Bootable Win2k CD with multi OS\'s

[The_Flames]

I have had an Idea

If I can rember my batch programming skills I could make an batch file that could do all the required tasks to create the cd,
then I could post that on my site, people would be able to create the 3-1 cd, Oz would have his work removed, I can put the credit for the information to him, and some were somebody may be happy( I hope ).

Dont you just love people who share information untill they get pissed off, then they tell everyone else to dont share that is a bad thing to do I own the information I was giving away http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

[Josetann]

The_Flames:  the information was free, but the actual how-to he wrote was his property.  Taking his info, and building something upon that (whether it\'s another how-to, a program, whatever) would be fine.  Posting it word for word, claiming it to be your own, would be wrong.  Putting it up without permission but giving credit...that is iffy.  I think if you tried contacting him (I was going to, but no profile here and no email link on his site...didn\'t think he\'d be hanging around here else i would have just posted here) and failed, and put it up unless he requested it to be taken down, would be acceptable.

Oz:  we appreciate your work.  The_Flames meant no disrespect and I believe he gave you credit (I did not check out the link yet, it\'s probably gone now anyways).  Just take a deep breath, pet a cat (or dog if you\'re a dog person), watch some TiVo, relax...and worry about it when you\'re ready.  I think having your guide up, with full credit, would be acceptable.  It\'s your call though.

[Twinkie]

To Oz: First I would like to apologize for all the problems you are having.  I work for a school district where a large number of teachers ask the same question over and over.  I know how it goes, I think.  Maybe your situation is different.  Please remember that you have the knowledge and skill we are trying to emulate.  We are not trying to pester you!  We are trying to learn from you!  I had a chance to review your work on The_Flames site for a few hours.  It was incredibly helpful to me.  I understood while reading it that it was your work and was never under the impression anyone else was trying to steal your work.  I thought it was presented well and responsibly in that fashion.  I just want to point out that are still a large number of people looking for you knowledge and would greatly appreciate your help.

To The_Flames: Thank you for continuing to work on this project.  Considering all the messages being sent back and forth it would be easy to simply leave the problem to someone else.  Hopefully you understand that that all of us still reading are eternally in your debt.

Thanks,
Twinkie_Cream

[The_Flames]

I\'m glad that the infomation was helpfull for somebody, to say it was up for less than a day.

[Space Between]

well i messed the last link up if you tried it..sorry. i really wasnt worried about fixing it since the flames immediately afterwards posted his site with the info...after all that was a better idea by far far. but see, i dont see eye to eye with Oz. I believe what has been made to help others...should and will always help them regardless of one\'s patitence with the less patitent. So here is another WORKING link that has all the files and i even included the shareware Winimage. The links on the page dont work but you will be able to figure out what is what by right clicking and so forth. Sorry to whoever thinks that this shouldnt be shared no more...I just see otherwise and cant imagine why you would rationally think that anyways.

http://montym.homestead.com/files/Oz_3in1.zip



type you later

[Space Between]

O yeh i forgot. If the second part of the How-to that caused people to foam at the mouth was about multibootable images...then they must have really been rabid. Because the indo that Lotus Nymphaea posted very soon afterwards would of cleared that up for them. Since that is a method that works...i think :-/  (damn win98se ;P)..anyways that it\'s for me on this one...if you got another suggestion Kfh please post it. Also could you post that link that you found the info on Microsoft\'s page for clearing up that problem. Type you later brew ha\'s

[jojitb]

I\'m happy to say that I copied OZ\'s manual from theFlames\' link and it worked!  I now have a bootable 3-in-1 disk.  Thanks to OZ, wwwfox, Flames, Lotus, kfh, space, josetann, and everybody here in this forum...  

Doesn\'t it feel good to finally achieve what you been wanting to do?  I feel great!  I wish that we could all share this knowledge to everyone who wants to know how about without any conditions.  The net is about sharing knowledge and sharing it freely...

Now I want to see if I could make an NT/2K/XP disk.  Does anybody thinks this is possible?

[Kfh]

Space, the link is to kb article q228852:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/ar...RCH&SPR=WIN2000

I would be making my own win2k (all 3 versions) + win98se boot cd and will let you know how it comes along.

