Hopefully this is a silly and easy question to answer. I have built and tested my unattended xp install and am creating the iso using nLite. This all works fine. What i want to do is run a very simple batch file before the xp installation starts. Is there an easy way to do this?

Many thanks in advance.

whats is you need the batch to do?

All the batch does is echo a few lines to the user and then calls 'pause' to wait for a key to be pressed before starting the installation.

All the batch does is echo a few lines to the user and then calls 'pause' to wait for a key to be pressed before starting the installation.

Sure, this can be done. However, u gonna need a runtime to perform that. Either DOS or WinPE would ez do that for u, can burn a bootable CD/DVD with DOS as the boot media and so on.. of course WinPE is alot nicer. If u dont have access to MS PE, try out BartPE which also solve this issue.

best regards from tha sausage eater!

Yes i do have WinPe, forgive my ignorance, could you give me a rough run down of the way to do it?

Thanks.

Yes i do have WinPe, forgive my ignorance, could you give me a rough run down of the way to do it?

Thanks.

U build WinPE from scratch using scripts delivered from MS, add the optional components u want to have included,

WSH / ADO / WMI / HTA. Once u have that done, when u boot WinPE, u will end up with a cmd console (startnet.cmd)

where u can launch, .vbs or bacth scripts from (like u wanna) to customize the drives / msg and so on. Everything

can be wrppaed in a cute hta and so on..

for more info, check out the WInPE forum subsection within MSFN..

Best of luck to u