[mawi]

Resolved, see this post. (last in topic, below)
RE: WinSetupFromUSB (0.1.1, latest at the time of writing)

* Trying to install Win XP sp 3, nlited install with drivers for drive, options but no addons.

* First part goes fine; I reboot

* Windows starts and I anticipate second part of installation. "Windows loading screen" (don't know actual name) is shown, then the familiar windows blue desktop color appears...

but then, before anything else is shown, a command/terminal window and a dialogue on it appears.

* The dialogue displays an error:

Title:
16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem

Text:
setup -newsetup
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG.NT. The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.

Buttons:
CLOSE/IGNORE

 WinSetupFromUSB_prob.jpg (24.01K)
Number of downloads: 12

The commandline title is "setup -newsetup"


* I have looked for a logfile to submit, but I have not found any.

* I have tried different windows xp images, removed all addons to have a clean, trying to see if the problem might be somewhere else. No luck so far.

* Other have experienced this problem, see here:

German, Matt:
http://myeee.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/wins...k/#comment-1256




Any clues as to what may be causing this problem?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!


/mawi

This post has been edited by mawi: 21 March 2009 - 04:05 AM

[ilko_t]

Please post ~LS\I386\presetup.cmd and compare file sizes of extracted setup.ex_ and setuporg.exe, do they match?
Please attach WinSetupFromUSB.log found in program's directory, along with the old archived logs, found in \backups\date-time-log.cab.

edit: have you removed by any chance 16-bit support by using nLite? Maybe the fake setup.exe needs some components in order work properly and execute the real setup.exe (setupORG.exe) after had launched presetup.cmd.

This post has been edited by ilko_t: 18 March 2009 - 12:31 PM

[mawi]

Hello,

thankyou for your reply!

ilko_t, on Mar 18 2009, 07:29 PM, said:

Please post ~LS\I386\presetup.cmd and compare file sizes of extracted setup.ex_ and setuporg.exe, do they match?

I tried another way with the usb drive and so I dont have it left.

ilko_t, on Mar 18 2009, 07:29 PM, said:

Please attach WinSetupFromUSB.log found in program's directory, along with the old archived logs, found in \backups\date-time-log.cab.

OK; I have attached a zip with some logs.  WinSetupFromUSB_Logs.zip (139.33K)
Number of downloads: 3

ilko_t, on Mar 18 2009, 07:29 PM, said:

edit: have you removed by any chance 16-bit support by using nLite? Maybe the fake setup.exe needs some components in order work properly and execute the real setup.exe (setupORG.exe) after had launched presetup.cmd.

I tried to keep the edits to a minimum, just settings and driver for the disk, so I don't think so. I will try again with a vanilla setup to be sure.

Best regards! /mawi

This post has been edited by mawi: 18 March 2009 - 03:28 PM

[ilko_t]

Nothing interesting in the log files.
Without presetup.cmd and setup.exe comparison I cannot help any further.

[mawi]

Hello!

OK! I retried the whole procedure (this time with just one partition on the harddrive). Sadly, I got the same results, same error message as above.

ilko_t, on Mar 18 2009, 07:29 PM, said:

Please post ~LS\I386\presetup.cmd and compare file sizes of extracted setup.ex_ and setuporg.exe, do they match?

I am not quite sure what files to compare:

- I tried finding any of the three files you mention on the harddrive (I assumed that is where they would be extracted) yet I found none of them.
- On the USB, in the -LS\i386 dir, I found them, of course. Here they are (names are prefixed to indicate where they came from):

 usb_presetupAndSetup.zip (12.94K)
Number of downloads: 6


Please tell me where to look for the files I need to compare with. Thanks for your help and time!

Best regards,

/mawi


PS

ilko_t, on Mar 18 2009, 07:29 PM, said:

Please post ~LS\I386\presetup.cmd and compare file sizes of extracted setup.ex_ and setuporg.exe, do they match?
Please attach WinSetupFromUSB.log found in program's directory, along with the old archived logs, found in \backups\date-time-log.cab.

edit: have you removed by any chance 16-bit support by using nLite? Maybe the fake setup.exe needs some components in order work properly and execute the real setup.exe (setupORG.exe) after had launched presetup.cmd.

By the way, I did double check that 16 bit subsystem was not disabled in nlite, and it was not. It sounded very plausible... :-)

This post has been edited by mawi: 20 March 2009 - 03:29 PM

[ilko_t]

usb-SETUP.EX_ is filled with zeroes as is setup.exe if you extract it using

expand setup.ex_ setup.exe

You can open it up with the free TinyHexer for example.

If that's indeed setup.ex_ found in ~LS\I386 folder then copy manually setup.ex_ from \WinSetupFromUSB\files\winsetup\ to ~LS\I386 on the USB disk overwriting the existing corrupted file. This should get you going.
You may want to check in TinyHexer \WinSetupFromUSB\files\winsetup\setup.ex_ first. If you see again all is zeroes then please let me know.

As for why the file is corrupted I can only guess, maybe antivirus scanner interfering

[mawi]

Hello again,

ilko_t, on Mar 20 2009, 11:27 PM, said:

usb-SETUP.EX_ is filled with zeroes as is setup.exe

If that's indeed setup.ex_ found in ~LS\I386 folder then copy manually setup.ex_ from \WinSetupFromUSB\files\winsetup\ to ~LS\I386 on the USB disk overwriting the existing corrupted file. This should get you going.

good catch this!

ilko_t, on Mar 20 2009, 11:27 PM, said:

You may want to check in TinyHexer \WinSetupFromUSB\files\winsetup\setup.ex_ first. If you see again all is zeroes then please let me know.

Yes, I checked the original setup.ex_ (in the installation dir), and it was the same! Besides viewing in my favorite editor, I also ran a comparison to be sure, all zeroes as you said.

So I reinstalled WinSetupFromUSB, and then the file was different.

I am now running WinSetupFromUSB again, creating a new install to the USB.

Holding my thumbs!

/mawi

[mawi]

Progress!

I am now looking at a Windows XP Setup dialogue, and it seems the install is progressing as expected after the reboot, contrary to before.



This time, as WinSetupFromUSB was running, I got a sysinternals eula agreement dialogue. Not that it bothers me much, but I did not see this before. I apparently do not use their sync myself.

Question: Is this as it should be? I am paranoid, I guess...

 SISyncFromWinSetupFromUSB.jpg (38.01K)
Number of downloads: 7

/mawi

[mawi]

SOLVED

1. Problem: Faulty installation of WinSetupFromUSB, caused bad versions of setup files to be put into installation folder on USB.

Consequently GUI phase of windows install failed.

(Note: My install was not in default folder, but \Program Files\WinSetupFromUSB.)

2. Cause: Unknown right now.

3. Resolution: Reinstalled WinSetupFromUSB. Recreated installation on USB. Install worked fine.


Big thanks to ilko_t for finding the problem!!



/mawi

[ilko_t]

mawi, on Mar 21 2009, 01:36 AM, said:

This time, as WinSetupFromUSB was running, I got a sysinternals eula agreement dialogue. Not that it bothers me much, but I did not see this before. I apparently do not use their sync myself.

Question: Is this as it should be? I am paranoid, I guess...

SISyncFr...pFromUSB.jpg

/mawi

That's perfectly normal, nothing to worry about. Sync is used to flush data to the USB disk.

mawi, on Mar 21 2009, 02:02 AM, said:

SOLVED

As for the corrupted file- maybe bad download (did you get it from MSFN link to datafilehost.com? ), AV scanner or something interfering with installation

Anyway, glad you got it sorted.