Hi Folks, I've created several of these in the past. I'm getting a bit lost with Nero v7 though. When you get to the point when you copy your XP disc files to the ISO Panel? What ISO Panel? I've attached the file I've always worked from. I'm stuck at the section reading, " Locate the folder C:\XP\CD-ROOT Select everything in the folder and copy it to the ISO compilation panel." This is on page 4. The UI's changed that much in v5 I'm getting a bit lost. Anyone help or even poitn me to instructions on how to do this using Nero 7? A brief google yealded nothing useful. Thanks, Barry.
Hello Barry and all, I got stuck at the same point that you did while using Nero. I'm not positive, but I think the writer of this documentation was using an older version of Nero so perhaps the copying of files is a bit different. I was attempting to make one of these bootable xp disks for the unattended installation for a job and I never was able to figure out how to make it work either. I tried a different burning program but it didn't give me the booting options that Nero does. This has been a big stumbling block for me while I've been seeking employment. I've looked into installing the windows xp to a server so that I could run the installation via network instead, but I've never been able to get that working either. I've tried Ghost and some other imaging programs, the version of Ghost for the job I mentioned earlier was the old dos version and I wasn't able to get a dos screen reader to work with it since the dos in the Ghost program appeared to be a graphical dos and wouldn't talk. If I could make the unattended installation work with an answer file, this would help in installing Vista, Server 2003, and others as well. If anyone has any information as to how this can be done, I've actually heard something about being able to do an unattended installation of Windows using a Linux program, I would be most interested in hearing about it. Thanks for listening and sorry I could not be more helpful. Best Regards, Beth _____ From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Barry Toner Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 1:04 PM To: blind-sysadmins Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Hi Folks, I've created several of these in the past. I'm getting a bit lost with Nero v7 though. When you get to the point when you copy your XP disc files to the ISO Panel? What ISO Panel? I've attached the file I've always worked from. I'm stuck at the section reading, " Locate the folder C:\XP\CD-ROOT Select everything in the folder and copy it to the ISO compilation panel." This is on page 4. The UI's changed that much in v5 I'm getting a bit lost. Anyone help or even poitn me to instructions on how to do this using Nero 7? A brief google yealded nothing useful. Thanks, Barry.
Beth, lol *bonks self on head* All ya need do is tab to CD ROM Boot in the CD selection list and wack enter. It's been a very very long day. I've still got my chest infection and went into work today and what a day it was. When you hit return you're in the Explorer style Window and can copy the files over. You go back into burn with ctrl b and can write the disk. ----- Original Message ----- From: Beth Hatch To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:17 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Hello Barry and all, I got stuck at the same point that you did while using Nero. I'm not positive, but I think the writer of this documentation was using an older version of Nero so perhaps the copying of files is a bit different. I was attempting to make one of these bootable xp disks for the unattended installation for a job and I never was able to figure out how to make it work either. I tried a different burning program but it didn't give me the booting options that Nero does. This has been a big stumbling block for me while I've been seeking employment. I've looked into installing the windows xp to a server so that I could run the installation via network instead, but I've never been able to get that working either. I've tried Ghost and some other imaging programs, the version of Ghost for the job I mentioned earlier was the old dos version and I wasn't able to get a dos screen reader to work with it since the dos in the Ghost program appeared to be a graphical dos and wouldn't talk. If I could make the unattended installation work with an answer file, this would help in installing Vista, Server 2003, and others as well. If anyone has any information as to how this can be done, I've actually heard something about being able to do an unattended installation of Windows using a Linux program, I would be most interested in hearing about it. Thanks for listening and sorry I could not be more helpful. Best Regards, Beth ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Barry Toner Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 1:04 PM To: blind-sysadmins Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Hi Folks, I've created several of these in the past. I'm getting a bit lost with Nero v7 though. When you get to the point when you copy your XP disc files to the ISO Panel? What ISO Panel? I've attached the file I've always worked from. I'm stuck at the section reading, " Locate the folder C:\XP\CD-ROOT Select everything in the folder and copy it to the ISO compilation panel." This is on page 4. The UI's changed that much in v5 I'm getting a bit lost. Anyone help or even poitn me to instructions on how to do this using Nero 7? A brief google yealded nothing useful. Thanks, Barry. __________ NOD32 2909 (20080228) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins __________ NOD32 2909 (20080228) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
