[tomasz86]

I'll try to upload the test builds as soon as possible.

By the way, I've tried Qemu and, while it's very easy to run and make everything automatic with just one click, the problem is that it's very slow compared to VirtualBox. I wonder if it's a problem related to the particular version or is is a general problem of Qemu under Windows? Could anyone more knowledgeable about it clarify? Is there any specific version of Qemu you would recommend?

This post has been edited by tomasz86: 22 June 2012 - 10:12 AM

[tomasz86]

I'm also thinking about remaking all .NET Framework addons to integrate them directly into the USP. I find these CAB addons quite problematic and have got too little control of them in the current state. It's not an easy task, especially in case of .NET 3.0 and 4.0 as they are pretty massive but I think I'll give it a try. At the moment .NET Framework CABs are used in the test versions but I'll remove them in the future ones.

Edit: I've just managed to remake the .NET 1.0 installer. Frankly speaking, it was a piece of cake. Preparing .NET 1.1 should be similarly easy. On the other hand, hell starts from .NET 2.0 and 4.0 seems be the worst one. The INF file itself is over 2 MB.

This post has been edited by tomasz86: 22 June 2012 - 05:12 PM

[tomasz86]

I have added a link to the first post where you can find test versions.

At the moment there is available only the .NET Framework 1.0 installer I talked about above.

This is the testing procedure:

1. Download and unpack the .7z package.
2. Install using update\update.exe.
3. Uninstall.
4. Reinstall
5. Uninstall.
6. Send / upload the two files from your %systemroot% (usually C:\WINNT) directory: NETFX10.log & NETFX10Uninst.log.
7. Report any errors (you can do it in this topic or send me a PM).

.NET Framework 1.0 requires only SP4 to be present. I'll be very thankful for testing it because if everything is OK then I can use the same method for other Frameworks

This post has been edited by tomasz86: 23 June 2012 - 07:25 AM

[Hackeronte]

Hi tomasz86,

Me too i,m a Windows 2000 Addict, so i'd like to know and ask if there will be any global version of this astonishing project

as, for example, the Windows2000-UURollup-v3a-x86-Global.exe.

By the way and out of context i,ve installed your Unofficial Updates Rollup and it's working perfectly and smoothly: GREAT WORK!

So, if I can be of help in some way for the italian part of the global version let me know

thanks and regards

hackeronte

[acus]

Hi Tomasz,

log files for you

http://ge.tt/7MOJRYJ/v/0?c

[tomasz86]

@acus
Thanks a lot of testing. I've prepared a combined version of .NET 1.0+1.1 installer. It's available in the repository (see #1).

The filename of the .NET 1.0+1.1 installer is NETFX1011_20120625.004123.7z.

This is a combined .NET Framework 1.0 and 1.1 installer so it will install both of them at the same time, and both of them will be removed too if you decide to uninstall the package. They are based on the true addons created by OnePiece and of course they are fully updated.

What's interesting is that you can see that this repacked installer doesn't even require a reboot to finish all tasks. Now, I'm very sorry to say this but the official M$ installers for .NET Framework are a piece of junk They are slow and you always have to reboot. Compared to them the repacked version is super fast. A big advantage of merging .NET Frameworks is that there are some overlapping files between different versions of it and by using a merged installer it's possible to have only one copy of each of them.

One problem I had to solve was that many (most) of the files have exactly same names even though they come from different versions of .NET Framework, ex. a file "mscorie.dll" is present in .NET 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0. I decided to use a simple way. I renamed all files to MD5(first 8 digits).net like this:

0189c803.net
01a9326d.net
02ec75da.net
04600ba4.net
048297b5.net

You may have already seen them if you downloaded the .NET 1.0 installer. Thanks to this method all exactly same files are merged and only one of them is left, and also different files but with same name can be included in the package. Of course these files are renamed during the installation, so "0189c803.net" becomes "System.ServiceProcess.Resources.dll", etc. The method has another HUGE advantage - all of them have the 8.3 name format which means that they can be used when Windows setup is launched from DOS. This is critical because I plan to add them to the USP.

Anyway, could anyone test the new .NET 1.0+1.1 installer? The testing procedure is described above (#43), only the logfile is now called "NETFX1011.log". Keep in mind that if you uninstall it your existing .NET 1.0/1.1 installations may be broken so please always test in a VM. I've also fixed one issue present in the previous .NET 1.0 package. By the way, I won't delete any previous packages from the server (SkyDrive) so all of them will be accessible from there unless I run out of disk space.


