Thanks all for this

[utw-Mephisto]

For almost two weeks now I am checking out this forums to create my very own Multi DVD.

I am working in a huge university in IT and one of my objectives was to clean up the chaos in our operation system boxes.

We are using actually all Microsoft operationsystem here, starting with old Windows, like 2-3 up to Datacenter.

Why Windows 2, 3 etc. ? They have some electron microscopes and the interface cards are quite expensive and old. Upgrading would could almost 100.000 Euro .. So it is cheaper to keep all the old rubbish ...

Anyway, since we have so many operation systems, it was impossible to think about using CDs or even single layer DVDs so I made up my mind in using Dual Layer DVDs, so now it did not really matter how many as every one SHOULD fit on that DL DVD .. And guess what : Without applications, like Office etc, I reached a total size of

8.57 GB (9,204,146,176 bytes)

With a LOT of folders :

I know which files I have to remove to get it below 8.5 GB anyway.

Since I am quite proud of the result, I got to bother you with screenshots

I used the MSFN Guide which helped me a lot although there are some mistaked / missing parts, but the search (here in the forums or google) helps in every case.

Since I am a creative n00b, I simply used the Windows XP Bliss background as startup picture for the CD Shell.

Of course you can decide wether you want to boot from DVD or not

I tried to keep the boot menu as simple as possible since there are really quite a lot of OS' on there :

All those menus have subemenus where you have then the choice of eg. Windows 2000 Pro/Server/Adv.Server/Datacenter etc.

The only thing missing so far is an autostart menu but with all those solution found here, I am either too stupid to create one or it is way too complicated to do it just like that ...

Anyway, thanks again for all the help, and before people start again accusing me (like in another thread) of using warez to get all those OS' : NO, I am NOT using warez, the university has all required licenses and I hold a Universal MSDN license for years now !!!!!

Edited March 29, 2006 by utw-Mephisto