XtremeMaC Posted November 1, 2003 Share Posted November 1, 2003 I'm just wondering why all of the guys that are writing batch's include the creation of winnt.sif in there?what's the point???I know your's skip to other sections if winnt.sif is found but stillWHY? you could just have a winnt.sif readily made and you could just say copy winnt.sif \cdroot or something.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord voldmort Posted November 1, 2003 Share Posted November 1, 2003 Dose this method removes device dirvers(that have not been installed) from my new xp CD ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kryxan Posted November 5, 2003 Share Posted November 5, 2003 gosh, I love these tutorials! I followed each one carefully and it worked out great! Now I have a CD with:Windows XP Professional SP1aWindows XP Preinstallation Environment (made with PE-Builder)Windows 98 Boot DiskOffline NT Password and Registry EditorRight now, my CD is 493 MB with all of this stuff...I'll see what else fits! after seeing this post i went out and got PE-Builder, and I think its awsome. however i am having trouble getting it to fit on my CD. my cd isnt full yet, however i will be adding win2000 (if i can fit it). the problem with PE is that cdimage.exe isnt able to save any space from winPE's folders. to make sure everything fits should/can i unpack winxp's driver.cab so cdimage sees the identical driver files? are there any other options available for space reduction with PE from PE-Builder?also gosh, i dont see any speed improvement, but the space improvment without removing anything from XP is great. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gosh Posted November 5, 2003 Author Share Posted November 5, 2003 Thanks. When i said my method has a speed improvement, i got the idea when i built a pc. I had 2 identical computers side, with exactly same hardware. One computer used my cd, the othr computer used a retail xp cd. Both computers started the install at the same time. By the time text mode was done on the retail computer, the other pc using my cd was already done installing. It could be that computer was built wrong, i don't know.-gosh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonicX Posted November 6, 2003 Share Posted November 6, 2003 This is the first time looking at this, very interesting Gosh, but stupid me still have some questions.1. winnt32.exe /noreboot <--- not working, it opened My Document folder.2. doing a clean install (not upgrade).After setup finishes closes will this effect my system? or do I cancel the setup at some point during the setup?any help would be great thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gosh Posted November 6, 2003 Author Share Posted November 6, 2003 /noreboot tells setup to close when it's done, and not to reboot the pc. I've never heard of the /noreboot command to open the my documents folder. You can skip the /noreboot command if you want, just make sure you don't let setup restart the pc.-gosh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdgordon Posted November 6, 2003 Share Posted November 6, 2003 also when u do this it will edit your boot.ini to load the setup after 3 sec next time u boot so make sure you put it vback to normal before rebooting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darth Posted November 6, 2003 Share Posted November 6, 2003 ARGH, I built my cd by gosh´s second method, I tested cd with virtualpc, it worked fine, but on my system after I press Enter to boot from CD, it says Label "BOOT" not found and goes to command prompt.edit: after few restarts it started to work, probably hardware vs diskemu issues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonicX Posted November 6, 2003 Share Posted November 6, 2003 which folder should I choose, since i dont wanna mess around with my old system files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonicX Posted November 6, 2003 Share Posted November 6, 2003 i'm very sorry, never mind my last post, it didnt do anything to my system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted November 7, 2003 Share Posted November 7, 2003 gosh, any possibility of you putting any of your guides in a giant PDF file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gosh Posted November 7, 2003 Author Share Posted November 7, 2003 I don't do pdf's, but im gonna write some guides tomorrow.-gosh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlamDunk Posted November 7, 2003 Share Posted November 7, 2003 GOSH is it possible to follow your steps until.........C:/Install/Boot.....Then drop The WIN51,WIN51IP,WIN51IP.SP1,SPNOTES.HTML,XPBOOT.bak, and the i386 folder with $OEM$ from the Unattended CD into the Install folder. Extract the boot image and burn..........SlamDunk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gosh Posted November 7, 2003 Author Share Posted November 7, 2003 If you're asking if you can transplant the reduced i386 folder with another i386 folder, then yes you can.-gosh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlamDunk Posted November 7, 2003 Share Posted November 7, 2003 What I'm trying to do is skip the ISO step and burn the files directly to a cd that boots......SlamDunk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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