I did this for the last tech job I worked, but I can't remember how I did it offhand. I do remember I had to ignore the documentation at that point and play with it until I got it figured out. I'll have a look again within the next couple days and see if I can remember just how I made it work. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beth Hatch" <bhatch200@comcast.net> To: "'Blind sysadmins list'" <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 14:17 Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP
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Dear Barry: Here is a product I was introduced to by my CISCO colleges' Both of these products will generate the Unattended install and burn the ISO image to your desired media. I used these tools to complete an installation to VM Workstation 6.02 to allow for AT testing with SP1 for VISTA and SP3 for Windows RC2. http://www.vlite.net for unattended VISTA Installations nLite - Deployment Tool for the bootable Unattended Windows ... nLite 1.4.1. 2007.12.12. More and more people started to report that setup ... nLite 1.4 Final. 2007.11.04. Here is the final version to finish this series ... www.nliteos.com/ Sincerely, Christopher McMillan, CIO CEEK Technology http://ceektechnology.spaces.live.com http://www.ceektechnology.com Skye: chrismmcmillan WM: chrismcmillan@ceektech.com or christophermcmillan@hotmail.com E-mail: chrismcmillan@ceektech.com or christophermcmillan@hotmail.com From: Barry Toner Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:04 PM To: blind-sysadmins Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Hi Folks, I've created several of these in the past. I'm getting a bit lost with Nero v7 though. When you get to the point when you copy your XP disc files to the ISO Panel? What ISO Panel? I've attached the file I've always worked from. I'm stuck at the section reading, " Locate the folder C:\XP\CD-ROOT Select everything in the folder and copy it to the ISO compilation panel." This is on page 4. The UI's changed that much in v5 I'm getting a bit lost. Anyone help or even poitn me to instructions on how to do this using Nero 7? A brief google yealded nothing useful. Thanks, Barry. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
Thansk very much Christopher. I used N Lite a few years ago. Will have to check it's latest version out. Thanks again, Barry. ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher McMillan To: Blind sysadmins list Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:22 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Dear Barry: Here is a product I was introduced to by my CISCO colleges' Both of these products will generate the Unattended install and burn the ISO image to your desired media. I used these tools to complete an installation to VM Workstation 6.02 to allow for AT testing with SP1 for VISTA and SP3 for Windows RC2. http://www.vlite.net for unattended VISTA Installations nLite - Deployment Tool for the bootable Unattended Windows ... nLite 1.4.1. 2007.12.12. More and more people started to report that setup ... nLite 1.4 Final. 2007.11.04. Here is the final version to finish this series ... www.nliteos.com/ Sincerely, Christopher McMillan, CIO CEEK Technology http://ceektechnology.spaces.live.com http://www.ceektechnology.com Skye: chrismmcmillan WM: chrismcmillan@ceektech.com or christophermcmillan@hotmail.com E-mail: chrismcmillan@ceektech.com or christophermcmillan@hotmail.com From: Barry Toner Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:04 PM To: blind-sysadmins Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Hi Folks, I've created several of these in the past. I'm getting a bit lost with Nero v7 though. When you get to the point when you copy your XP disc files to the ISO Panel? What ISO Panel? I've attached the file I've always worked from. I'm stuck at the section reading, " Locate the folder C:\XP\CD-ROOT Select everything in the folder and copy it to the ISO compilation panel." This is on page 4. The UI's changed that much in v5 I'm getting a bit lost. Anyone help or even poitn me to instructions on how to do this using Nero 7? A brief google yealded nothing useful. Thanks, Barry. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins __________ NOD32 2909 (20080228) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins __________ NOD32 2909 (20080228) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
