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Unattended Secret: Reducing Size Of Source


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I don't do pdf's, but im gonna write some guides tomorrow.

Gosh, could u add some comment in the first post to this thread _OR_ start a new thread and get it locked or something, when u get aroud to this.

I find your knowledge and help with all Unattended things most greatful and rewarding. Thank you kindly for your time Gosh, to helping the community. *bows low*

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Gosh, your first post works like a charm...

in fact, it's so **** good, i think i just figured out to get a CD INSTALL to load my Sata/Raid HD Drivers, __without___ having to hack any files (eg. txtsetup.sif, etc).

more info in a new post when i've completed my testing about CD INSTALL + Raid Drivers :)

thanks gosh.

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I have made a cd with the options as Gosh stated in the second post where you choose between an unattended setup and a regular install. It works great on the unattended install but the attended install with no winnt.sif is still grabbing the cmdlines.txt from the $oem$ folder.

Has anyone tried doing this with this method. Everything is working fine other than the attended setup is grabbing the cmdlines.txt at the 10 minute mark and erroring out because the $oem$ is not copied to the hard drive.

In short I don't wish to have the cmdlines.txt file run at all.

My cd structure is here.

Folder listing of C:\INSTALL\

$OEM$\      11/10/2003 9:59:37 PM 359,171 kb
I386\        11/10/2003 9:58:01 PM 340,716 kb
VOL1\        11/13/2003 8:09:48 AM 7,081 kb
VOL2\        11/13/2003 8:09:48 AM 7,079 kb
DELOAD.BIN  5/8/2001 12:35:34 PM 1 kb
DISKEM1X.BIN 7/11/2001 3:59:44 PM 12 kb
DISKEMU.CMD  11/13/2003 8:10:44 AM 2 kb
GHOST.IMA    11/11/2003 9:22:52 AM 1,440 kb
GHOSTL.IMA  11/12/2003 2:31:09 PM 1,440 kb
LOADER.BIN  7/9/2001 9:13:18 AM 2 kb
README.TXT  11/12/2003 4:03:25 PM 3 kb
SPNOTES.HTM  8/23/2001 10:00:00 AM 11 kb
VOL1.DAT    11/11/2003 2:07:00 PM 2 kb
VOL2.DAT    11/11/2003 2:19:42 PM 2 kb
WIN51        8/23/2001 10:00:00 AM 1 kb
WIN51IP      8/23/2001 10:00:00 AM 1 kb
WIN51IP.SP1  8/23/2001 10:00:00 AM 1 kb

If anyone know how I can get around this issue please let me know.

Thanks

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Thanks for the quick reply Gosh.

By the way a big thanks to Gosh for posting this thread in the first place. It has helped me do some things I didn't think was possible because of size constraints doing it the "Microsoft" way.

-Rahbas

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My method just avoid the first file copy phase, NOTHING is installed yet.  Nothing such as the HAL is determined.  It's exactly the same if you booted from cd and did a clean install.

I've tried your method. I 've read the whole thread and there is stiill first copy phase when I'm tring to do a clean install. What's wrong? Maybe I should create partitions with PQMagic before running install or what should I do?

So "the first phase should be or not" that is the question.

Thanks.

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