Testing My Ua Cd

[Ctwizzy]

Ok so im testing my uA cd. Image is created using CDIMAGE, and testing in MS Virtual PC 2004.

ran across a few errors in winnt.sif, fixed those now ive come to an error I cant explain.

Im getting the chose a partition screen, yet I don't have these in my winnt.sif

[Data]
AutoPartition=0

[Unattended]
FileSystem=*

this is my winnt

[Data]
AutoPartition=1
MsDosInitiated="0"
UnattendedInstall="Yes"
AutomaticUpdates=yes

[Unattended]
UnattendMode=FullUnattended
OemSkipEula=Yes
OemPreinstall=Yes
TargetPath=\WINDOWS
UnattendSwitch="yes"
Repartition=No
WaitForReboot="No"
AutoActivate = Yes
KeyboardLayout="Canadian English (Multilingual)"

[GuiUnattended]
AdminPassword=*
EncryptedAdminPassword=NO
AutoLogon=Yes
AutoLogonCount=1
OEMSkipRegional=1
TimeZone=35
OemSkipWelcome=1

[UserData]
ProductKey=XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX
FullName="Chris"
OrgName="Home"
ComputerName=Chris

[Display]
BitsPerPel=32
Xresolution=1152
YResolution=864
Vrefresh=85

[TapiLocation]
CountryCode=107

[Networking]
InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

[Components]
msmsgs=off
msnexplr=off
zonegames=off

[WindowsFirewall]
Profiles = WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall

[WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall]
Mode = 0

[GuiRunOnce]
;this is for WPI
%systemdrive%\install\install.cmd
%systemdrive%\install\cleanup.cmd

Any ideas? thanks!

[jbm]

You have AutoPartition=1 which tells setup to install on the first

partition that doesn't already contain an install of windows.

And Repartition=NO which tells setup not to repartition the drive.

So if your drive allready has windows installed then you'll be asked

to choose a partition. Change Repartiton=yes should do what you want.

Personally I prefer to choose the partition myself because I don't

want the wrong drive being formatted.

[Ctwizzy]

Ok thanks, thats 1 problem done. Im sure there will be more so ill keep the community updated

[Ctwizzy]

I posted this in the WPI thread, but no one seems to be able to understand my problem, and it doesnt totally have to do with WPI.

So I made my CD ISO, mounted it on my PC in drive G:, I then turned on my VM, went to CD and "use physical drive G:". This boots the ISO and installs XP, then my WPI came up on first boot.

Now I selected all my apps to see which ones would fail, and which would succeed. Well All failed pretty much. None of them could find the files, all said

Windows cannot find "D:\Software\Adobe\Acrobat\..."

Well of course not, my apps are all on my ISO in the G: drive..., but my VM doesnt have a G: only a D: which is a DVD drive.

my WPI looks like this:

%cdrom%\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\7.0\acroread7sl.exe

so I understand why its screwing up, just dont know how to fix this.

Thanks!

[Alanoll]

are your programs really in %CDROM%\Software?

The "D:\Software...." line is correct. Keep in mind, the VM does nto use the same drive letters as your physical PC. In the VM's mind, your physical G: drive IS the D: drive in the system. It mounts the contents of the G: drive to D: within the VM.

[Ctwizzy]

C:\XPCD\Software\

thats the path

then in VM i start the virtual machine and go into the menu and say CD -> Use Physical Drive G: (this is referring to my Main machine not the VM) the VM launches, installs, then goes to wpi where nothing works. Once windows loads I see the D: drive and it shows nothing in it...

So I am not sure whats going on?

Also does anyone know if I can test JUST my WPI? Everytime I do the uA cd it takes 50 mins to even get to WPI, and testing my apps is a pain when it takes 50 mins to get to them.

Thanks!

[Ctwizzy]

Anyone? This has put a huge halt in progress, so if anyone knows what I can do to fix this let me know.

[Kelder]

%cdrom%\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\7.0\acroread7sl.exe

C:\XPCD\Software\

Those are really contradicting, but my guess is you'll need to use

%cdrom%\XPCD\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\7.0\acroread7sl.exe

in your WPI script

If it's really C:\XPCD\Software then just type that. This is probably only the case if you have it on the cd in the folder \$OEM$\$1\XPCD\Software, which I doubt since you want to run the installers from CD.

[Ctwizzy]

...

the ISO is made from C:\XPCD, where the Software folder would be C:\XPCD\Software

So then it would be %cdrom%\Software for the ISO...

[Alanoll]

I'm leaning toward a problem with VirtualPC. When it restarts, it MAY reset the drive and need remounting, though this doesn't make sense with setup....

but just looking, the paths look correct. Perhaps try in the VMWare trial?

[Ctwizzy]

Ok thanks Allanol ill try that.

On the side note, is there anyway I can just test my WPI in a virtual machine w/o having to use the uA. I dont want to install windows everytime to test its taking hours in the VM.