Yep, NLite is your friend. The only trouble with it is how to remove stuff you don't want installed, JFW doesn't speak the state of the items in the list, checked or unchecked. My system might need a reformat pretty soon, I just wonder how to best get my drivers in to the install disk so I have working sound. ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher McMillan To: Blind sysadmins list Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Dear Barry: Here is a product I was introduced to by my CISCO colleges' Both of these products will generate the Unattended install and burn the ISO image to your desired media. I used these tools to complete an installation to VM Workstation 6.02 to allow for AT testing with SP1 for VISTA and SP3 for Windows RC2. http://www.vlite.net for unattended VISTA Installations nLite - Deployment Tool for the bootable Unattended Windows ... nLite 1.4.1. 2007.12.12. More and more people started to report that setup ... nLite 1.4 Final. 2007.11.04. Here is the final version to finish this series ... www.nliteos.com/ Sincerely, Christopher McMillan, CIO CEEK Technology http://ceektechnology.spaces.live.com http://www.ceektechnology.com Skye: chrismmcmillan WM: chrismcmillan@ceektech.com or christophermcmillan@hotmail.com E-mail: chrismcmillan@ceektech.com or christophermcmillan@hotmail.com From: Barry Toner Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:04 PM To: blind-sysadmins Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Hi Folks, I've created several of these in the past. I'm getting a bit lost with Nero v7 though. When you get to the point when you copy your XP disc files to the ISO Panel? What ISO Panel? I've attached the file I've always worked from. I'm stuck at the section reading, " Locate the folder C:\XP\CD-ROOT Select everything in the folder and copy it to the ISO compilation panel." This is on page 4. The UI's changed that much in v5 I'm getting a bit lost. Anyone help or even poitn me to instructions on how to do this using Nero 7? A brief google yealded nothing useful. Thanks, Barry. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
You can slipstream your sound drivers using the instructions from the file I attached in my initial email. IMHO a better investment is a generic USB soundcard. That way XP will have plug-in play drivers and you can have sound at startup regardless of sound configuration and what machine your using. ----- Original Message ----- From: Brent Harding To: Blind sysadmins list Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:57 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Yep, NLite is your friend. The only trouble with it is how to remove stuff you don't want installed, JFW doesn't speak the state of the items in the list, checked or unchecked. My system might need a reformat pretty soon, I just wonder how to best get my drivers in to the install disk so I have working sound. ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher McMillan To: Blind sysadmins list Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Dear Barry: Here is a product I was introduced to by my CISCO colleges' Both of these products will generate the Unattended install and burn the ISO image to your desired media. I used these tools to complete an installation to VM Workstation 6.02 to allow for AT testing with SP1 for VISTA and SP3 for Windows RC2. http://www.vlite.net for unattended VISTA Installations nLite - Deployment Tool for the bootable Unattended Windows ... nLite 1.4.1. 2007.12.12. More and more people started to report that setup ... nLite 1.4 Final. 2007.11.04. Here is the final version to finish this series ... www.nliteos.com/ Sincerely, Christopher McMillan, CIO CEEK Technology http://ceektechnology.spaces.live.com http://www.ceektechnology.com Skye: chrismmcmillan WM: chrismcmillan@ceektech.com or christophermcmillan@hotmail.com E-mail: chrismcmillan@ceektech.com or christophermcmillan@hotmail.com From: Barry Toner Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:04 PM To: blind-sysadmins Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Hi Folks, I've created several of these in the past. I'm getting a bit lost with Nero v7 though. When you get to the point when you copy your XP disc files to the ISO Panel? What ISO Panel? I've attached the file I've always worked from. I'm stuck at the section reading, " Locate the folder C:\XP\CD-ROOT Select everything in the folder and copy it to the ISO compilation panel." This is on page 4. The UI's changed that much in v5 I'm getting a bit lost. Anyone help or even poitn me to instructions on how to do this using Nero 7? A brief google yealded nothing useful. Thanks, Barry. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins __________ NOD32 2909 (20080228) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins __________ NOD32 2909 (20080228) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
