Hmmm...seems you forgot something in creating those beta hotfix lists. The CSS file is not loaded (in the winup dir, not the winup/beta dir) .

Edit: Oh, wait, that's not it. But something is not right.

No... every necessary file is there...

Just edited my post. That's not what's wrong, but there is some problem. Your regular list loads perfectly.

There was a problem with IE. Check again

Perfect. Thanks!

It has restarted.
I haven't updated my HFs.


I'm using "hfslip-1.0b-61010b.cmd".
It is possible I made an error though (I'm a bit in a hurry right now)

hi Oleg! it's nice to see a pioneer back! there have been some changes since you've been gone & a lot of new faces too ... like me! your contribution to HFSLIP would certainly be appreciated ... TC/TP, my apologies ... still don't have my PC up ... seems that i need a new 1 ... i REALLY miss running the tests & posting results ... oh btw, which additional .msis are supported now? i remember there were quite a few ...

@Camarade

Did you read the changelog?
I have simplified it a little just now.

@Tomcat76
I changed the instructions to integrating drivers so you can get rid of HFDRV folder related code in HFSLIP.

The only thing I'd like to ask you is to take from this code the part when all INF files in DRIVERSCAB folder is cabbed, placed into i386 folder and referenced in TXTSETUP.SIF and DOSNET.INF as "*.INF=1,,,,,,,20,0,0".

Current instructions include work around without this code but if you can do it the steps would be even easier for a user.

Done

Not really.
I just took a look at it but I don't really understand what has changed in my case.

QUESTION:
Regarding the latest changelog, UsrExcHF1 is only for hotfixes that are "not recommended" in the sense that it's not in Tomcat's and the_guy's lists? because everything that's in those list are all correctly handled by HFSLIP?

See my signature for an XPSP1 list intended for the current test release. If everything appears to be correct, can you please compress your HFSLIP.LOG and TXTSETUP.SIF files and post it here? I'm completely in the dark as everything's fine here with XPSP1.

Yes. This feature is for hotfixes and/or updates that aren't on our lists.

@glentium, yes.

@Tomcat, I seem to be having a problem with HFANSWER.INI. Unless I'm doing something wrong, the DRIVERCOMP option I select is not recognized properly. I used to use option A, but I recently changed it to D. When I run HFSLIP, it still uses option A.

But I think I know why! Because I set the %RELEASE% variable to AUTORUN, it doesn't call the section that sets %MULTICAB% to ON.

POST DELETED:
so as not to confused new users on an unsupported feature.

@Super Magician...

In "autorun" mode you need to specify MULTICAB=ON additionally. And don't forget to specify AHTEST too.

But let's not discuss this too much because it's an unsupported feature. If people use this and something goes wrong, we can't have a clear picture of the situation to diagnose it properly.

@Tomcat and @glentium, thanks .

@Tomcat again: I do not believe AHTEST needs to be set in AUTORUN mode because that section is bypassed. And, yes, I understand why you don't want to discuss this too much.

Hi, I think I've found a problem with hfslip-1.0b-61013a.

I use w2k SP4 german.
During setup there appears a screen "KB917008 Setup ... Options ... " and an OK button on the bottom.
I've put KB917008 in the HF dir, is that correct? I've read that this update is not slipstreamed, does it have to go in another folder?

After setup was finished I did a quick run of MSBSA 2.0 and it tells me KB917008 and KB923191 are missing.
KB923191 is definitely in my HF dir...

BB

Tomcat76
I've just had a look into HFSLIP HFSTOR section. Here is my suggestions:

1. I think it's better to place STORAGE.INI in HFTOOLS and run :HFSTOR section if only *.SYS file in STORAGE folder. Because this way a user may place this INI is in HFTOOLS just for future use and doesn't use any SATA/RAID drivers at the moment.

2. Sorry I'm not too much in the coding but I see only three sections are adding to TXTSETUP.SIF - SCSILOAD, SourceDisksFiles and HardwareIdsDatabase. Shouldn't be one more - SCSI.Load?

Example:

The difficulty here is that first part iastor should be the name of SYS file iastor.sys without this SYS.

Or do you think that it's better to include SCSI.Load part in STORAGE.INI too?

Here's a little commandline that may help to strip off the dot extension and put into Oleg2's suggested format.

FOR /F "DELIMS=." %%I IN ('DIR HFEXPERT\STORAGE /B') DO ECHO %%I=%%I.SYS,4

Don't know what you guys are talking about. The [SCSI.Load] code has been in there since the beginning...

