I recently got a dvd burner so i thought one of my first projects should be to make a Windows DVD. The DVD ended up being over 10 gigs but fitted on 1 dvd.

Here's what the dvd has:

win2k:
DDK
OPK
win2k pro sp4
win2k serv sp4
win2k adv serv sp4
sp4 seperate

xp:
DDK
OPK
Plus! XP
Plus! DME (no activation needed)
XP Home RTM
XP Pro RTM
XP Home SP1
XP Pro SP1
XP Tablet PC
XP Media center
SP1 seperate
XP Pro SP1 Custom install (unattended)

server 2003:
OPK
Custom Install (unattended)
Enterprise corp
Standard corp
Web corp

Office 2003 - all 5 cd's with serial inserted

Windows PE 1.1
ERD Commander 2003

272 Megs of software

Bootdisks:
win95
win98
winme

Memory testers:
microsoft
memtest86.com

Other:
1) Acronis Proof Eraser
2) Autoclave v0.3 Secure Eraser
3) Drive Image
4) Ghost 2003
5) Ghost 2004
6) Hard drive Wiper
7) NTFS DOS Pro
8) Partition Magic 7
9) Partition Magic 8
0) Password Changer

The 2 custom installs were fully unattended, and installed software and such. The win2k installs didn't need a serial.

Here's a screen shot:


edit: I forgot to mention it took 30 mins to make the cd image lol. And that's with the hard drive fully defragmented and no other apps running.

-gosh

****!!!
I want one!


|Drew|

Gosh, just curios about something I spotted - you list among the things on the DVD you have created Ghost 2003 and Ghost 2004. I didn't know that a Ghost 2004 even existed yet. Is this a Beta or is it actually Ghost 8 Corporate Edition?

Just curious because I've been keeping my eyes open to see if a Ghost 2004 was coming out soon.

Hannes

I used the ghost in norton 2004.

-gosh

wow... must have cost you a fortune to purchase each of those licenses...

Plus! MCE Edition (no activation), is there such a thing? or is someone using a crack?

Yes it exists, it installs fine with no activation at all I don't think it needs a serial either.

-gosh

never even heard of it.

i wonder where i can buy it

hi, gosh

i am just wondering what DVD burner do you use? how come it fit 10 GB on 1 CD. my burner is TDK 4X it support only 4.7 GB. If you have any info about your DVD burner could you please post it. thank you. oh one another thing could you post a guide of how to make a server with windows 2000 server, that will be helpful cause no one post it yet. keep on doing good works, smart guy.

Pao Boudtavong

edit: No need to use all that page space.

It isn't any different than an XP CD really.

he said he used cdimage


it creates dynamic links on the disks to file, so if four files are the same, then it only burns it once and links it to it.

True! True! Cd Image is truly a tool needed to make these kinds of dvds.

@Gosh.

Is the DVD you created bootable, im guessing it is, if so what tool did you use to create the boot files.

I just used cdimage.exe like any other ISO i've made. I burned using Nero6 (record > burn image). The process was no different than bootable cd's i've made in the past.

-gosh

but cdimage does'nt takes a folder larger than 4.3 gb pls can u help me out how did u do it. the compression process pls.

thanks in advance
jeet

ya it does. The 4 gig limit is a limitation of fat32, use NTFS.

This is the command i ran in a batch file. It put any errors into status.txt.

cdimage -lAllDVD -t12/05/2003,05:00:00 -h -m -o -bE:\CD\CDSH\loader.bin -j1 E:\CD E:\CD.ISO > status.txt


-gosh

why are u using
ghost 2003 & 2004
Partition Magic 7 & 8


jeet - ieet (what do both mean?)

When i burned the dvd i still had ~100 megs of room, so why not add both?

-gosh

Do you plan a guide for it?
Got flyakite dvd guide through but yours has more inside.

gosh did good

hey pls can anyone tell me how to add longhorn to multi boot dvd.

thanks
jeet

Hey Gosh!
Can you explain for me how you did make WindowsPE 1.1 (I've got 1.2) work for your dvd? Im trying since monday and didn't find a possibility to start pe WITH the installed programms (mainly the INF-files) in the "WinPE"-Dir in the disk-root.

please help me, thx ;D

CDIMAGE is what Gosh used to create the ISO for the DVD. This allows you to fit a lot more on a DVD than normal, because it cross links any files possible so it's not including duplicate files. My 9gb folder for my DVD files comes out to be a 4.1gb iso with CDIMAGE, so I could still fit a lot more stuff on there.

hey can anyone tell me how do we create a bootable image file using winimage.
I just want to know which file do we take in the boot sector propeties. which bin file is specified.

pls help me
thanks
jeet

bootimage.bin (of course it has some other names)
bart has a boot image extractor on his website(barts image xtractor).

hey xtrememac can u provide me site address for bart's image xtractor.

