cdshell 2gig limit

#1 agpmaster

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Posted 17 February 2004 - 01:59 PM

Is there a work around or fix for cdshell 2 gig limit? I seem to have problems when my image over 2 gig. Or am I missing something?

#2 Purity

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Posted 17 February 2004 - 02:22 PM

hm ... i'm using cdshell and my image is > 4gb
so cdshell shouldn't be the problem ... which
error message do you get?

#3 Sunil

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Posted 17 February 2004 - 02:31 PM

I have images that are 5 gigs+ and cdimage works wonderfully

#4 X-Ecutioner

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Posted 17 February 2004 - 02:55 PM

U runnin NTFS or Fat32?

#5 LiquidSage

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Posted 17 February 2004 - 04:54 PM

did you modify your image with something like winiso or ultraiso? does it pass cdshell and boot into a windows 2k/2k3 or xp setup? Have you extracted your bootfile and see where it points? is your cdshell folder 'boot' or cdsh'?

#6 adamsmith

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Posted 19 February 2004 - 12:02 AM

If you are using VMWare or Virtual PC (one of them - I'm not sure which) has a problem using the iso file over 2GB.

If this is the case mount it in something like Virtual DEAMON and mount it that way.

Adam

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Posted 19 February 2004 - 12:20 AM

#8 pachelbeljoe

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Posted 19 February 2004 - 03:14 AM

adamsmith, on Feb 19 2004, 12:20 AM, said:

Virtual PC is not working correctly with Images that are greater than 2GB. But as said above you can solve this by using the daemon tools.
I think it´s always better to mount the image and use it like a DVD-Drive. Solves many problems.
And don´t use WinISO or UltraISO to create or modify your Images. It works for CD-Images up to 700MB but won´t work for DVD-Images. You´l get many crazy errors. So don´t do that. Use cdimage forn this site to make your ISO.

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Posted 19 February 2004 - 04:41 AM

Thanks to all for the info. I misread the thing about the 2 gig limit. I thought it was for cdimage. I also did convert my fat32 to ntfs. Things seem ok now.

#10 agpmaster

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Posted 19 February 2004 - 05:42 AM

I've got one more question. My $OEM$ folder doesn't copy to the harddrive. It's located
at "C:\ROOT\SETUP\WINXPPRO\$OEM$". I have set Oempreinstall=1. Installation works fine but $OEM$ folder is not copied to harddrive. Here's part of my winnt.sif file:

[Data]
AutoPartition=1
MsDosInitiated="0"
UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[Unattended]
UnattendMode=FullUnattended
OemPreinstall=Yes
OemSkipEula=Yes
DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
FileSystem=ConvertNTFS
Repartition=Yes
UnattendSwitch="yes"
WaitForReboot="No"
AutoActivate = No
ProgramFilesDir="C:\My Program Files"
CommonProgramFilesDir="C:\My Program Files\My Common Files"
KeyboardLayout="US"

[GuiUnattended]
AdminPassword=*
EncryptedAdminPassword=NO
OEMSkipRegional=1
TimeZone=35
OemSkipWelcome=1
ProfilesDir="C:\Documents and Settings\"

This works fine for my XP unattended install. Ant ideas?

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