Hello Barry, What is a good usb sound card that doesn't require drivers? All of the ones I've played with seem to require drivers so they wouldn't be good with an unattended installation. Thanks, Beth _____ From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Barry Toner Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 12:25 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP You can slipstream your sound drivers using the instructions from the file I attached in my initial email. IMHO a better investment is a generic USB soundcard. That way XP will have plug-in play drivers and you can have sound at startup regardless of sound configuration and what machine your using. ----- Original Message ----- From: Brent <mailto:bharding@doorpi.net> Harding To: Blind sysadmins list <mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:57 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Yep, NLite is your friend. The only trouble with it is how to remove stuff you don't want installed, JFW doesn't speak the state of the items in the list, checked or unchecked. My system might need a reformat pretty soon, I just wonder how to best get my drivers in to the install disk so I have working sound. ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher McMillan <mailto:christophermcmillan@hotmail.com> To: Blind sysadmins <mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> list Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Dear Barry: Here is a product I was introduced to by my CISCO colleges' Both of these products will generate the Unattended install and burn the ISO image to your desired media. I used these tools to complete an installation to VM Workstation 6.02 to allow for AT testing with SP1 for VISTA and SP3 for Windows RC2. http://www.vlite.net for unattended VISTA Installations <http://www.nliteos.com/> nLite - Deployment Tool for the bootable Unattended Windows ... nLite 1.4.1. 2007.12.12. More and more people started to report that setup ... nLite 1.4 Final. 2007.11.04. Here is the final version to finish this series ... www.nliteos.com/ Sincerely, Christopher McMillan, CIO CEEK Technology http://ceektechnology.spaces.live.com http://www.ceektechnology.com Skye: chrismmcmillan WM: chrismcmillan@ceektech.com or christophermcmillan@hotmail.com E-mail: chrismcmillan@ceektech.com or christophermcmillan@hotmail.com From: Barry Toner <mailto:barry@barry-toner.co.uk> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:04 PM To: blind-sysadmins <mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Hi Folks, I've created several of these in the past. I'm getting a bit lost with Nero v7 though. When you get to the point when you copy your XP disc files to the ISO Panel? What ISO Panel? I've attached the file I've always worked from. I'm stuck at the section reading, " Locate the folder C:\XP\CD-ROOT Select everything in the folder and copy it to the ISO compilation panel." This is on page 4. The UI's changed that much in v5 I'm getting a bit lost. Anyone help or even poitn me to instructions on how to do this using Nero 7? A brief google yealded nothing useful. Thanks, Barry. _____ _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _____ _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins __________ NOD32 2909 (20080228) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com _____ _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins __________ NOD32 2909 (20080228) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
Hi Beth, The Griffin Imic doesn't require any drivers. All the best Steve _____ From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Beth Hatch Sent: Friday 29 February 2008 12:47 To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Hello Barry, What is a good usb sound card that doesn't require drivers? All of the ones I've played with seem to require drivers so they wouldn't be good with an unattended installation. Thanks, Beth _____ From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Barry Toner Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 12:25 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP You can slipstream your sound drivers using the instructions from the file I attached in my initial email. IMHO a better investment is a generic USB soundcard. That way XP will have plug-in play drivers and you can have sound at startup regardless of sound configuration and what machine your using. ----- Original Message ----- From: Brent <mailto:bharding@doorpi.net> Harding To: Blind sysadmins list <mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:57 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Yep, NLite is your friend. The only trouble with it is how to remove stuff you don't want installed, JFW doesn't speak the state of the items in the list, checked or unchecked. My system might need a reformat pretty soon, I just wonder how to best get my drivers in to the install disk so I have working sound. ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher McMillan <mailto:christophermcmillan@hotmail.com> To: Blind sysadmins <mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> list Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Dear Barry: Here is a product I was introduced to by my CISCO colleges' Both of these products will generate the Unattended install and burn the ISO image to your desired media. I used these tools to complete an installation to VM Workstation 6.02 to allow for AT testing with SP1 for VISTA and SP3 for Windows RC2. http://www.vlite.net for unattended VISTA Installations <http://www.nliteos.com/> nLite - Deployment Tool for the bootable Unattended Windows ... nLite 1.4.1. 2007.12.12. More and more people started to report that setup ... nLite 1.4 Final. 2007.11.04. Here is the final version to finish this series ... www.nliteos.com/ Sincerely, Christopher McMillan, CIO CEEK Technology http://ceektechnology.spaces.live.com http://www.ceektechnology.com Skye: chrismmcmillan WM: chrismcmillan@ceektech.com or christophermcmillan@hotmail.com E-mail: chrismcmillan@ceektech.com or christophermcmillan@hotmail.com From: Barry Toner <mailto:barry@barry-toner.co.uk> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:04 PM To: blind-sysadmins <mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Hi Folks, I've created several of these in the past. I'm getting a bit lost with Nero v7 though. When you get to the point when you copy your XP disc files to the ISO Panel? What ISO Panel? I've attached the file I've always worked from. I'm stuck at the section reading, " Locate the folder C:\XP\CD-ROOT Select everything in the folder and copy it to the ISO compilation panel." This is on page 4. The UI's changed that much in v5 I'm getting a bit lost. Anyone help or even poitn me to instructions on how to do this using Nero 7? A brief google yealded nothing useful. Thanks, Barry. _____ _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _____ _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins __________ NOD32 2909 (20080228) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com _____ _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins __________ NOD32 2909 (20080228) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
Hi, How large is this sound card? The C-media which I believe uses the same chipset as my headset that a friend has that I was talking about, is very small, almost as small as a pendrive. Andrew. _____ From: Steve Nutt [mailto:steve@comproom.co.uk] Sent: 29 February 2008 12:49 To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Hi Beth, The Griffin Imic doesn't require any drivers. All the best Steve _____ From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Beth Hatch Sent: Friday 29 February 2008 12:47 To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Hello Barry, What is a good usb sound card that doesn't require drivers? All of the ones I've played with seem to require drivers so they wouldn't be good with an unattended installation. Thanks, Beth _____ From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Barry Toner Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 12:25 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP You can slipstream your sound drivers using the instructions from the file I attached in my initial email. IMHO a better investment is a generic USB soundcard. That way XP will have plug-in play drivers and you can have sound at startup regardless of sound configuration and what machine your using. ----- Original Message ----- From: Brent Harding To: Blind sysadmins list Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:57 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Yep, NLite is your friend. The only trouble with it is how to remove stuff you don't want installed, JFW doesn't speak the state of the items in the list, checked or unchecked. My system might need a reformat pretty soon, I just wonder how to best get my drivers in to the install disk so I have working sound. ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher McMillan To: Blind sysadmins list Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Dear Barry: Here is a product I was introduced to by my CISCO colleges' Both of these products will generate the Unattended install and burn the ISO image to your desired media. I used these tools to complete an installation to VM Workstation 6.02 to allow for AT testing with SP1 for VISTA and SP3 for Windows RC2. http://www.vlite.net for unattended VISTA Installations nLite - Deployment Tool for the bootable Unattended Windows ... nLite 1.4.1. 2007.12.12. More and more people started to report that setup ... nLite 1.4 Final. 