[Innocent Devil]

wats is the windows\SxS folder ??

it consumes abt 1.8 GB of my image ??
can the Sidebyside assemblies be reduced ??

[Jeronimo]

@3aces, I can think of several thigns what WLM stands for, but can you tell me. The files that you miss are removed when selecting Tablet PC I think. Maybe these files you mention need to be protected as well.

@Cronner. I had a similar error with a previous build of vLite. Only had it once, next run with same version was ok (not that useful, but maybe a bit comforting).

@Innocent Devil for me it is around 1,5GB with 0.5 beta (1,3GB with 0.7). Maybe if the files are not used runtime, that the folder can be compressed by default (brings it down to 0.85GB) ? Otherwise it would be costly to performance

@Nuhi, I do have some files related to Windows SAT in my global Temp-folder WinSAT_DX.etl, WinSAT_KernelLog.etl and WiSAT_StorageAsmt.etl (0.7 beta off course).

[3aces]

windows live messenger.......hmmm how comes i dont get this error in XP

[ripken204]

842mb, im almost able to burn it to cd!!! great work nuhi, keep it up.

btw, are you able to add ur username+password+serial num in vlite? or is that just not an option with vista?

[3aces]

Jeronimo, on Dec 14 2006, 07:52 PM, said:

@3aces, I can think of several thigns what WLM stands for, but can you tell me. The files that you miss are removed when selecting Tablet PC I think. Maybe these files you mention need to be protected as well.

i can confirm it is the tablet files missing which are needed by WLM and Office 2003, nuhi can you work on a "keep" box for files now......i seem to feel we are approaching that point

Thanks Jeronimo

[XPero]

One thing I've encountered, maybe it happened to someone else:

When removing Network Adapter Drivers, Vista won't let me install my own drivers. They actually install, but the device cannot be started. I have the nForce 2 network adapter. In my second try I kept network adapter drivers and everything went fine. 2 possibilities I come up: One, my network drivers are not Vista compatible (weird, because I use latest ones and if Vista ones are compatible, they must be on nVidia website ready for download) and two, there is some dependency there that break network adapter installation. I will kepp on trying with further vLite versions. Now enjoying Vista

[Jeremy]

Nuhi, my second time using Vista Lite the ISO creation worked. However, upon loading it in VMware, the beginning of the install process gives me this CMD box. Any ideas?

[Roufneck]

XPero, on Dec 15 2006, 05:09 PM, said:

One thing I've encountered, maybe it happened to someone else:

When removing Network Adapter Drivers, Vista won't let me install my own drivers. They actually install, but the device cannot be started. I have the nForce 2 network adapter. In my second try I kept network adapter drivers and everything went fine. 2 possibilities I come up: One, my network drivers are not Vista compatible (weird, because I use latest ones and if Vista ones are compatible, they must be on nVidia website ready for download) and two, there is some dependency there that break network adapter installation. I will kepp on trying with further vLite versions. Now enjoying Vista

I had some problems as well. But then I found out that nVidia discontinued nforce2 support for vista.

Google for: nforce2 vista discontinued

I use the standard vista drivers without any errors.

[dexter.inside]

Jeremy, on Dec 15 2006, 06:32 PM, said:

the beginning of the install process gives me this CMD box. Any ideas?

That's the Windows PE 2.0 prompt... it happened to me when image #2 from boot.wim got corrupted.

[MFCK]

vLite 0.7 beta work fine for me, exepted WMP and explorer thumbnail view (of movies).
It seem that vLite cancel Mpeg1/2 codecs integrated with WMP.
If I reinstall Mpeg1/2 codecs and Vista codec pack, WMP and BSplayer are capable to play all movies.
And the explorer thumbnail view work again.
Thanks for your hard work on this piece of sofware !!

Here my preset :

Quote

; vLite preset file

[Information]Version = 0.7 beta on 2.0.50727.312 Microsoft Windows NT 6.0.6000.0
Target = Windows Vista ULTIMATE 32bit

[Components]
;# Drivers #
Display adapters
Ethernet network adapters
Modems
Printers
Scanners
Sound controllers
;# Games #
Inbox Games
Premium Inbox Games
;# Hardware Support #
Fax Support
Smartcards
Windows Image Acquisition
;# Languages #
Japanese
Korean
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
;# Multimedia #
Media Center
Movie and DVD Maker
Screensavers
SideShow
Speech Support
Tablet PC
Wallpapers
Windows Media Samples
Windows Photo Gallery
Windows Sidebar and Gadgets
;# Network #
Connect to a Network Projector
Windows Collaboration
;# Services #
Error Reporting
Microsoft DFS Replication
Volume Shadow Copy
Windows Remote Management
Windows Search
;# System #
Accessibility
Help
Microsoft Agent
Security Center
Sync Center
System Restore
Welcome Center
Windows Backup
Windows Easy Transfer
Windows SAT
Zip Folder

