View Single Post
Old 05-31-2010, 05:27 PM   #3
Flint
Snowflake
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Dystopia
Posts: 13,136
Quote:
Originally Posted by Flint View Post
I'm about to try using nLite 1.4.9.1 to build an XP disc slipstreamed with Intel Matrix Storage Manager.

If this goes reasonably smoothly, I sadly will have less reason to visit my friend, the USB floppy drive.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Flint View Post
Well the bootable image I built with nLite has successfully loaded iastor without prompting and is now formatting the drive.

I am also trying the the "Unattended" feature which let me preload prompts (like the key, the language/timezone) that usually require you to hover over an install...as well as preload user, domain, network info, etc. ...waiting to see how that part goes...
I popped the CD in and the entire install ran without intervention. The first thing I've had to click is "to inprove the appearance of visual elements" (although I believe I could have specified the resolution etc. as well). Hmmm...the auto updates setting didn't stick (it is asking me how I want it set). I'm having to enter a "temp" username...even though now I see that the user I built is in place.

Maybe these wouldn't happen if I ran at full auto, but also it would error out and not tell me in this case, if I didn't specify a field properly that was needed.

Well, the actual problem of not having a USB Floppy at home with me was solved by building a slipstreamed CD with this utility, so in that regard "mission accomplished."
__________________
******************
There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there
it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your
expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever
gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio
Flint is offline   Reply With Quote