Invalid Character in Setup

[towerofpower256]

Howdy all.

This is my first attempt at making my own windows installation so it's no surprise that I've hit a hurdle but this is really ticking me off. After all the setup files have been copied and Setup kicks in, it immediatly comes up with a message saying:

'SXS.DLL: Syntax error in manifest or policy file "D:\I386\ASMS\10100\MSFT\WINDOWS\GDIPLUS\GDIPLUS.CA_" on line 0.

Installation Failed: D:\I386\asms. Error Message: Manifest Parse Error: An invalid character was found in the text content.'

After a bit of experementing I found out that it only happens when I integrate SP2 into the CD. I followed the Unntended Guide on MSFN and I used the nLite method AND the manual method. Also, I used CDIMAGE to make the ISO because the nLite ISOs never seemed to work. Any ideas?

[RyanVM]

Make sure that gidplus.man in that folder isn't compressed (doesn't end in .ma_)

Now why that's happening, I don't know.

[towerofpower256]

Never Mind...

Turns out that everything works if you chuck out all of the duplicate files.

Thanks anyhoo RyanVM

Edit: Nope, I was wrong. Now it's not working at all and I have no idea why. It's strange because I had it working before and now I can't figure out how I did it. Any ideas?

Edited October 4, 2006 by towerofpower256