[Options]
User Account Control (UAC) = Disabled
Hibernation = Off

[Protection]

[bledd]

jeremy, the winbeta version doesn't work properly with vlite

need the real final rtm

[pedrohsi]

The winbeta version (x86 and x64) DOES work, but you have to do a little trick:

right before you make the ISO file or burn directly, copy all the contents with the original directory structure into vlite's target directory. you effectively use the target dir as root for the new DVD but you keep the original structure of the winbeta DVD. since vlite will include everything in that folder, you will have a modified winbeta DVD - if you modded both installations and the size stays below 4,4 GB. Tried it, it works 100%

This post has been edited by pedrohsi: 17 December 2006 - 03:10 PM

[Yuki Kajiura]

it's easy to fit vlited vista on a cd
just remove support, upgrade & sources dir (except boot.wim and install.wim)
i tried this and vista installed and worked fine


and i have problem with vmware (ver. 5.5.0 build 18463)
vista installer says it cant find cd\dvd drivers (or something like that) and so i cant install it
does anyone know what to do?

This post has been edited by Yuki Kajiura: 20 December 2006 - 08:04 PM

[dexter.inside]

Yuki Kajiura, on Dec 21 2006, 03:56 AM, said:

i have problem with vmware (ver. 5.5.0 build 18463)

The best VMware to run Vista / Longhorn Server is Workstation 5.5.3 build 34685 with logging disabled, no memory swapping and independent-persistent preallocated disks (snapshots disabled).

[Renkastle]

I had a problem Building a RC1 Vista DVD..

When i put the winvista folder the app show me a window that says: MIssing Registry FIle, Please Report

When i Build the Winvista the app show me the same windows and the program ends..

[prathapml]

Hi nuhi,
a particular issue that i found:

When running on Vista-32:
1. vLite starts
2. I browse to vista folder
3. it starts analysing something
4. immediately crash & OS restarts.
fix: NONE

When running on XP64:
1. vLite starts
2. I browse to vista folder
3. it starts analysing something
4. immediately error dialog, about Microsoft.System.Xml
fix: dont use mini-frameworks or framework-lite 2.0r3 -----> install the proper dotnetfx-x64-2.0

When running on XP (32bit, with SP2):
1. works fine.
reason: ryanvm's dotnet 2.0 switchless installer works only here.



The above issue seems to be related to xml parsing.
I fixed one of those myself, & posted the solution here for others that might have same problem.
But i wonder why it still has problems on Vista32?

[AHRIMANSEFID]

Plz Help ME For Extract Install.Wim
Thank You

[nuhi]

prathapml, I have a problem...can't reproduce that BSOD and I know it's true in rare cases because one other person reported it too.
Do you maybe have any pointers?
Or maybe someone else got the same issue? BSOD on image selection.

[prathapml]

Hi nuhi, i will report back with any more info i can find, when i run vLite again.

But till then dont worry, you've done a superb job on this app!
I ran it on XP-32bit & got a perfect vista already, so it will be a loooo-o-ong time before i run it again.

[Koyote]

Quote

vLite 0.7 beta work fine for me, exepted WMP and explorer thumbnail view (of movies).
It seem that vLite cancel Mpeg1/2 codecs integrated with WMP.
If I reinstall Mpeg1/2 codecs and Vista codec pack, WMP and BSplayer are capable to play all movies.
And the explorer thumbnail view work again.

I'm facing the same problem atm, however all attempts to get WM11 to accept an xvid codec afterwards have
failed. Koepi, K-lite, ... doesn't seem to matter what I install, WM11 will not find the codec.

Any suggestions on how I can force this ? If not which vlite option triggered this, disabled media center or
movie and DVD maker ?

Another issue I was facing is the disabling of security center. After installing the standard software and rebooting
I think windows wanted to show me some sort of security warning, which lead to a 5 min windows lockup
followed by a warning on black background "Security center unable to create window ..." or similar. System
would not respond after that. I had to re-install with the option turned back on. I'm running a dutch OS btw.

Thanks in advance for the help guys.