@Hackeronte
Thanks for your support

Yes, there are actually many things you could help. Everything depends on what you are interested in. Do you want to focus only on the Global version, i.e. a version that can be installed in ALL language versions of Win2k, or maybe you want to prepare an Spanish version of UURollup?

1. In case you want to improve the Global version of UURollup then what you can do is to:
- check and compare files from UURollup-v10 (ENU) and UURollup-v3a (Global) and see if there are any newer files in the ENU version which could be added to the Global one
- check files included in the ENU version and see if there are any multilanguage / language neutral files
- add the compatible files to UURollup (Global)

2. In case you want to create an Spanish version of UURollup then you could:
- analyse files present in UURollup (ENU) and check which of them are multilanguage / language neutral and which are English only
- translate the English only files into Spanish
- compile UURollup (ESP)

As you see the two approaches are very different. Both of them require TIME but the first one is still much simpler. On the other hand, by choosing the latter you are able to create a full version of UURollup (ESP) which means that all files with new / extended APIs (mainly kernel related files) will be also there. In case of a Global version it's not possible to include kernel files in it because kernel files are very different according to the system language, especially very different in case of East Asian languages (CHT/CHS/JPN/KOR) and European languages.

First of all, please specify which way you prefer and then I can provide you with some scripts and tools that will help you check and compare all the files

Edit: I'm sorry, I messed up the languages. I meant a Spanish version, not Italian

This post has been edited by tomasz86: 24 June 2012 - 10:16 AM

[acus]

http://ge.tt/3y3dqZJ/v/0?c

Hi Tomasz,

log files for you...

[tomasz86]

Thanks Actually, this time not everything is OK...

Could you try to install the package again and then run from commandline (a CMD file) this:

C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.0.3705\Copy2Gac.exe /i /f:C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.0.3705\assemblylist.txt /p:C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.0.3705\ /ri:"Microsoft.NET v1.0.3705" /rd:"Microsoft.NET Framework assembly" /q
PAUSE

Is there any error on the screen?

Edit: I'm guessing you'll see an error related to "msvcr71.dll" but I need to be sure before making any changes.

This post has been edited by tomasz86: 24 June 2012 - 11:25 AM

[acus]

Hi Tomasz,

in Virtualbox, only SP4, no other Rollup.
I reinstalled Net1011.
After running cmd file, I had one error
http://ge.tt/4FhP3aJ/v/0

Then copied (and registered) msvcr71.dll.
Rerun cmd file, no error this time
http://ge.tt/4FhP3aJ/v/1

Regards

[tomasz86]

I've uploaded two new builds of the .NET 1.0-1.1 installer (you should be interested only in the newest one). MSVCR71.DLL is now copied to the .NET 1.0 directory so everything should work properly.

I initially thought about taking more aggressive approach and merge all registry entries of .NET 1.0 and 1.1 as well (at the moment they are treated separately in the INF file) but after thinking about it I decided not to do it. I'll opt for a safe route and leave them separated (even though most of .NET 1.0 registry stuff is also present in .NET 1.1) as you never know what will be needed in the future.

Now I'm going to focus on .NET 2.0. As I said before, it's hell There are about 7000 lines added to the registry through the INF file.

Edit: I have uploaded one more build of the .NET 1.0-1.1 installer. There was one typo in the previous one's update.inf file.

This post has been edited by tomasz86: 25 June 2012 - 04:07 AM

[Hackeronte]

Hi Tomasz,
Don't worry about the languages i think that the whole wide world is pretty messed up with languages & sub-languages !

I'm actually using spanish language but my genuine copy of w2k is italian lang. (ITA).

About my choice, i'd prefer to use my spare time in the effort to create a full version of UURollup (ITA)

Although i'd like to give my little contribute to the GLOBAL version, unfortunately my spare time isn't as much as a serious project deserve !

So let me try with whtat seems to be the more intriguing choice (2)
Now, talking about instructions:

- analyse files present in UURollup (ENU) and check which of them are multilanguage / language neutral and which are English only


Which method is faster and practical ? Do you have some special trick or tool to suggest ?

- translate the English only files into ITALIAN


Which method is faster and practical ? Do you have some special trick or tool to suggest ?

Thanks and regards

Hackeronte

[acus]

Hi Tomasz,

log files for NETFX1011_20120625.190602.7z

http://ge.tt/4yv1ocJ/v/0?c

[tomasz86]

@acus
Thanks again for testing I've just uploaded a new version of .NET 1.0 installer (netfx10) and an experimental version of .NET 2.0 Installer (netfx20). Frankly speaking, the more I test these packages, the more I'm amazed how fast they are compared to the official MSI based installers... This is how M$ should have prepared them from the beginning. They actually did it for .NET 1.0 and 1.1. The former is included in WinXP Tablet Edition and installed from an INF file. The latter is included in Win2003 Server and also installed by default from an INF file. OnePiece used them for his addons (and my instalers are based on OnePiece's addons). On the other hand, I don't think M$ has ever prepared INF based installers for .NET 2.0 and newer.

