mwnn Posted June 21, 2005 Share Posted June 21, 2005 hi There,New to all this so bear with me. Just downloaded the Nlite application and it doesnt state that it supports MCE.Whats the best tool out there to make an automated MCE install like Nlite would. Or is it possible to use nlite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocent Devil Posted June 21, 2005 Share Posted June 21, 2005 Yes u can nLite CD1 as any other Pro edition nLite doesNext if u want to install MCE unattended then make room for the MCE files in ur UA CD ~180MBcopy 'cmpnents' folder from CD 2 to u r UA CD root u can delete the tabletpc folder if u not install tabletpcthen in [components] section of winnt.sif addmedctr = onnetfx =onand provide u r MCE key in ' Product Key ' valueit will install mce silently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwnn Posted June 23, 2005 Author Share Posted June 23, 2005 Many thanks!! I will be trying this today when I get into the office Do I edit the winnt.sif file after Ive done all the stuff with Nlite?One quick thing. Im running an nvidia setup, drivers are extracted and when I look in say the Nforce drivers audio section there are 2 .inf files.How do I work out what one I need. So far im assuming that if there is inffile.inf and inffile2.inf to select the first one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwnn Posted June 23, 2005 Author Share Posted June 23, 2005 QUick update.Didnt need to do anything with the Winnt.sif file and it just worked, Drivers the whole shebang, only problem is that it didnt join the domain.Is there a way to make that an attended part of the installation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocent Devil Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 try this out, Join MCE to Domaini don't tested or not even tried this let u do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwnn Posted July 4, 2005 Author Share Posted July 4, 2005 It works brilliantly, after i did what that link suggested I can add MCE back onto a domain.Now all i have to work out is why my machine is crashing all the time NOthing to do with the cd i might add more of a botched driver install by myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwnn Posted July 26, 2005 Author Share Posted July 26, 2005 Hi Im having a strange problemw ith my MCE diskI copied the cmpnts folder from disk 2 into the same directory that i coped disk 1 intoSo disk 2 resides in the root foler of disk 1.When I come to make the disk in nlite, if i select to Media Centre component its only showing up as 300k.obvously i want to install MCE so i leave it unticked, create the cd and install. However onces MCE is in installed there is no media centre on there what so ever! Any ideas/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidplasmaflow Posted July 27, 2005 Share Posted July 27, 2005 You do need to edit the WINNT.SIF file, or the MCE components won't install, and you'll have plain XP Pro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwnn Posted July 29, 2005 Author Share Posted July 29, 2005 Thanks for that, im sure that I created a disk that worked and I didnt have to do that but I will go back and retry later on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magic_man Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 hello freinds i want to know if i can make activate unattended mce i made it but not activateplz help methanx bye;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocent Devil Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 refer ref.chm in Support\tools\deploy.cabput AutoAcivate=Yes in [unattended] section of winnt.sif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magic_man Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 thanx Innocent Devil,but i want to know where i put this file or what i do??refer ref.chm in Support\tools\deploy.cabv.thanx bye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocent Devil Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 winnt.sif should be in the i386 folder of CD or the install medium Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tresans Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 Hi Im having a strange problemw ith my MCE diskI copied the cmpnts folder from disk 2 into the same directory that i coped disk 1 intoSo disk 2 resides in the root foler of disk 1.When I come to make the disk in nlite, if i select to Media Centre component its only showing up as 300k.obvously i want to install MCE so i leave it unticked, create the cd and install. However onces MCE is in installed there is no media centre on there what so ever! Any ideas/<{POST_SNAPBACK}> After you have Nlite'd the cd/dvd you must go to txtsetup.sif and change all (I thought 3 of them) %cd2name% to %cd1 and your done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rozi_hotgirl Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 Hello nice post here but not working for me-how that i m telling.I genrate xppro+sp2 & also make winnt.sif- I entered value of product key , i entered mce product key and also add [Components] medctr = on netfx =onso i encountered following problems-1- copy cd to hd and run unattednded.bat that saying that product key is wrong2- During generatioin of new unattended file i select "from CD" and after completion i put winnt.sif(not winnt.sif.txt) in i386 folder but during boot from cd rom it says Driveletter:\i386\winnt.sif is not a valid file ,set up will not continue place ctrt+alt+del to resart your computer. My xppro+sp2 cd dont having winnt.sif as well as mce disk 1 also dont having winnt.sif so how can i genrate it? it prompts errors,shoul i modify any file?Is there any way to convert xppro to mce? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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