I also noticed for this following section:

7. edit TXTSETUP.SIF directly under [SourceDisksFiles] to include the following entries:
CODE
setupORG.exe = 1,,,,,,,2,0,0
presetup.cmd = 1,,,,,,,2,0,0

These two are absolutely neccessary, everything else can come from CD later on.

There are different sections with the SourceDisksFiles. Which one do I put those two above entries under? The first one?

@SBacklin:
1) Choose one file, it can be anything, the file acts as a "marker" only.
2) It's under the first [SourceDisksFiles] only.

Thanks for the reply. I ended up using the stuff from Driverpacks.net It worked just fine. My installation and login seemed a bit sluggish. I tried the doing the activation trick listed in the unattended setup guide but, I believe I made an error and that was the only issue. The drivers slipstreaming worked. I just got to work out a couple kinks.

i try this way.but not successful.i will try agian.

hi crazyboot and evilvoice have u guys find the solution yet. i am also having the same problem like u guys, some of my device drivers are not installing, only my 3com lan driver has succesfully insatlled.

is the setdevicepath is occuring the problems.

This post has been edited by shafaet: Apr 22 2007, 05:13 AM

Ok I know this is pretty close if not impossible with what can and can't run during presetup but I was wondering if anybody knew a way I could have WPI or a menu similar to WPI start up during presetup (any third party tools or anything that would make it work is not an issue) if anyone knows where I could start looking let me know.

So far I've been working with both AutoIt and WPI to try to get one of them to start using Dependency Walker to see what files are required for these programs to work but still no luck.

I want to use those tools to for my network installation of windows XP. However, when setup is copying over the files, I receive a message saying SetupORG.exe cannot be copied and Presetup.cmd cannot be copied. I am assuming an entry in the txtsetup.sif needs to be updated because it is from the network rather than the CD.

What else do I need to change in the Presetup.cmd to make this work

Thank you

Please note that there are other methods of doing this that are explained in other threads within this subforum. You may want to try those if this method doesn't work for you. Pyron hasn't posted here in a very long time so you may get better support from the other projects.

Thank you very much I will check them out

This method is working correctly, but I have a little problem with it:

I made on my DVD a directory named Drivers. It has many subdirs with extracted drivers of all driverpacks. it is about 1.4 GB. I know, but I have space on the DVD, why I have to extract file to my hard drive? Thats the problem. After presetup.cmd my system is frozen, the DVD drive is working-working, but nothing happens. Interesting: with virtualbox (wmvare like software, but free) it is OK.
One time I left my computer to work, after about 1 hour the setup continued and every hardware was recognised correctly.

Is it normal?

Other: I made a service DVD with BartPE. I made a little change in the PROGRAMS hive: I modified the DevicePath key to point on my DVD/Drivers subdir (and recursively ofc. It is about a 15000 byte long field...). Same as before: during recognising my HW, the system was hunged up, DVD was worked also. I ejected the DVD, but the system was too busy to continue, I think it tried to solve the path of my drivers. No error messages or something similar.

Can anyone help me?

(Sorry about my english... Maybe everybody understood me! )

Joc

Suppose I have a bunch of drivers with a setup file can I use this idea? John

Ever since XP SP2, i've used the method described in this thread but now i want to use it for SP3 but we need a new modified version of setup.exe (setup.ex_) ... does anyone know what is needed to do the mod? Or is there a version for SP3 available anywhere?

Cheers for any help.

So unfortunately this method cannot be used with SP3 slipstreamed installation sources as there is no modified exe available.
Too bad. What method is best for SP3 now?

I've found the solution ... if you use the DriverPacks Base to slipstream your drivers, one of the methods you can use creates a modded EXE.

I've uploaded one people can use as a replacement for this method here:

http://soporific.dsleague.com/files/SETUP.rar

but ideally, scrap this method and use the Driverpacks method in its entirety.

Hope this helps. Sop.

This is really a good job! I use this trick on every CD I make, for DriverPacks. By the way, I don't like the way driver letter is detected in presetup.cmd :


Indeed, if there's a Hard Disk with a WIN51 file at root, then identification is corrupted. One good thing should be that fake setup.exe passes drive letter as argument. This one can detect drive letter from which its launched, easily with windows API.

Does anybody have the source of fake setup.exe? I could mod it to suit my own needs.

Cheers,
Kal

I just extract the SETUP.EX_ from Windows XP SP2 to SETUPORG.EXE, which works flawless together with the modified SETUP.EX_ from this page.

double post

This post has been edited by booster: Aug 29 2008, 03:53 AM

Sorry, bad post. I solved meanwhile...

This post has been edited by Joc: Oct 26 2008, 11:27 AM

Ah thanks for the tip. I'll try it out...

Which method is?

And please reupload the file thx!