2007.11.04. Here is the final version to finish this series ... www.nliteos.com/ Sincerely, Christopher McMillan, CIO CEEK Technology http://ceektechnology.spaces.live.com http://www.ceektechnology.com Skye: chrismmcmillan WM: chrismcmillan@ceektech.com or christophermcmillan@hotmail.com E-mail: chrismcmillan@ceektech.com or christophermcmillan@hotmail.com From: Barry Toner Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:04 PM To: blind-sysadmins Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Hi Folks, I've created several of these in the past. I'm getting a bit lost with Nero v7 though. When you get to the point when you copy your XP disc files to the ISO Panel? What ISO Panel? I've attached the file I've always worked from. I'm stuck at the section reading, " Locate the folder C:\XP\CD-ROOT Select everything in the folder and copy it to the ISO compilation panel." This is on page 4. The UI's changed that much in v5 I'm getting a bit lost. Anyone help or even poitn me to instructions on how to do this using Nero 7? A brief google yealded nothing useful. 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Dear Brent: Well I will have to look at again with JFW 8 and 9. I was using with WE 6.1 and ZT 9.1. I thanks for heads up. Chris McMillan Get Skype and call me for free. From: Brent Harding Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:57 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Yep, NLite is your friend. The only trouble with it is how to remove stuff you don't want installed, JFW doesn't speak the state of the items in the list, checked or unchecked. My system might need a reformat pretty soon, I just wonder how to best get my drivers in to the install disk so I have working sound. ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher McMillan To: Blind sysadmins list Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Dear Barry: Here is a product I was introduced to by my CISCO colleges' Both of these products will generate the Unattended install and burn the ISO image to your desired media. I used these tools to complete an installation to VM Workstation 6.02 to allow for AT testing with SP1 for VISTA and SP3 for Windows RC2. http://www.vlite.net for unattended VISTA Installations nLite - Deployment Tool for the bootable Unattended Windows ... nLite 1.4.1. 2007.12.12. More and more people started to report that setup ... nLite 1.4 Final. 2007.11.04. Here is the final version to finish this series ... www.nliteos.com/ Sincerely, Christopher McMillan, CIO CEEK Technology http://ceektechnology.spaces.live.com http://www.ceektechnology.com Skye: chrismmcmillan WM: chrismcmillan@ceektech.com or christophermcmillan@hotmail.com E-mail: chrismcmillan@ceektech.com or christophermcmillan@hotmail.com From: Barry Toner Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:04 PM To: blind-sysadmins Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Hi Folks, I've created several of these in the past. I'm getting a bit lost with Nero v7 though. When you get to the point when you copy your XP disc files to the ISO Panel? What ISO Panel? I've attached the file I've always worked from. I'm stuck at the section reading, " Locate the folder C:\XP\CD-ROOT Select everything in the folder and copy it to the ISO compilation panel." This is on page 4. The UI's changed that much in v5 I'm getting a bit lost. Anyone help or even poitn me to instructions on how to do this using Nero 7? A brief google yealded nothing useful. Thanks, Barry. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
OK, I haven't tried System Access to go, as it may work properly. The main idea works if you use something like easyvmx.com to configure an empty VMWare setup and use player to install it. It will probably complain about activation in 30 days as I just wanted to test the disk's functionality that way so I don't make my machine useless until I get a sighted person to finish it. Will I need to physically unplug my external drive I use for backup of my data and downloads so unattended doesn't reformat it? I can't seem to find the winnt.cif file that NLite created to tell what it will really do to maybe tweak it a little. ----- Original Message ----- From: christophermcmillan@hotmail.com To: Blind sysadmins list Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] NLite with JFW Dear Brent: Well I will have to look at again with JFW 8 and 9. I was using with WE 6.1 and ZT 9.1. I thanks for heads up. Chris McMillan Get Skype and call me for free. From: Brent Harding Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:57 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Yep, NLite is your friend. The only trouble with it is how to remove stuff you don't want installed, JFW doesn't speak the state of the items in the list, checked or unchecked. My system might need a reformat pretty soon, I just wonder how to best get my drivers in to the install disk so I have working sound. ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher McMillan To: Blind sysadmins list Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Dear Barry: Here is a product I was introduced to by my CISCO colleges' Both of these products will generate the Unattended install and burn the ISO image to your desired media. I used these tools to complete an installation to VM Workstation 6.02 to allow for AT testing with SP1 for VISTA and SP3 for Windows RC2. http://www.vlite.net for unattended VISTA Installations nLite - Deployment Tool for the bootable Unattended Windows ... nLite 1.4.1. 