[MindTooth]

Really nice SVVPACK.INF. The problem is as you stated, the size. It seams that groups like ETH0 compress the hotfixes, to .ca_.

Example:
 sshot_44.png (92.53K)
Number of downloads: 58

How can this be achived. It also seems that ETH0 only use SVCPACK.INF method. So this list of your is really nice.. Will test it for norwegian...

[radix]

Nordoelum, on Feb 16 2008, 11:46 PM, said:

compress the hotfixes, to .ca_.

That kind of compression is made by nlite using some kind of cabtool.

This post has been edited by radix: 16 February 2008 - 05:19 PM

[DribbelZ]

Thank You GreenMachine. Great Post :-)

I'm bussy making the svcpack.inf for a dutch xp installation and i'm almost done.

It only seems that installing wmp11 dutch with the syntax you provide kills the windowsxp installation. After installing windows xp and booting for the first time the server service and workstation service are not started (among others). Where did you find the syntax information for installing wmp11? What is the meaning of all those parameters?

Furthermore Dotnet 1.1, Dotnet 2.0, Dotnet 3.0 and Dotnnet 3.5 are all installed only it can't get the proper syntax for the languagepack for net11 and net20. Any ideas? Also the Webclient Service seems to be broken ;-(

Last but not least it can't find the wga hotfix WindowsXP-KB892130-NLD-X86.exe. Did you compress/make it yourself from the local SoftwareDistribution Source?

Edit:
Found the correct syntax for the DoOtNet languagepacks

"langpack11.exe /Q /C:""inst /q"""
"langpack20.exe /Q /C:""install /q"""

Thanx Again GreenMachine

This post has been edited by DribbelZ: 14 March 2008 - 07:46 AM

[GreenMachine]

First post updated for April 2008 patches.

[giarc]

Hullo

First off, great work on figuring all this out.

I knew there had to be a way to install all HFs/Updates without nLite etc. So thanks

Couple of questions though.

Can this be used on a normal installation, ie. not unattended?

Secondly, when I tried this on a VMWare last night I got a prompt to set the location to extract some temp installer files, my guess it was for one of the later updates in the list, any ideas how to get rid of this? Apologies I cannot be more specific as to which HF it was.

Also, could this be used in conjuction with a manual integration of HFs that can be integrated without 3rd party apps? As I assume that would drop the size of the resulting ISO if you manually integrate as much as possible.

Ok so that was more than a couple of questions

Thanks,
Craig

[giarc]

radix, on Feb 17 2008, 12:04 AM, said:

Nordoelum, on Feb 16 2008, 11:46 PM, said:

compress the hotfixes, to .ca_.

That kind of compression is made by nlite using some kind of cabtool.

Could you not just use makecab *.* on your svcpack folder to achieve this?

[GreenMachine]

@giarc:

Yes, this works on an attended install, as well as an unattended.

You have the wrong switches, or the wrong update file for the hotfix that is prompting you for an extraction path. You could try a quiet installation, as opposed to an unattended installation, and then you should have more luck finding the culprit. To do so, change all the /Q /U /O /N /Z to /U /O /N /Z, and the /Q:A /R:N to /Q:U /R:N.

Integration using the /integrate switch will result in a larger installation source, as the updates are still run as shown above, but unpacked files will then replace packed files in the i386 directory of the installation source.

The hotfixes are already compressed as distributed. Using makecab will not result in significant savings, just as compressing an .mp3 file does not reduce the files size very much.

This post has been edited by GreenMachine: 16 April 2008 - 10:02 AM

[Bitfrotter]

Hi Greenmachine,

Is it possible to get the latest xpcreate version. I posted severall times in the xpcreate section but no reaction. I also sent you a PM but never received a response.

I am using the previous one with a lot of success. Thanks in advance,

Bitfrotter

[giarc]

Regarding the folder I was asked to extract some data to - it was C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv does that help identify which update it is?

Here is my svcpack.inf file...

"dotNET11.EXE /Q:A /C:""INSTALL /Q"""
"dotNET11_KB928366.exe /QN"
"REG DELETE HKLM\Software\Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting\DW /F"
"REG ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\Setup /V SystemSetupInProgress /T REG_DWORD /D 0 /F "
"dotNET20.EXE /Q:A /C:""INSTALL /Q"""
"dotNET20_SP1.EXE /Q /NORESTART"
"MSXML6_KB933579.EXE /Q"
"WMP11.EXE /Q:A /R:N /c:""SETUP_WM.EXE /Q /R:N /NoPID /DisallowSystemRestore /P:#e"""
"WMP11_KB929399v2_SDK.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z /ER"
"WMP11_KB936782.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z /ER"
"WMP11_KB939683.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z /ER"
"WMP11_KB941569.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z /ER"
"KB933729.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z /ER /B:SP2QFE"
"dotNET30.EXE /Q /NORESTART"
"dotNET30_KB932471.EXE /Q /NORESTART"
"dotNET30_SP1.EXE /Q /NORESTART"
"dotNET35.EXE /Q /NORESTART"
"QChain.EXE"

Thanks in advance.
Craig

[giarc]

I discovered it to be IE7 that is causing the problem.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[giarc]

Attatched is an image of my VMWare displaying the issue, and below that my svcpack.inf file.

BTW, this is an SP3 slipstreamed copy of XP - however, I was seeing the same issue with SP2!

Attached File(s)

•  untitled.JPG (87.88K)
  Number of downloads: 30

[giarc]

hmm looks like it is qchain causing the problem, commented it out of svcpack.inf and IE7 installed fine. perhaps you don't need qchain with SP3?

[giarc]

ah, was being a dunse, I do apologise.

discoverd I was using an unextracted direct download of qchain, sorted now

[GreenMachine]

Bitfrotter, on Apr 24 2008, 10:48 AM, said:

Hi Greenmachine,

Is it possible to get the latest xpcreate version. I posted severall times in the xpcreate section but no reaction. I also sent you a PM but never received a response.

I am using the previous one with a lot of success. Thanks in advance,

Bitfrotter

@Bitfrotter: Correct me if I am wrong, but your posts have led me to believe you are using XPCREATE in a commercial environment. Is that correct?

I will not be updating this SVCPACK.INF any longer, as I have moved on to SP3.

[Bitfrotter]

@Greenmachine,

My apologies but that is not the case. I have tried to use your tool in a job I previously did with a large company in Eindhoven, the Netherlands but this company unfortunatly decided to do it in another way. Since januari of this year I have moved to another job and I am no longer working on the client side. I am now working at the server side and in an Exchange 2003/2007 environment.

However for my own private purpose I use xpcreate to have a unattended installation of XP that I can use to install within vmware/virtual server/hyper-v when I am studying for new microsoft certification. Once you have an unattended installation you want to keep it that way every month when there are new updates.

So i am sorry to put you in the wrond direction. Maybe I should have told earlier what my intensions where. If it is possible I still would like to use your xpcreate tool. If you want more information send me a pm and I will answer your questions.

With kind regards,

Hans Broeders
The Bitfrotter