[nerdex]

dead0, on 11 August 2010 - 12:05 PM, said:

hey all, i've been offline for a while trying to sort out some unfinished business but im hoping in the next week or so to upload a new and final guide before SP1 is released. there won't be any further updates til then. i have found another way to clean most of the winsxs folder without breaking instead of using aviv00's method which i will also post, so updates should install fine and no need to do another run of KB947821 after install.

Great dead, this very cool your work!
A new guide including cleaning the winsxs is perfect!

[Fr33m4n]

I need to install windows on a small SSD which means that I need to do some kind of slimming down. That's why I decided to follow this guide. I don't however have Windows Ultimate, but I decided to try anyway.

I have now followed the guide down to the last letter. I was unable to find the MS update that relates to nod32 but it didn't seem important? vLite gave me a few errors at the end of it's run, but it had something to do with temp folders on the local machine so I figured it was unimportant.

Anyway, I'm just about to test install it but I thought I should mention this interesting thing first. This process has not slimmed down my iso at all. In fact, the new iso after all the removing is actually 40mb larger than the original iso I started with. I'll let you know how it goes.

[Fr33m4n]

Nope. Install didn't work. Setup complained about a missing CD/DVD driver. Funny, because I was installing from a USB stick.

So where did I go wrong?

[Junior2613]

@Fr33m4n: There is something way more wrong with your iso than that. You need to start again and delete the lines from 'addx64.bat' that correspond to the two unnecessary updates.

[alvinkhorfire]

dead0, on 11 August 2010 - 12:05 PM, said:

hey all, i've been offline for a while trying to sort out some unfinished business but im hoping in the next week or so to upload a new and final guide before SP1 is released. there won't be any further updates til then.

dead0

Thank you very much for your guide. According to your existing guide.pdf, can I integrate all the Windows hotfixes released since RTM in Step 9, not just the ones mentioned in the prerequisite section?

Besides that, I hope that your future guide includes steps to integrate drivers. Previously when I vlited Windows Vista, I used DriverMax to backup the installed drivers before integrating it to Windows image via vLite. Hopefully, your future guide will enable us to remove the default drivers contained in Windows 7 and integrate the ones created by DriverMax for example. Very much looking forward to it.

This post has been edited by alvinkhorfire: 18 August 2010 - 03:55 AM

[dead0]

a refresh of the guide is up. see 1st post for more details & link.

[dead0]

alvinkhorfire, on 18 August 2010 - 03:50 AM, said:

dead0, on 11 August 2010 - 12:05 PM, said:

hey all, i've been offline for a while trying to sort out some unfinished business but im hoping in the next week or so to upload a new and final guide before SP1 is released. there won't be any further updates til then.

dead0

Thank you very much for your guide. According to your existing guide.pdf, can I integrate all the Windows hotfixes released since RTM in Step 9, not just the ones mentioned in the prerequisite section?

Besides that, I hope that your future guide includes steps to integrate drivers. Previously when I vlited Windows Vista, I used DriverMax to backup the installed drivers before integrating it to Windows image via vLite. Hopefully, your future guide will enable us to remove the default drivers contained in Windows 7 and integrate the ones created by DriverMax for example. Very much looking forward to it.

see 1st post for the updated guide which includes all updates since rtm, not the actual files tho as you will have to download them from ms driver integration is possible using dism but not sure how. i would recommend to create a new folder with your drivers & save it into the install.wim, it would be much easier?

[alvinkhorfire]

dead0, on 18 August 2010 - 05:04 AM, said:

driver integration is possible using dism but not sure how. i would recommend to create a new folder with your drivers & save it into the install.wim, it would be much easier?

dead0

Thank you for your prompt reply and your freshly uploaded guide! Well done!
I accept your suggestion. Could you show me how to create a new folder for driver integration? Presumably, it should be done during Step 16, before making the ISO, right?

[dead0]

alvinkhorfire, on 18 August 2010 - 06:29 AM, said:

dead0, on 18 August 2010 - 05:04 AM, said:

driver integration is possible using dism but not sure how. i would recommend to create a new folder with your drivers & save it into the install.wim, it would be much easier?

dead0

Thank you for your prompt reply and your freshly uploaded guide! Well done!
I accept your suggestion. Could you show me how to create a new folder for driver integration? Presumably, it should be done during Step 16, before making the ISO, right?

it wont be driver integration as such but when you have the image mounted, create a new folder in the image (eg in the root) and insert the drivers into it. then after installation, use the new folder for driver selection.

