ravenz Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 (edited) When I load the prepared ISO into a VMware machine and start it:The first thing it displays is "inspecting properties and harware".Then the blue background "select partition" displays! shouldn't it be automated? I say "use full space".Then it starts copying files and prompts what to do with missing ones for each missing file (I removed some applications from the distribution, using nLite of course)I had to press ESC for each file and further it installs ok. Edited July 16, 2006 by ravenz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#rootworm Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 (edited) i don't think nlite has full support for automating the partitioning process. you can make it unattended yourself if you do a bit of research.99% of the time missing files during setup is a corrupt driver.cab, open it in WinRAR and click 'Test'.the other 1% of the time it's a txtsetup.sif with erroneous entries (since you used nlite this shouldn't be the case) Edited July 16, 2006 by #rootworm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camarade_Tux Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 It has already been asked and as far as I remember nuhi said he wouldn't implement it. With nlite, you can remove the "Press any key to boot on the CD..."; imagine : you use your CD under windows, reboot and forget to remove the CD, your computer has been formatted!As for the missing files, could you give on or two names ?It's indeed possible driver.cab is corrupted, it's also possible some other files are corrupted. Same method applies. (and applies to the original CD too)Have you tried making another iso ?Sometimes, especially if the computer is under heavy load because of another process nlite process may encounter some problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravenz Posted July 16, 2006 Author Share Posted July 16, 2006 Good point about danger of accidentaly auto-formating your disk, Camarade_Tux.Missing files are files like 'defrag.exe', I specified to delete these under nLite. No part of the process was manual so I guess it is a problem in nLite. Redoing everything helped! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuhi Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 ravenz, if you specifically added defrag.exe in custom remove box that will fail because it won't remove all connections to a file, better to remove defrag with option in nlite - remove components. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeveL Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 (edited) Nuhi please don't ever put in an option to auto partition! Or if you do, hide it away so I can't accidentally tick it @ ravenz - It is only a case of changing a 0 to a 1 in I386\WINNT.SIF[Data]AutoPartition=1Just don't blame me if you accidentally boot from the ISO one day Edited July 16, 2006 by LeveL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuhi Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 LeveL, oo don't worry, it took me 5 days to ruin all partitions with that option, thank god for undelete...which on the other hand got me paranoid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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