loaded, although it seemed that everything else was loaded.

I saw the two CD install post, but that's not what i am trying to shoot for as I can fit the MCE stuff on one CD.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=8381&st=0

2. Anyone suggest a way to integrate the adding of the necessary materials to allow MCE 2005 to join a domain as noted in this Rafael's scratch-pad article?

http://67.21.149.202:8080/

[Tsunami]

Have you spent any time reading the forum as well? If you have, you must have found the search. If you set Search posts from... to Any date and search for MCE2005, you will find a topic called "Integrate MCE 2005 into XP SP2?". The second post will explain what to do to integrate CD2 in CD1.

[totoymola]

I combined the conetens of the two cds, and it installs without a problem.

[chowyungfatso]

Thanks! I have been reading the forums, and I must have not searched properly. I went to the advanced search and changed the date--voila!

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...to+XP+SP2"

which also referenced this article:

http://board.iexbeta.com/index.php?showtopic=43980

Man, do I feel like an id***...

I'll have to look into this, as I did have the cmpnents folder on the same level as the i386 folder (the root of the XPCD folder). totoymola, do you mean you put the cabs/etc. into the i386 folder itself? Please elaborate a little.

Now, if I can get the DVD boot to work properly, or maybe even install MCE 2005 on top of Windows Server 2003...

[totoymola]

totoymola, do you mean you put the cabs/etc. into the i386 folder itself? Please elaborate a little.

Just copy the everything in CD1 to a folder. Then copy the contents of CD2 to that folder too. That's all. Don't move the cab files inside the CMPNENTS folder to your I386.