thanks
jeet

hmm no because I just tried it and its down for some reason
its normally www.nu2.nu
you can get the extractor from Greenmachine's XPCREATE
I gotta go search for greenmachine in members and go to his www.

hey xtrememac can u pls mail me bart's image xtractor
i would be really thankful to u.

kuljeetmathur@hotmail.com

its a very small app 21kb here it is

I am having problem in the unattended installation of windows xp pro. When i try to install it it gives me an error message "Setup cannot find a previous version of windows installed on your computer"

i have made according to the tutorial.

the directory structure is as follows:
ROOT\PRO2\winnt.sif
ROOT\SETUP\WINXPPRO\

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the winnt.sif file details are


[Data]
AutoPartition=0
MsDosInitiated="0"
UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[Unattended]
UnattendMode=FullUnattended
OemSkipEula=Yes
OemPreinstall=Yes
UattendSwitch="No"
Repartition=No
TargetPath=\WINDOWS
WaitForReboot="No"
DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
OemPnPDriversPath="\Drivers\Catalyst3_6\2KXP_INF;Drivers\Catalyst3_6\TV_Capture\WDM_XP"

[GuiUnattended]
AdminPassword=19232f607f11731aeb7e087d5f3aaf47af1cd11ead952143faca5c4abbb95a39
EncryptedAdminPassword=Yes
OEMSkipRegional=1
TimeZone=190
OemSkipWelcome=1

[UserData]
ProductID=CD Key Removed
FullName="RONAK"
OrgName="indiansofts"
ComputerName=INDIANSOFTS

[Display]
BitsPerPel=32
Xresolution=1024
YResolution=768
Vrefresh=85

[TapiLocation]
CountryCode=91
AreaCode=011

[Identification]
JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP

[Networking]
InstallDefaultComponents=Yes


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so pls kindly anyone help me.

thanks
jeet

i hav got a problem with my multi boot dvd. when the size of my folder is less then 4 gb everthing works fine. when i add something more to it and then i test any operating system, after loading the drivers i get a blue crash screen. ao if i again make the size of folder less than 4 gb then everthing works fine. pls can anyone tell for which reason is this thing hapenning. i am using cdimage command:

D:\cdimage.exe -lMultiBootDVD -t01/01/2004,04:00:00 -bD:\ROOT\CDSH\loader.bin -h -n -o -m D:\ROOT C:\MultiBootDVD.iso

pls help

thanks
jeet

@jeet
Hallo, I'm having the same problem too. When I try to install "XP PRO" regular, all it's fine,
and when I try to install unattend or OEM, having the message: "Setup cannot find a previous version of windows installed on your computer".
Could you clear up the problem?

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thanks for help
JoLock

JoLock

check for three things:

1 your root folder size
2 you have copied the winnt.sif file in the root\pro2\
3 that the version of windows xp is oem or retail.

check out these and then reply i till to solve ur problem

bye
jeet

@jeet

1. My root folder size : 5,58 GB (5.993.140.224 Bytes)
2. The "winnt.sif file" is in the root\pro2\
3. I dont know what kind of version: the install start perfect by pro1 without "oem"
and without "unattend".

bye

just try one thing firstly make the size of folder less then 4gb. remove some folders and then again make the iso and test it.

bye
jeet

Hi jeet, thanks for your help!

Okay my root folder size is now 3,44 GB (3.697.897.472 Bytes) and
the isofile is 1,87 GB (2.010.116.096 Bytes).
But the problem is still the same.
What can i do modify besides?

bye
JoLock

have u edited the txtsetup.inf and setupldr.bin too?

@jeet

Okay, txtsetup.si_ killed, sorry. I've had made so many changes at the last time, that I've looked over this mistake.
But why it run if the root folder size is less then 4GB? Otherwise it does'nt works!
Is this effect only by "Virtual PC"?
And work it perfect, by a DVD, then the size is over 4GB? I mean the rootfolder before cdimage made the iso, of course!
I hope you know what i will say!
sorry for my bad english

thanks & bye

JoLock

if you think its a problem with Virtual PC, you could use a program like Daemon Tools and Alcohol, and mount your iso, then have virtualPC use the emulated CDrom, instead of the ISO.

@jeet

Try this link!

BART'S BBIE

@Alanoll

This had clean up my problems with "virtual PC", no Blue Screen and no
error message by unattend-oem install "Setup cannot find a previous version of windows installed on your computer"!
Thank you very much for this great tip.



bye
and a merry christmas with a lot of presents

JoLock

I am getting a problem while installing any version of windows 2000. The error message is

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Windows 2000 Server Setup

The following value in the .SIF file used by setup is corrupted or missing:

Valoe 0 on the line in section [SourceDiskFiles] with key "sp4.cab"

Setup cannot continue
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

pls some one help me.

thanks
jeet

It appears "sp4.cab" is not on the cd. I think sp4.cab is the service pack, I'm not sure. Either add that file to the cd, or remove the line from the .sif file.

Nice one gosh