[Junior2613]

@dead0: Thanks for the new guide. I'm having trouble finding all the updates though, is there much difference in this guide's update requirements and the previous one? If so is there anyway you could upload the new updates that weren't needed for the previous guide?

[dead0]

Junior2613, on 22 August 2010 - 09:59 AM, said:

@dead0: Thanks for the new guide. I'm having trouble finding all the updates though, is there much difference in this guide's update requirements and the previous one? If so is there anyway you could upload the new updates that weren't needed for the previous guide?

let me know which updates you're missing and i'll upload them

[Junior2613]

KB976422.msu
KB958488-v6001.msu
KB978886.msu
KB979482.msu
KB979900.msu
KB979916.msu
KB980195.msu
KB980218.msu
KB980232.msu
KB980408.msu
KB980436.msu
KB980846.msu
KB981078.msu
KB981332.msu
KB981793.msu
KB981852.msu
KB982214.msu
KB982519.msu
KB982664.msu
KB982665.msu
KB982799.msu
KB983590.msu
KB2032276.msu
KB2079403.msu
KB2160329.msu
KB2183461.msu
KB2286198.msu
KB947821-v5.msu

These are the ones I'm missing, I found some of them but they seemed to corrupt as I downloaded even when I tried again which is strange IDM never craps up like this.

[dead0]

Junior2613, on 22 August 2010 - 07:28 PM, said:

KB976422.msu
KB958488-v6001.msu
KB978886.msu
KB979482.msu
KB979900.msu
KB979916.msu
KB980195.msu
KB980218.msu
KB980232.msu
KB980408.msu
KB980436.msu
KB980846.msu
KB981078.msu
KB981332.msu
KB981793.msu
KB981852.msu
KB982214.msu
KB982519.msu
KB982664.msu
KB982665.msu
KB982799.msu
KB983590.msu
KB2032276.msu
KB2079403.msu
KB2160329.msu
KB2183461.msu
KB2286198.msu
KB947821-v5.msu

These are the ones I'm missing, I found some of them but they seemed to corrupt as I downloaded even when I tried again which is strange IDM never craps up like this.

are these x86 or x64? did you also try downloading them from microsoft? i usually search the kbxxxxxx on google then download from ms

[dead0]

x64 http://www.4shared.c...x64updates.html

x86 http://www.4shared.c...x86updates.html

KB947821-v5.msu x86/x64 http://support.micro...om/?kbid=947821

these are all the updates that are needed

This post has been edited by dead0: 24 August 2010 - 04:58 AM

[Junior2613]

Wow! man you really are awesome Thanks for that.

[dead0]

i may do a refresh of the batch files before sp1...target install size is now 1.5gb for x86 & 2.5gb for x64 (all without pagefile/hiberfile) ive decided not to go extreme on the next set and keep as much funtionality as possible

ps x64 will have netfx 3.5, printer and wifi support. server r2 will probably remain the same as is without netfx3, printer & wifi support

This post has been edited by dead0: 24 August 2010 - 12:57 PM

[shutfu]

dead0, on 24 August 2010 - 12:42 PM, said:

i may do a refresh of the batch files before sp1...target install size is now 1.5gb for x86 & 2.5gb for x64 (all without pagefile/hiberfile) ive decided not to go extreme on the next set and keep as much funtionality as possible

ps x64 will have netfx 3.5, printer and wifi support. server r2 will probably remain the same as is without netfx3, printer & wifi support

please do! and sooooooooon =)

[alvinkhorfire]

Is it allowable that I make some minor changes to vLite preset file? I mean, if supposedly I want to remove other components, and keep some components which should be removed in original preset, do I have to modify the dism7x.bat and rem7x.bat accordingly as well? Yes, I know that sticking to the original preset will have the highest chance of having functional vlited Windows image, but making some minor changes to the preset will not hurt, right?

This post has been edited by alvinkhorfire: 30 August 2010 - 02:02 AM

[jayank2000]

error

This post has been edited by jayank2000: 30 August 2010 - 09:07 PM

[tacneplong]

I can't install Office 2010 with this Windows7 version. How to fix it?Thanks