IcemanTw Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 Hey all, long time reader, first time poster.. I've used nLite for some time now to mainly add drivers, service packs and create ISO's. Using the latest version of nlite, I tried to add Promise 378 RAID drivers to Media Centre 2005 SP2 CD1. Every time I did this it failed (I believe) due to TXTSETUP.SIF missing critical entries for MCE specific things.Attempt one: select nothing other than integrate driver and create ISO. = Creates a disk that recognises the mass storage device, installs but does not ask for CD2 (broken MCE)Attempt two: same again, only selected 'remove components', ticked everything for compatability and removed none. Created iso (broken MCE). The second left me with a better looking TXTSETUP.SIF but it was still not enough for MCE not to be broken.I ended up using bashrats mass storage driver pack. His utility slipstreamed the drivers into the install with no issues. However, I would have prefered to use nlite. Can you please tell me what has gone wrong here?Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bledd Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 you are using a real mce key yes? there is no corporate version of mce, so you have to activate using a genuine keywhat i did was copy cd1 and cd2 to c:\xpcd and point nlite at that, then remove the usual crap (keep mce compatability, and don't remove .net files) and mine makeiso, then install, it won't ask for 2nd disc but it will install everything it needs and MCE will work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanTw Posted July 20, 2006 Author Share Posted July 20, 2006 Yes, legitimate OEM media and Key which installed and activated using bashrats driver pack.I'd rather not copy the discs to a single disc or have to remove anything as I'm installing a machine for someone else. All I want to do is integrate drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bledd Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 removing manualinstall + upgrade, and the 3 extra folders would do it easy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanTw Posted July 21, 2006 Author Share Posted July 21, 2006 Sorry, I have no idea what you just said? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bledd Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 load the source into nlite, and tick "remove components"remove these..Network OptionsMSN Explorer (its crap and is 19mb)Operating System OptionsManual install and upgrade (its pointless as you can just boot from cd to install - 44mb)Directoriesremove all (useless and 20mb)should be enough space to put both on one disc then and have full functionality, if you need more space, then remove some languages too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanTw Posted July 23, 2006 Author Share Posted July 23, 2006 Ok you misunderstand me. I know you can hack the install up further and put it into a single disc but I don't want to do that because it's a) for someone who's needs I can't anticipate in the future and B) if I haven't fixed the first problem then I don't really have any trust that the system has been installed 100% correctly.I wonder if I could have an answer from nuhi?Please tell me why nlite rewrites txtsetup.sif so dramatically just for a driver addtion when it's not necessary? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 Post your txtsetup.sif, please.I have an OEM-Version of MCE which came on a DVD, so I can check, what went wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanTw Posted July 24, 2006 Author Share Posted July 24, 2006 Ok, I've attached a txtsetup from one of my failed builds. I believe this is the one where I went to 'remove components' and ticked all the compatability options and didn't actually remove anything. I also attempted to integrate the drivers.TXTSETUP.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bledd Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 Ok you misunderstand me. I know you can hack the install up further and put it into a single disc but I don't want to do that because it's a) for someone who's needs I can't anticipate in the future and B) if I haven't fixed the first problem then I don't really have any trust that the system has been installed 100% correctly.I wonder if I could have an answer from nuhi?Please tell me why nlite rewrites txtsetup.sif so dramatically just for a driver addtion when it's not necessary?removing what i suggested will not be noticable, and will solve your problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuhi Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 txtsetup is not changed, it's just sorted, blank spaces removed.This does not affect anything that may concern you and it's more readable and faster.And I don't see MCE on the nLite supported OS list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanTw Posted July 25, 2006 Author Share Posted July 25, 2006 txtsetup is not changed, it's just sorted, blank spaces removed.This does not affect anything that may concern you and it's more readable and faster.And I don't see MCE on the nLite supported OS list.If it's not changed then why does it no longer call for the second disc? I ran a comparison over the two files (not the one I provided exactly, one of simply adding the driver) and it found lines missing. So based on those two things, I would have to disagree.No, MCE is not on the supported list, but as MCE is simply XP with a bundled application, I didn't think it was too far a stretch.The community has some interest in MCE compatibility; it's mainly been achieved in workarounds. I solved my problem before I posted. I made this thread simply to provide some information to the next person who has this problem. If as a developer you are not interested in fixing an incompatibility in the software, then, I will thank you for your efforts and suggest you need give this thread no more attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuhi Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 Well when you put it like that I must say thank you and I know what the issue is but I will need to get MCE to be able to fix it and I don't have it.Can you compress and attach failed or at least original txtsetup.sif from that cd? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 can you told me a a tool to compare two files and highlight the difference? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 @IcemanTwis your problem solved?I compared the txtsetup.sif of my DVD with your one and I don't find any differences which will couse this failure.Can you post your original txtsetup.sif, too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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