ECHO>>WORK\SCSILOAD.TXT %%~nI = %%I,4

This is then copied into TXTSETUP.SIF.

@Oleg II: I don't think it's necessary to have STORAGE.INI in HFTOOLS. I'll just have HFSLIP check for *.SYS files.

Tomcat76
Don't be angy with me As I said I'm illiterate in coding

Just want to be sure that all four parts are in their places in order it works:

1. SourceDisksFiles - only SYS files from STORAGE folder should be mentioned if I'm not mistaken.

2. HardwareIdsDatabase - taken from STORAGE.INI

3. SCSI.load - first part of a *.SYS file = *.SYS file,4

4. SCSI - taken from STORAGE.INI too.

If it is possible please add the possibility to add information from different STORAGE*.INI - it could be easier to support separate files for different manufactorers.

And there is probably some garbage that are not needed to be compressed and placed in i386 too like TXTSETUP.OEM and maybe some other files. We can find it out only in the process of testing


PS I've just thought I can create STORAGE folder with STORAGE.INI and any files, run HFSLIP and see the result

Does it have to be in that order? It's going to be difficult to split STORAGE.INI. HFSLIP currently outputs in this order: 1-3-2-4.

I'll see what I can do with support for multiple *.ini files.

As far as "garbage" is concerned... Are only .sys files required? If so, I can hard code that into HFSLIP.

No the order of sections is not important. It's fine now.

I'm not sure about SYS files only. I think only SYS are refferenced in section SCSI.load of TXTSETUP.SIF.
And I see some other files in packages: DLL, EXE, CPL, TAG, VXD and PDB.
CAT and INF files are not refferenced in scankurban's version.
I think it's not important right now.

Problem again.
Gonna try a fresh source (that one has just been patched with SP1 and I think an error may have occured).

Btw, SP slipstreaming left a svcpack.log file in hfslip's folder. Could it be deleted ?
Also, KB833989 (m$ VGX) says something like "try /? for correct use... blablabla".

hi! finally i was able to run some tests on ver 61012a over the weekend (although a bit late as there is now a newer ver 61014c ) (& not my pc yet as i need to purchase new cpu & mobo ) ... attached are the usual files for review ... attached too are some screenshots ... thanks!

about 923191 pic, after clicking OK, the following lines show:
WindowsXP-KB923191-x86-ENU.exe
Access is denied.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
0 File(s) copied

i'm redownloading the file to see if perhaps my file is corrupted ...
taking it out of HF directory does not show the error ...

GEE! IT IS GREAT TO FINALLY BE ABLE TO RUN SOME HFSLIP TESTS ... AFTER A LONG WHILE! I MISSED THIS!

Kiki...

Where do these files come from?

cstupd1394sidspeed.dll
fsdkreboot.exe
srilanka06.dll

cstupd1394sidspeed.dll-KB885222
fsdkreboot.exe-Windows Media Connect 2.0
srilanka06.dll-KB918093

the_guy

And there's a problem with CopySendAddons_1.1.7z. Where can I find it?

@the_guy
HFSLIP doesn't extract WMC 2.0 so it must be something else.

hi TC! i think srilanka06.dll has something to do about the time zone change ... i'm not sure though (WindowsXP-KB918093-x86-ENU.exe) ... for cstupd1394sidspeed.dll, it's from Update for Windows XP (KB885222)... as for fsdkreboot.exe, i'll try to verify ... thanks

ha! ha! you guys are so fast ... i was just finishing up on my reply & when i submitted it there were already posts ... thanks!
i'll just take out media connect ... not necessary for me anyway ...
as for CopySendAddons_1.1.7z, i got it from RyanVM's site but i couldn't find it ... i figured i had to take it out anyway ... just didn't have to time to in the 2nd run ... don't trouble yourselves with the last 2 sirs ... it's fine ...

btw, the line errors in txtsetup.sif changes ...
also, i don't understand why my ntfs.sys becomes corrupted

hi TC/TP! i know i already asked this before but could there be a way for us to see an entire log of what transpired from the start to the end of running the cmd? this would truly be helpful ... thanks much!

and since i am requesting, might as well request once more if a timer (start & end time) could be reflected (i know the entire run time is already reflected)? over-indulgence ... he! he!

thanks!

The next version will delete cstupd1394sidspeed.dll.

The Sri Lanka time zone update is a strange hotfix. The installation INF does not contain information as to where the srilanka06.dll file should go and if anything else should be done with it. I'll have to test this in a VM.

