Forum: EasyBoot
Topic: How to integrate setup disks?
started by: sam
Posted by sam on Oct. 06 2005,11:22
Hi everyone

I am trying to integrate all 6 setup disks (for Windows XP Pro) into one image, xxxx.img or xxxx.iso format. (I am having these setup diska in .img format.)

I have an idea to do this for win2000 too.

Can any one help me? Please.

sam
Posted by Incroyable HULK on Oct. 06 2005,18:09
See this topic:
< http://forum.ezbsystems.net/cgi-bin....up+disk >

this is how I got the recovery console for my multi-boot CD... (it's the same as you want)
Posted by sam on Oct. 06 2005,19:10
Thank you Incroyable HULK for your help

I tried the way explained and it worked. But after load some files, it says 'Insert setup disk 2 and press Enter'. How can I overcome this problem? Please help me.

Regards sam

Posted by eureka on Oct. 07 2005,01:49
To sam

You don’t have necessary ident files on the root (EasyBoot\disk1).
Make sure you have all the three win51, win51ip and/or win51ip.sp2 files in
the root directory.

Notice (extra) different ident files depending to different system.

XP Professional:
Win51ip.sp1 - sp1 ident file
Win51ip.sp2 - sp2 ident file

XP Home:
Win51ic.sp1 - sp1 ident file
Win51ic.sp2 - sp2 ident file

Sorry, I didn’t mentioned ident files in my tutorial, as this is an assumption
to get things working, when running WinXP-setup.

Regards eureka
Posted by sam on Oct. 07 2005,09:41
Thanks eureka

I have inserted the three files u mentioned, but it didn't work. I am not sure wether I am doing the right way.

Here I explain what I have did.

(1) I downloded a file named "WindowsXP-KB310994-SP2-Pro-BootDisk-ENU.exe" from Microsoft website. It contains the following files

makeboot.exe
makebt32.exe
cdboot1.img
..........
..........
cdboot6.img


as u explained i extracted all files from these image files into disk1/i386 folder and run the file "w2ksect.bin"

But i got the following error message

Windows Setup
============



                Please insert the disk labeled Windows XP Professional ServicePack2 CD into Drive A:


              * Press ENTER when ready.



Then i copied the following files into the disk1/i386 folder

WIN51
WIN51IP
win51ip.SP2


Still I got the same error message.
(I tested using vmware)

Is this way is right or something missing?

please help me

sam


eureka, i have just copied the first two images into two seperate floppy disks and boot the pc from floppy disk 1

I have got the message like this


Please insert the disk labeled Windows XP Professional SP2 setup disk #2 into Drive A:


              * Press ENTER when ready.


I think something wrong the the way i did
please explain

thanks


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Posted by eureka on Oct. 07 2005,10:05
To sam

I quote: ” You don’t have necessary ident files on the root (EasyBoot\disk1).”

You have copied ident files to the inside of folder i386! You won’t have any use for this inside folder i386.
I repeat, put ident files on the root, witch means EasyBoot\disk1

Like this: EasyBoot\disk1\Ezboot
            EasyBoot\disk1\i386
            EasyBoot\disk1\win51
            EasyBoot\disk1\win51IP
            EasyBoot\disk1\win51ip.SP2

Regards eureka
Posted by sam on Oct. 07 2005,10:26
eureka, thanks u very very much. It works now.

but, i have another problem.

Actually my idea is to install Win XP from the hard disk where i copied the the whole installation cd into a directory.

Now I got a message like this

"setup cannot find the End user Licensing Agreement (EULA)

setup cannot continue. To quit, press F3."

please help

thank u very much

sam
Posted by eureka on Oct. 07 2005,12:03
To sam

Quote: ” Actually my idea is to install Win XP from the hard disk where i copied the whole installation cd into a directory”.

This needs a lot of rework to achieve. In fact, I’m not sure it’s possible? And further more, you won’t win anything with this arrangement. I don’t think it “speeds up” install routines.

I strongly suggest unattended installation (with different chooses of unattended). Or use Ghost (Symantec). Another way to solve this issue of yours could be “universal imaging software” (Symantec ghost).  Link here: < http://www.bigbangtraining.com/universal_image.html >

This makes it possible to “install” a system witch is designed bye yourself.

I have been testing this imaging on different computers, and YES it really works!!! Except some odd hardware (“Dell workstation”), but as mentioned, this is a very odd machine.

It’s always fun to see people when I use this together with EasyBoot. It’s like “injecting” WinXP to the computer!

Sorry can’t for the moment answer your initial question.

regards eureka