[DeadMeatGF]

I've gone through the thread, and read the FAQ, but please forgive me if I've missed the answer.

I got directed here after being dumped with a Tablet PC pre-installed with XP Pro (no pen/touch support, great huh?) and no Floppy/CD/DVD etc.
I downloaded the GUI, ran it to format the USB key and copy the XP Tablet files and plugged it into the Tablet ...
I can boot into USB fine, I can start Setup fine - but I get:

Q8: I got "Insert WinXP CD" Error, why?
A8: The correct value in WINNT.SIF is MsDosInitiated="1". This is done automatically by the script. You must have changed WINNT.SIF after prepared USB disk.

Well, I don't have a WINNT.SIF (apart from the Sample one) and I can't find a reference to MsDosInitiated in any of my files on the USB key.

I know I'm probably doing something fundamentally stupid ... but if anyone could tell me what it is, I'd be grateful!

[ilko_t]

Sorry about the delayed responses, I am still on holiday and have a little break from computers

edie209, on Aug 11 2008, 09:27 AM, said:

I have been playing around and I tried formating in NTFS the results are amazing I have gone from nearly 2 hours for the 1st section of the install to about 4 mins.

All is not well though on part3 of the install I get an error

Windows could not start because the following file was missing or currupt
<Windows Root>\system32\hal.dll
Please reinstall a copy of the above file

So I am going to try and find out why I get this message, but if anyone knows why please tell me

Good, NTFS really helps sometimes. For HAL.DLL error please check the FAQs.

sunray73, on Aug 13 2008, 11:21 AM, said:

So I was able to get BartPE to load up but as far as any of many linux dist.. nada... I get the following error. I'm running a 4GB formatted FAT32.


-----------------------------------------------------------------
Booting 'Start SysLinux bootsector from partition 0'

Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0cx

SYSLINUX 3.64 2008-04-10 EBIOS Copyright © 1994-2008 H. Peter Anvin
could not find kernal image: linux
boot:
------------------------------------------------------------------

Umm, you need you ammend your syslinux.cfg for the particular distro and check kernel parameters for USB boot. The program just adds syslinux bootsector, copy the contents to USB and loads syslinux, and from the message you have posted it seems that syslinux is loaded indeed.

DeadMeatGF, on Aug 15 2008, 02:39 AM, said:

I've gone through the thread, and read the FAQ, but please forgive me if I've missed the answer.

I got directed here after being dumped with a Tablet PC pre-installed with XP Pro (no pen/touch support, great huh?) and no Floppy/CD/DVD etc.
I downloaded the GUI, ran it to format the USB key and copy the XP Tablet files and plugged it into the Tablet ...
I can boot into USB fine, I can start Setup fine - but I get:

Q8: I got "Insert WinXP CD" Error, why?
A8: The correct value in WINNT.SIF is MsDosInitiated="1". This is done automatically by the script. You must have changed WINNT.SIF after prepared USB disk.

Well, I don't have a WINNT.SIF (apart from the Sample one) and I can't find a reference to MsDosInitiated in any of my files on the USB key.

I know I'm probably doing something fundamentally stupid ... but if anyone could tell me what it is, I'd be grateful!

It happens if your source is on CD, will be fixed very soon. Please use the file in post #36 it's fixed there, just extract it to WinSetupFromUSB folder and launch it instead of the other EXE.
When I get back from holiday will put all changes in new beta version.
Thanks for the feedbacks.

ilko

[ilko_t]

Program updated to 0.1 Beta, please refer to first post for list of changes and download links.

[tonich]

Me runes Win98, but me thinks this is a goood piece of software and deserves moar feedback.
Thanks to people, who put this together!
Greets!

[jonsa79]

 
Windows could not start because the following file was missing or currupt
<Windows Root>\system32\hal.dll
Please reinstall a copy of the above file 

I'm getting this error all the time.
I've read the FAQ's and can't seem to understand what I'm doing wrong?
I'm trying to install to a notebook that has no problem with formating and reading the first set of files,
but when the computer restarts it just gives the error above.
Now when I'm trying to install with another USB-stick with other settings it doesn't allow me to format anymore. It keeps giving me this hal.dll error.
What can be wrong?

Thx!

[ilko_t]

jonsa79- what partition are you installing windows to? First, second...?
What folder name you gave for Windows, is it the default Windows?
Doe the laptop have a hidden first partition?

Please post your BOOT.INI on the root of the USB stick too. There must be a mismatch between BOOT.INI parameters and the location you install Windows to.


tonich- thanks

[ykchanaed]

$OEM$
Presetup.cmd

Would you please add support to copy the $Docs and $Progs folders inside the $OEM$ folder in the Presetup.cmd

Thanks

[onepic]

@ilko_t

Nice work and pls. receive my congratulations for it !
I have test it today and it is working OK from a 2GB USB Stick (formated as NTFS) and installed from it a winxp sp3 profesional VLK on my notebook but there is "small problem". The setup it seems not ask to select your Name and Organization and also skip the selection for time zone . Can you fix that because not all of us are live in US . Thank you in advance !

