Unattended boot cd for windows 98/98se

See the autoexec. See the code This problem doesn't occur when you use Virtual PC to test the CD, but in a real test, the system still asks for a location for more drivers. The trick around this is to turn your monitor off during install or at least when the first boot to the desktop occurs , but it would still be nice to be able to leave the monitor on.

If there's anyone out there with suggestions about how to solve this problem, pls post. In order to do it unattended, use the dxsetup. There are a few that are tricky to get eg Microsoft VM but all.

Rename them to fit the code of your bat files. See my examples below. There are many postings on this site to help you. It would have taken me months to go through the number of tests I did to come up with the code you see below.

Or just try to marry the code below with your circumstances as closely as you can. If choice. My method searches for setuptip. Just make sure you use a file that exists on your CD in your code. Here's the code Sorry for the length of the post but I'm only including the code necessary for people to understand, I've left out as much as I thought I could.

The [optional components] section has been snipped to save space and I've snipped the list of apps I install during setup but kept a few for examples. More info at the location of the snips. Thankx for the feedback. So in the same way Update1. Regshot 1. You may want to try it. I've nearly reached the end of this project and so I thought I'd add all the interesting info I've come across to this post for others to benefit I'll adjust the first post to reflect this. To improve the chances of Windows finding my monitor, I tried substituting all the monitor infs from Windows ME - and it appears to work ie it doesn't stuff things up like trying to use the ones from Windows XP does - you'll need to use the INF installer for each of the 13 monitor infs.

Just in case you missed the first message, only do the above suggestion if you don't want your monitors to work when entering the GUI stage. Just worked it out : there is a way to bypass the monitor drivers stage regardless - when you've started the install process, just switch the monitor off. When Setup gets to the first proper boot up, it doesn't ask for extra monitor drivers cause it can't tell which one you have.

It will still ask you for them when you finally boot with the monitor turned on, but at least you can get thru the whole setup process instead of having the process interrupted half way. So, yay, a fully updated and unattended setup is possible!!! Still, in a perfect world we'd all like to have the monitor on so we can see the magic happen - I'm sure there's a way to direct the system to not search for extra drivers.

Can anyone shed some more light on this part of Windows setup? SYS and JO. SYS these files should be in the boot image to give your Boot CD extra spice and to show off to your friends that you can modify all instances of 'Windows' and 'Microsoft' to rather funnier versions.

Its annoying that if you forget to delete it before trying to get on the net, a completely unwanted invitation to connect to MSN appears. Apparently the Batch98 utility was designed to achieve this but it doesn't work even if you just try it without ANY updates at all , and there was also a Dec KB article that showed how to do it, but that doesn't work either.

Actually it may work but the code was posted without any context - its unclear which other settings need to appear in tandem. I've also tried RegShot paraglider version - thanks eidenk but not extensively, to no avail. I was quite overjoyed to find a posting on how to shrink an office installation but the posted suggestions don't seem to work for Office 2K. Or other suggestions to making the shrink work? All the special icons that appear on the desktop are specified in the registry by a GUID value corresponding to a CLSID key which in turn specifies the icon and the context menu of the icon under one of those keys :.

Automatically removing any should just be a matter of adding a convenient registry file to batch setup. There are 2 programs however in german, but it should be understandable , which can make a custom monitor. If the registry files that are added to batch setup are processed after everything else as it should, the above registry file should automatically remove the MSN icon from the desktop.

Otherwise adapt it. Try it and tell me if it works. Thanks for all the suggestions - I only got it to work after setup finishes.

I tried adding it to run after Internet Explorer 6 sp1 finishes which is the last piece of setup before the first boot to the desktop but I'm guessing it gets added back as a configuration process as the first desktop is loading up. So I've added it to the start of media The 1st post has been adjusted. Thanks heaps for those [Enh] settings, Kukris, but it seems ack-hh has taken issue with them. Could you either post a link to somewhere that explains the settings you've suggested, or could you provide a short explanation of each one?

For the same reason I'm ignoring any suggestions regarding custom monitor infs, or solutions for a particular monitor I want it to work for whichever monitor is present , the suggestion for the MaxFileCache is not helpful unless we can somehow determine how much RAM is present.

I searched quite a bit for a solution and it appears that its only easily possible in NT or higher. Someone please tell me I'm wrong. Well, I'd really like to know why for nearly all your points, ack-hh because I'm curious not because I disagree! The only point I can sort of agree with is the one about MaxFileCache but only because of the point I made above, in that we need to know the amount of RAM before automatically setting it.

You'd have to be pushing it to the very limit in some way that I can't even think of to need it. What makes you say what you wrote? And I think everyone would benefit if you elaborated further with reasons for why you said what did. Don't take this the wrong way, I think all your comments have been very useful so far! And you wrote: 'when would you ever NEED to? I thought the purpose of including it was to improve performance.

I've noticed much less swap file activity with it turned on. Also, why is naming the page file 'pagefile. In an ideal world, an assertion would be followed by a reason and even better, an example. And, lastly, thanks for the post re: shrinking office - it worked perfectly - my office archive file is only 65Mb! Specifies the drive and name for the swap file. Direct download via magnet link. I had it on my hard drive for who knows how long. Figured I mind as well seed it.

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