Good News and bad

[Railman5]

Well

The good news is that I have just got me a new lap top with xp pro installed (by Elonex)

the bad news is that the disk I got was a recovery disk - i.e. not an oem disk of xp pro.

this make the difficult task of me seperating out the files so I can build a uanattended CD.

I have attached a thumbnail of a snapshot of the disk.

has anybody any experience of ripping a os system out of a factory issue disk.

the documentation says that M$ are not supplying disks seperatly now.....

any advice appreciated as to what files would be required to make a pucka disk.

thanks

Edited August 8, 2005 by Railman5

[maxXPsoft]

Look's like an XP CD root to me

They must change a lot of files within. take a lot of work on your part

.

[Railman5]

So would it be difficult to do then?

[himwotisme]

So would it be difficult to do then?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

no, I did a Unattended CD from a recovery disc for my Rock Direct laptop. The i386 folder is fine, you will find however, that there is already a WINNT.SIF file, oeminfo.ini file, with further additions in the components and the $OEM$ folders. It should be a simple task if not easier, as you will only need to edit your laptop manufacturers unattended setup (which is probably only hidden screens) and then compile it.

[oioldman]

i'd agree with himwotisme, it shouldn't be to bad to do.

If you visit, http://unattended.msfn.org, read and follow you'll get the gist of what Elonex have done and then you can modify to make your own from this basis s most work has been done

[Railman5]

Thanks for all your help guys.

my heart droped when I found out Elonex said M$ had stopped shipping M$ disks of XP.

Well on to try the new stuff on XP then. Been running unattends with 2k up to now.

[maybeme]

A normal XP CD doesn't have the $OEM$ folders

grtz

Ow didn't read himwotisme's post right. sorry

Edited August 15, 2005 by maybeme