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General Category => Software => Topic started by: Gouk on December 15, 2001, 10:59:06 PM

Title: Have i come to the right place?
Post by: Gouk on December 15, 2001, 10:59:06 PM

First post here /biggrin.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':D\' />

I have Windows NT 4.0 which I would like to make into a customised CD with all the hot fixes and software on it but there is a problem.

The original size of the CD unpacked into a folder is like 660Mb and the fixes are around 100Mb. Is there any files or folders that I can remove from the CD which wont affect the Operating system and installation.

I heard its ok to remove the:

ALPHA
PPC
MIPS

folders,

Please give me your advice. My PC installs from the i386 folders from what i know but i am sure you know more than me.

I await your reply and thx for a very helpful site /happy.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'^_^\' />

Bye!

PS: Can I install on a 40Gb Hard Disk NT4 using all the 40Gig with a NTFS partition?

Title: Have i come to the right place?
Post by: Josetann on December 15, 2001, 11:54:03 PM

Yes, you can take out the alpha, mips, and ppc folders.  Those are specialized installation files for non-intel processors.  Second, you can\'t directly install NT4 to a 40gig partition.  First, make a partition about 2gigs or so (I think 8gigs is the limit).  Then apply the latest service pack (have to do this step, else it\'ll never work on a partition larger than 8 gigs).  Then, use a program like partition magic to expand the partition to fill the entire drive.  That should work.

Title: Have i come to the right place?
Post by: Gouk on December 16, 2001, 12:08:59 AM

Also what format does the CD have to be other than Bootable.

I made a custom Win95 CD (its OSR2.1) with a new folder called updates which contains DX8 and IE5.5 and the CD format is CDFS. Is this correct or does it have to be RAW?

Also can you make a Win95 Cd bootable because in Connectix VPC 2.2 when I try to use a \'valid\' floppy disk it says:

Remove Media
Press any key to Restart

And when I do get into the a: prompt and type
d:setup.exe

or

e:setup.exe

it says:

Invalid Drive Specification

I know the third question belongs to the Connectix forum but no-one gave a good answer there.

Can you help a newbie?

THX!!

PS: Can you direct me to a site which gives a tutorial on how to do automated silent installs?

Title: Have i come to the right place?
Post by: Josetann on December 16, 2001, 12:13:28 AM

Use a win98 startup floppy (also called an emergency disk I believe) to boot.  It has the drivers to recognize the cdrom drive.  Note that the cdrom drive will be bumped down one letter, i.e. if it\'s usually d: it\'ll be e: instead (the ramdisk it makes takes the drive letter right after the hard drive(s), so with one hard disk and one cdrom drive you\'ll have c: for the hard drive, d: for the ramdisk, and e: for the cdrom drive).

Title: Have i come to the right place?
Post by: The_Flames on December 16, 2001, 08:26:27 AM

If you use the 2k boot cd guide (avalible from the main page) you can use the 2k book sector to do your job, then all your partitions will be correct!

you just need you I386 folder with the files in the cd root

Title: Have i come to the right place?
Post by: meV on December 16, 2001, 10:26:28 PM

U use symbolic links to minimize space use ...  it is somewhere in  

http://www.thetechguide.com/forum/showflat...ew=&sb=&o=&vc=1 (http://\"http://www.thetechguide.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=software&Number=903&page=&view=&sb=&o=&vc=1\")

meV