2007.12.12. More and more people started to report that setup ... nLite 1.4 Final. 2007.11.04. Here is the final version to finish this series ... www.nliteos.com/ Sincerely, Christopher McMillan, CIO CEEK Technology http://ceektechnology.spaces.live.com http://www.ceektechnology.com Skye: chrismmcmillan WM: chrismcmillan@ceektech.com or christophermcmillan@hotmail.com E-mail: chrismcmillan@ceektech.com or christophermcmillan@hotmail.com From: Barry Toner Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:04 PM To: blind-sysadmins Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Hi Folks, I've created several of these in the past. I'm getting a bit lost with Nero v7 though. When you get to the point when you copy your XP disc files to the ISO Panel? What ISO Panel? I've attached the file I've always worked from. I'm stuck at the section reading, " Locate the folder C:\XP\CD-ROOT Select everything in the folder and copy it to the ISO compilation panel." This is on page 4. The UI's changed that much in v5 I'm getting a bit lost. Anyone help or even poitn me to instructions on how to do this using Nero 7? A brief google yealded nothing useful. Thanks, Barry. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
Dear Brent and List:I will look into this on a couple of my VM builds to see what would happen. In regards to your external drive, I don't have any answer on that but am surveying the forum lists as we speak to see if anything pops up. All I can say is that on my test machine I have it dual booting from a Debian Server / XP Box. I have two USB drives connected and when I did the unattended backup on my VM workstation first to see what would happen, it did not recognize any of these partitions. So practice is one thing and your production unit is another. If i find anything I will let you and the list know. Sincerely, Christopher McMillan, CIO CEEK Technology Blog: http://ceektechnology.spaces.live.com Web Site: http://www.ceektechnology.com WM: chrismcmillan@ceektech.com or christophermcmillan@hotmail.com E-mail: chrismcmillan@ceektech.com or christophermcmillan@hotmail.com From: bharding@doorpi.net To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:17:48 -0600 Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] NLite with JFW OK, I haven't tried System Access to go, as it may work properly. The main idea works if you use something like easyvmx.com to configure an empty VMWare setup and use player to install it. It will probably complain about activation in 30 days as I just wanted to test the disk's functionality that way so I don't make my machine useless until I get a sighted person to finish it. Will I need to physically unplug my external drive I use for backup of my data and downloads so unattended doesn't reformat it? I can't seem to find the winnt.cif file that NLite created to tell what it will really do to maybe tweak it a little. ----- Original Message ----- From: christophermcmillan@hotmail.com To: Blind sysadmins list Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] NLite with JFW Dear Brent: Well I will have to look at again with JFW 8 and 9. I was using with WE 6.1 and ZT 9.1. I thanks for heads up. Chris McMillan Get Skype and call me for free. From: Brent Harding Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:57 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Yep, NLite is your friend. The only trouble with it is how to remove stuff you don't want installed, JFW doesn't speak the state of the items in the list, checked or unchecked. My system might need a reformat pretty soon, I just wonder how to best get my drivers in to the install disk so I have working sound. ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher McMillan To: Blind sysadmins list Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Dear Barry: Here is a product I was introduced to by my CISCO colleges' Both of these products will generate the Unattended install and burn the ISO image to your desired media. I used these tools to complete an installation to VM Workstation 6.02 to allow for AT testing with SP1 for VISTA and SP3 for Windows RC2. http://www.vlite.net for unattended VISTA Installations nLite - Deployment Tool for the bootable Unattended Windows ... nLite 1.4.1. 2007.12.12. More and more people started to report that setup ... nLite 1.4 Final. 