There's nothing wrong with WMC 2.0. HFSLIP doesn't extract it so the fsdkreboot.exe file does not come from that application. It must be another Windows media update that isn't on our lists. Maybe I'll just delete the file since we aren't doing anything with it anyway.

Using 61015a, fsdkreboot.exe and cstupd*.dll are deleted and srilanka06.dll is temporarily renamed to slanka06.dll (given back original name during textmode copy of Windows setup). Will check later if this is enough for srilanka06.dll.

Using hfslip-1.0b-61014b there seems to be a problem slipstreaming DX9 (german w2k SP4).
Trying to run dxdiag results in a hang of dxdiag when running DirectShow tests.
On the next run of dxdiag there appears a dialog asking if directshow tests should be skipped because in the last run these tests crashed.

Anyway, after installing directx_oct2006_redist the problem goes away.

BB

Concerning the Sri Lanka update... Just copying the binary doesn't do it. It's actually nothing more than a "helper file".

Kiki (or anyone else)... Do you know if the time zone change from 6:00 to 5:30 is temporary or permanent? If it's permanent, I'll just hard code the two necessary registry changes for everyone and you can ditch the update.

@Bugs Bunny... I didn't run into that problem but I'll check it again.

@Bugs Bunny:

I can confirm this. Are you sure it doesn't happen with the latest stable release?

I saw a problem with DX9 slipstreaming which only affects Windows 2000. I fixed it up and will now check in a VM if it solves the dxdiag problem...

BBIAB...

I´m able to report a successfull final installation with w2ksp4 german, ie6sp1, dx 9 oct06 without xinput and xact files, all fixes and files from tomcats list and some goodies in hfexpert.
Installation without problems. WU shows only unneeded stuff. CD build with Hfslip 61014c.
Good work, guys. THX

@wela

Hmmm...weird. Tomcat and others just reported errors with DX9 slipstreaming on 2K, but you are using 61014c and report no problems.

yeah..reading the other posts...really mysterious.

@Wela: run dxdiag.exe from the Run box and wait till the blue boxes go away.

@Kiki & Bugs Bunny: your problems should be fixed with 61015b

@TC
Done. All Boxes away. Successfully run all DirectDraw-, direct3D-, directsound- and directmusic-tests. No problems.

HFSLIP message for KB898461 processing is no longer scary..

hi TC! thanks for this ... strange though, this HF about Sri Lanka has been there in my HF directory all along ... but i believe this time shift would be permanent ... got it from here: http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?...608&sid=SAS ... as for NTFS prob i believe it was due to my cabbed ntoskrnl (to change the boot screen) ... though there is still another possible culprit as i only did 2 major changes in my last build (1) removed ntoskrnl from FIX & (2) changed source from XP Gold to XP SP1 ...

as for the error in KB923191, redownloading the file resolved the issue ...
thanks again!

Yeah, I've read some articles on the time zone change too. It's been like that for a few months already.

BTW... "T-13" is not exactly right. The change is implemented when SYSOC.INF gets processed; I think that's T-19 but I'm not sure.

HFSLIP 61012a is partially broken!

KB917008 failed to install.
The KB917008 installer is complaning about an invalid switch, in other words, an invalid parameter.
I get a pop-up with the command line options when at "Registering Components".

This problem didn't occur with previous versions of HFSLIP.

This is with Windows 2000 Pro SP4 and the FDV fileset.

Update:

I'm not alone on this one, at least a couple reported having the KB917008 installer returning an invalid parameter error.

Sorry my English…

In W2K Italian all test releases, and also hfslip-1.0b-61015, displays an error of bad switch with SCRIPTIT.EXE and KB833989 (yes... it's not critical, but...).

Ciao!

Not all test releases

Those updates are obsolete. Please use IE6.0sp1-KB925486-Windows2000-x86-ITA.exe and WindowsXP-Windows2000-Script56-KB917344-x86-ita.exe.

@retalv

OK... Test version 61017a is treating these obsolete updates as Type 2 hotfixes. Should fix your problem.

Hi
Theres a problem with current experimental release and XPSP2 and W2kSP4 german. Trying to make a new and updated CD with XPSP2 failed. Sometimes hfslip isn´t able to process Hotfixes (Messages like "temp folder is not empty. The specified file could not accessed" or " file not found"). Finished sourcess burned on CD brake during copymode with "file not found or could not copied. Setup failed". Trying W2ksp4 shows the same problems. Strange thing. the former Releases worked better.
Redownloaded all Hotfixes and files, copied new source, nothing helped.

I think its the better way to build first a stable Version of hfslip for the MS-Stuff including the new one and the thirdparty stuff is a parallel development.