This post has been edited by onepic: 17 September 2008 - 08:35 AM

[ilko_t]

ykchanaed, on Sep 17 2008, 02:41 AM, said:

$OEM$
Presetup.cmd

Would you please add support to copy the $Docs and $Progs folders inside the $OEM$ folder in the Presetup.cmd

Thanks

The next version will support everything as if installing from a CD. Hence no hacks or modifications will be needed to to accomplish such tasks.
Currently working on it, should be ready very shortly.

onepic, on Sep 17 2008, 07:34 AM, said:

@ilko_t

Nice work and pls. receive my congratulations for it !
I have test it today and it is working OK from a 2GB USB Stick (formated as NTFS) and installed from it a winxp sp3 profesional VLK on my notebook but there is "small problem". The setup it seems not ask to select your Name and Organization and also skip the selection for time zone . Can you fix that because not all of us are live in US . Thank you in advance !

The program is not messing with these settings. You most likely have a file unattended.txt in your source, which if found is copied and used as winnt.sif. This replicates what normal Setup would do.
If that's the case- have a look in \I386 in your Windows source and rename unattended.txt to anything else BEFORE you use the program if you don't want to use it.

Thanks for the feedbacks

This post has been edited by ilko_t: 17 September 2008 - 10:17 AM

[onepic]

I have renamed unattended.txt into unattended.tx_ and i have rebuild the setup and now all ok and it run like from original CD. Th'x for the tip !

btw... tested today on a 16GB usb stick and is working OK from there too.

[latteslave]

Great app and thanks! A couple of roadblocks for me:

At first I could not get the graphical install to go... Then I realized I had a 30MB partition stopping the whol thing.

Next issue - got the full install done, but could not boot without the USB key in the laptop. After reading the help, I realized that the binifix4.cmd file did not run (I even got an error telling me so during the first desktop launch.) I looked for the file but could not find it. Finally, I went back to the install of the WinSetupFromUSB and found the file in the install.

Is this the normal process? Did I do something wrong during the setup of the USB that caused the file not to be copied over?

Any help would be appreciated... I want to create a new USB - just in case, but want it to run the first time.

Thanks,

B

[ilko_t]

Was your XP source on a CD?
Can you copy it to a hard disk, use that as a source and report if that resolved the problem. I guess TXTSETUP.SIF editing fails when source is on a CD, because of the read-only attributes.

Thanks for the feedback.

edit: Couldn't understand this part, can you explain further?

Quote

At first I could not get the graphical install to go... Then I realized I had a 30MB partition stopping the whol thing.

This post has been edited by ilko_t: 29 September 2008 - 12:57 AM

[jkey]

Thanks for this wonderful tool!

[latteslave]

ilko_t, on Sep 28 2008, 11:56 PM, said:

Was your XP source on a CD?
Can you copy it to a hard disk, use that as a source and report if that resolved the problem. I guess TXTSETUP.SIF editing fails when source is on a CD, because of the read-only attributes.

Thanks for the feedback.

edit: Couldn't understand this part, can you explain further?

Quote

At first I could not get the graphical install to go... Then I realized I had a 30MB partition stopping the whol thing.

I should have been more clear. I got through the text setup the first time, but could not get the GUI to run on reboot. After several bad attempts, I actually paid attention when I got to the partitioning screen. Since I set up the USB for Disk 0 Parition 1, it was trying to boot from a little 30MB partition that was built into the MINI 9. I deleted that partition, reformatted and low and behold it booted the GUI no problem...

Thanks again!

[lieblingsbesuch]

When will 0.2 be released?

[ilko_t]

@lieblingsbesuch- Working on that, but real life also has it's own opinion how time should be distributed, actively negotiating with it

@latteslave- does that mean you succeeded when source was used from a HD?

[loopux]

Gparted is not working well for me...it loads ..take a lot of time...lot of verbose comments..then ask for my keyboards..ask for my language and then finally finish into a terminal type shell...i thought gparted had a graphic GUI (well i am sure it has one because i have it on ubuntu)..i tried all the various options (load in mem, safe etc)
why so? any ideas? it is probably possible to use it like this too but too complicate for me...

only thing i myabe should add i also have ubuntu live in the same partition (and bartpe, and winxp install), but in a different folder off course (casper)

matteo

[ilko_t]

loopux, on Oct 2 2008, 10:32 AM, said:

Gparted is not working well for me...it loads ..take a lot of time...lot of verbose comments..then ask for my keyboards..ask for my language and then finally finish into a terminal type shell...i thought gparted had a graphic GUI (well i am sure it has one because i have it on ubuntu)..i tried all the various options (load in mem, safe etc)
why so? any ideas? it is probably possible to use it like this too but too complicate for me...

only thing i myabe should add i also have ubuntu live in the same partition (and bartpe, and winxp install), but in a different folder off course (casper)

matteo

What version of GParted you tried? Both 0.3.6-7 and 0.3.4-8 worked right away in my tests on 3 different computers.
For 0.3.6-7 if it doesn't start GUI try waiting a few seconds, it should auto start depending on the options you choose, [0] beginner etc.
Try "sudo startx" too.
Ubuntu most likely will be included in the next version, matter of a few weeks.

[loopux]

i tried with the latest available version 0.3.9.4
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...ckage_id=271779

i will maybe try wi8th the older versions you suggest and let you know...

thanks for quick answer...
matteo

i did add ubuntu but it was not easy...(see my post)

[loopux]

yes i tried with gparted 0.3.6-7 and its working...strange because it wasnt with the newer version...

matteo