Kfh.

[Xitius]

Hey
My Name is Stian Hansen from Norway, i wonder if anyone have made a cd with win2k pro/server/advanced, multiboot ?
or win2k/win98 ?
if you have send me a mail, i need it..
[email protected]
/me Is a systemadmin

[jojitb]

Hi!
I have been able to make a 3-in-1 cd and made it bootable.  I just followed all the instructions in Oz\'s tutorial and did some modifications as stated in some of the threads here..

[Sic1Nine]

Even though I\'ve been successfull following all if the initial instructions that was posted by Oz and amended by Lotus Nymphaea and created the 3in1 iso I have yet to successfully install the chosen OS to a workstation from this disk without getting the BSOD that I noted in an earlier post.  The error message I kept getting was *** Stop: 0x0000006B ( 0xC00000xx, 0x??, 0x??) PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED.  Not sure which file/files would cause this error but I believe once I get past this error things should be fine.

[The_Flames]

I beleve that error is caused by ethier the bootfix.bin file been copied into the directorys were the floppy disk  images were extraceted to, or spaces at end of the lines within the cmd file or having blank lines, I found elimitating all of these factors well overcome that error.

the other way is to take no notice of the error and repeat the number option that you wanted to carry out

[Sic1Nine]

I thought I\'d give it one more try with The Flames recommendations.  Once again I\'ve got the BSOD.

At least I got the cdimage switches memorized now and can prolly do that part in my sleep.  And also I can now give the exact error I\'ve been receiving during the installation process:

*** Stop: 0x0000006B (0xC000003A,0X00000002,0X00000000,0x00000000) Process1_Initialization_Failed

Once I get this message however the only option for me is to power down and retry but I\'ve done that so many times already.  

This is a good problem.

So close yet still so far away ;-(

[The_Flames]

I Use virtual PC from http://www.connectix.com/ to test my iso images, you just start the prog secelt the iso as the cdrom and off you go http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

[Sic1Nine]

Ok.. I\'m about to toss in the towel on this one.. but before I do, what folder is it again that is supposed to be under the Root/ASRV,WPRO and WSRV folders?  
According to the notes I did take before Oz\'s site went down there is supposed to be 107 files and 1 folder with 2 files in it.  I had the 107 files but I don\'t know what folder I\'m supposed to be looking at with 2 additional files in it.

Thanks,

[The_Flames]

they are the folders with the boot floppys extracted to, and the 2 files within each zip, should join the files from boot floppie images!

[Anonymous]

So if I understand you right.. the folders you\'re refering to is ASRV,WPRO and WSRV which should contain the extracted boot floppy files and those contained in the zip.  There are no subfolders within those listed above?.... This is exactly what I have and it doesn\'t work for me.

[Space Between]

If you see the 107 files and no folder with 2 files in it you either are doing it wrong or forgot to choose extract with pathname or whatever. you take the 4.img\'s that it comes with, the ones you are supposed to put on 4 floopies, and extract all files out of each of the 4.img\'s WITH FULL PATHNAME. You do this to all the .img\'s with each os and put them in the 3 folders you are naming now.

[Sic1Nine]

Ok .. I\'ve found my problem.. Lesson Learned: Shortcuts can and will get you in trouble when you least expect it.  It appears that you can right click the *.img file and choose \"Extract\" from the menu options and even though you select \"Extract with pathname\" you must also make sure that on the CDBOOT4.img, you select all of the files and folders.  Or you\'ll do like I did, right click the file choose Extract, select Extract with pathname, choose the directory for the extraction then go to the next disk and repeat the process.  This method works only for the files in the root of the *.img file however any folders that are also in those files will be left out of the extraction. When all of the files are completely extracted you should also have the \"System32\" directory with the additional 2 files in the extraction directory that contains the 107 files.  Now I can install everything without any Stop error messages.

Thanks

[Rod]

Why the \"cdimage_alpha\" could\'t able to use the switch  \" t \" to custom the date and time of the source file(s) as MS\'s  CDIMAGE.EXE