[nonno fabio]

after 2 years of successful unattended cds, suddenly I've got on both my pcs these fatal errors at setup.
I haven't found a reason. I made no modifications to their structure, always working in the past: deleting unuseful directories (support, sbsi, docs, valueadd, lang, win9xupg, ecc.) create my own Winnt.sif file and $OEM$ directory, containing cmdlines.txt and runonceex.cmd file for installing a few applications.
I say, it always worked but now during setup, at T-15 (registering components) appears the following error message, who says (sorry, I translate from Italian: don't know if it's the exact phrase): "unable to load internet connection wizard - unable to find Icfg95.dll"
Sure! That file doesn't exist on xp cd... now why do you ask for it?
If i click on OK, the setup goes on normally. But at the last restart, when Runonceex.cmd is execute, new messages appear: "the windows installer service could not be accessed. You may be running in safe mode or windows installer may not be correctly installed" when Runonceex.cmd runs a .msi file.
And again: "RPC server is unavailable..." when XP tries to install the printer driver,
I've made hundreds of attempts, but it's always the same: my unattended cd, always perfect till yesterday, now works only with SP2 slipstreamed and Winnt.Sif. If I modify everything more...error!
The problem appears before cmdlines.txt processing, so I don't think it's a $oem$ problem, and it is the same on 2 different pc.
I googled for it but never read of something similar...

Systems are both Win XP SP2 Home Italian OEM. Attached is the template of my Winnt.sif file (i also tried to remove some strings but with no success)
Tnx

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•  WINNT.SIF (835bytes)
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This post has been edited by nonno fabio: 20 June 2006 - 02:59 PM

[T D]

Is this an upgrade installation? Cos there's a icfgnt5.dll in my i386 but not a 95. Did you upgrade from win 95 or something?

[nonno fabio]

absolutely no.
I've made my tests always on blank fat32 formatted c: partition (no virtualpc).

even in my CDs there's only icfgnt5.dll. I don't know neither what nor why asks me for that file.

[T D]

It's probably a redundant piece of junk leftover from somewhere. Open txtsetup.sif, dosnet.inf etc, look for all entries of icfg95.dll and del the whole line.

[nonno fabio]

i don't think so: all the files contained in I386 directory used during testing are exactly the same of the original windows cd (except winnt.sif and setupp.ini).

However in txtsetup.sif, dosnet.inf, etc. there are no lines claiming for icfg95.dll, only for icfgnt.dll and icfgnt5.dll.

all this look impossible but it's true: I've also thinked of an .iso burning error so i tried to recreate an iso of the original cd with the same sw (NLite) I used to create uacd. The new iso works like the original, the uacd instead shows those errors.

It's driving me mad!

This post has been edited by nonno fabio: 19 June 2006 - 09:42 AM

[JuMz]

If you are using RyanVM's update packs (an older one), take a look at this...

http://www.ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?...ighlight=icfgnt

[T D]

Oh.
That sort of clears it up.

[nonno fabio]

Very nice link, JuMz! :

perhaps I find the solution there (now I've got no time to try...).

...Modification of the signed inf files (e.g. swflash.inf or wmp.inf) causes the problem....

Before seeing for the first time the error messages, I directly slipstreamed in the uaCD the new flash 9.0.2 files (flash.ocx and swflash.inf)

I will inform you: tnx

[JuMz]

nonno fabio, on Jun 20 2006, 11:00 AM, said:

Very nice link, JuMz! :

perhaps I find the solution there (now I've got no time to try...).

...Modification of the signed inf files (e.g. swflash.inf or wmp.inf) causes the problem....

Before seeing for the first time the error messages, I directly slipstreamed in the uaCD the new flash 9.0.2 files (flash.ocx and swflash.inf)

I will inform you: tnx

No problem! Good luck!

[nonno fabio]

bingo!!! Solved.