@Hackeronte
I'm sorry for a late reply but until tomorrow I'll try to provide you with some info and tips about how to easily compare and translate those files.

This post has been edited by tomasz86: 26 June 2012 - 02:24 PM

[Hackeronte]

Hi Tomasz,

No problem...Thanks

Regards

hackeronte

[acus]

http://ge.tt/4mKHXiJ/v/0?c

Hi Tomasz,

log files for netfx10_20120627.131756 & netfx20_20120627.050621

I installed first NEt10, uninstalled, reinstalled and uninstalled again.
After I do the same for NET20 (in same Virtual machine) but no files were copied!?

[tomasz86]

@Hackeronte

I'm sorry for replying late once again.

I think you can easily check language version of the files using the following script. You will need filever.exe 5.0.2134.1. Download and copy it to your %systemroot%\system32 folder. After that unpack UURollup-v10 and run this script inside it:

FOR /F %%I IN ('DIR/A-D/B/S *.*') DO (
	IF EXIST %systemroot%\system32\%%~nI%%~xI (
		FOR /F "tokens=4" %%J IN ('filever.exe "%%I"') DO (
			FOR /F "tokens=4" %%K IN ('filever.exe "%systemroot%\system32\%%~nI%%~xI"') DO (
				IF "%%J"=="%%K" ECHO>>files.txt %%~nI%%~xI %%J
			)
		)
	)
)

It will list all files from %systemroot%\system32 in your system which have got the same language version as the ones included in UURollup. By doing so we'll know which files can be used directly in the Italian Windows. Of course it's not a perfect method as it only checks files from one folder but still I think it's the best one to start with as many files can be excluded thanks to it. After that it will be necessary to check the rest of them and translate the ones that don't match (In the past I used to use PE Explorer to translate files but I think there must be a more efficient method though...).

Anyway, please first run the script and post the results


@acus

There's a bug in the .NET 2.0 installer. I'll fix it as soon as possible. I want to work on the .NET 1.1 installer first. Good news is that the .NET 1.0 installer is almost ready. I hope I'll be able to upload a final version shortly. I've also managed to prepare test versions of .NET 3.0 and 3.5. You can find them in the download archive. They require UURollup-v10 to be present in the system before installation.

This post has been edited by tomasz86: 29 June 2012 - 03:21 AM

[tomasz86]

I've just uploaded the final versions of .NET 1.0 and 1.1 installers. They should install and uninstall 100% properly now. As always, I'll be very thankful for testing them.

netfx10_20120630.052857.7z
netfx11_20120630.052857.7z

[Hackeronte]

Hi tomasz,
ive downloaded filever.exe & put it in sistem32.


i've created testver.cmd with your script code & i´ve put it in Windows 2000-UURollup-v10-x86-ENU & run it but... heck !

i haven't a single flie in sistem32 that match the files conteined in Windows 2000-UURollup-v10-x86-ENU

is that possible?

i haven't thoroughly analyzed the loop logic in your batch / cmd but it seems to be correct... did you ever tried it on your machine?

I've created the files.txt in sistem32 dir but it remain untouched explorer says 0 kb

waiting Acknowledgement...

waiting Acknowledgement...
waiting Acknowledgement... ...

regards,

hackeronte

This post has been edited by Hackeronte: 29 June 2012 - 08:04 PM

[tomasz86]

I hope you meant "system32" not "sistem32"...? Of course I tested the script here! I wouldn't have uploaded it if I hadn't

Let's do it like this:

1) First of all, unpack UURollup-v10 to a path with no spaces, ex. "D:\Windows 2000-UURollup-v10-x86-ENU".

2) Copy filever.exe to %systemroot%\sYstem32.

3) Try running this in the "D:\Windows 2000-UURollup-v10-x86-ENU":

filever.exe kernel32.dll>files.txt
FOR /F "tokens=4" %%I IN ("kernel32.dll") DO ECHO>>files.txt %%I

What's the output? The file "files.txt" should be created in the UURollup directory, not in system32!

[tomasz86]

I have just uploaded a merged installer for .NET Frameworks 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0, i.e. netfx101120. Even though three different .NETs are included it's still only 35 MB

Edit: I've also added detailed information about the USP to the first post.

This post has been edited by tomasz86: 30 June 2012 - 10:57 AM