2007.11.04. Here is the final version to finish this series ... www.nliteos.com/ Sincerely, Christopher McMillan, CIO CEEK Technology http://ceektechnology.spaces.live.com http://www.ceektechnology.com Skye: chrismmcmillan WM: chrismcmillan@ceektech.com or christophermcmillan@hotmail.com E-mail: chrismcmillan@ceektech.com or christophermcmillan@hotmail.com From: Barry Toner Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:04 PM To: blind-sysadmins Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Hi Folks, I've created several of these in the past. I'm getting a bit lost with Nero v7 though. When you get to the point when you copy your XP disc files to the ISO Panel? What ISO Panel? I've attached the file I've always worked from. I'm stuck at the section reading, " Locate the folder C:\XP\CD-ROOT Select everything in the folder and copy it to the ISO compilation panel." This is on page 4. The UI's changed that much in v5 I'm getting a bit lost. Anyone help or even poitn me to instructions on how to do this using Nero 7? A brief google yealded nothing useful. Thanks, Barry. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _________________________________________________________________ Climb to the top of the charts! 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A good rule of thumb is to unplug any storage from the local machine that is not needed during an install. Many's a tech has wiped out their own data or worse anothers. I only leave the System drive connected. Barry ----- Original Message ----- From: Brent Harding To: Blind sysadmins list Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:17 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] NLite with JFW OK, I haven't tried System Access to go, as it may work properly. The main idea works if you use something like easyvmx.com to configure an empty VMWare setup and use player to install it. It will probably complain about activation in 30 days as I just wanted to test the disk's functionality that way so I don't make my machine useless until I get a sighted person to finish it. Will I need to physically unplug my external drive I use for backup of my data and downloads so unattended doesn't reformat it? I can't seem to find the winnt.cif file that NLite created to tell what it will really do to maybe tweak it a little. ----- Original Message ----- From: christophermcmillan@hotmail.com To: Blind sysadmins list Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] NLite with JFW Dear Brent: Well I will have to look at again with JFW 8 and 9. I was using with WE 6.1 and ZT 9.1. I thanks for heads up. Chris McMillan Get Skype and call me for free. From: Brent Harding Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:57 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Yep, NLite is your friend. The only trouble with it is how to remove stuff you don't want installed, JFW doesn't speak the state of the items in the list, checked or unchecked. My system might need a reformat pretty soon, I just wonder how to best get my drivers in to the install disk so I have working sound. ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher McMillan To: Blind sysadmins list Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Dear Barry: Here is a product I was introduced to by my CISCO colleges' Both of these products will generate the Unattended install and burn the ISO image to your desired media. I used these tools to complete an installation to VM Workstation 6.02 to allow for AT testing with SP1 for VISTA and SP3 for Windows RC2. http://www.vlite.net for unattended VISTA Installations nLite - Deployment Tool for the bootable Unattended Windows ... nLite 1.4.1. 2007.12.12. More and more people started to report that setup ... nLite 1.4 Final. 2007.11.04. Here is the final version to finish this series ... www.nliteos.com/ Sincerely, Christopher McMillan, CIO CEEK Technology http://ceektechnology.spaces.live.com http://www.ceektechnology.com Skye: chrismmcmillan WM: chrismcmillan@ceektech.com or christophermcmillan@hotmail.com E-mail: chrismcmillan@ceektech.com or christophermcmillan@hotmail.com From: Barry Toner Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:04 PM To: blind-sysadmins Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP Hi Folks, I've created several of these in the past. I'm getting a bit lost with Nero v7 though. When you get to the point when you copy your XP disc files to the ISO Panel? What ISO Panel? I've attached the file I've always worked from. I'm stuck at the section reading, " Locate the folder C:\XP\CD-ROOT Select everything in the folder and copy it to the ISO compilation panel." This is on page 4. The UI's changed that much in v5 I'm getting a bit lost. Anyone help or even poitn me to instructions on how to do this using Nero 7? A brief google yealded nothing useful. Thanks, Barry. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins __________ NOD32 2909 (20080228) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
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Andrew Hodgson
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Barry Toner
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Beth Hatch
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Brent Harding
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Christopher McMillan
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christophermcmillan@hotmail.com
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Nehemiah Hall
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Steve Nutt