$OEM$\\$1 and cmdlines.txt question

[edmon_cu]

If following this pattern of installing M$ addons like DirectX, IE6, WMP9 under Win2k installer, I was wondering, at what part of the Win2k installation do these addons become installed?

[jiimmy]

The last screen shown by Windows Setup, just before it reboots for the 2nd time, has 4 progress bars. Something like:

• Creating start menu Items...


• Registering components...


• Deleting temporary files...


• Saving settings...

The command lines under [SetupHotfixesToRun] in svcpack.inf are executed during the Registering components phase, when the progress bar is about 50%. Immediately following this,   it executes the commands in Cmdlines.txt. This takes the progress bar to roughly 75%.

Does this answer your question?

Also, note that at this point it is using HKLM.DEFAULT as the current user hive and %ProfilesDir%Default User as the current user directory.

[edmon_cu]

I see, thanks.
I realized, the use cmdlines.txt is case sensitive. I initially tried naming it with caps, but it did not load. I only realized that when I renamed it w/o using any caps.

Btw, I have slipstreamed IE6SP1, DX9, WMP9 with my Win2k installer in unatteneded mode already. Thanks so much for this very helpful forum. http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />