Run batch file before xp install

[andym9999]

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.

[glent]

whats is you need the batch to do?

[andym9999]

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.

[Br4tt3]

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!

[andym9999]

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

Thanks.

[Br4tt3]

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