Bootable Win2k CD with multi OS\'s

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the info but I did not have a -y1 in command line for cdimage, I did as the Tech-Hints.com (Windows 2000 Multiboot CD) site said.  Any thoughts.  Please

[Anonymous]

I followed tech-hints guide but I seem to get an error during the setup process. After the drivers finish loading, on the bottom of the screen, it says \"Setup is loading Win2k install\" and then a blue screen pops up. It says something about initialization failed. I was wondering how could I fix this?

[Anonymous]

See Bart\'s bootable CD page at http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/.

If your Windows XP files are already \"slipstreamed\" with a service pack you must also copy the win51ic.SPx or win51ip.SPx file.
This will prevent the CD asking \"put the SPx CD into drive A:\" during install.

It worked for me http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

[Avneet]

hi plizz can u email the instructions and the software u used to make this CD..plizzz ..i really need it..thx

for ur help

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[Spiderman]

hi ok ..i have been reading this thread but still havnt got wat i wanted...i want to make  multi boot cd containing windows 98 SE, windows 2000 Pro and windows XP Pro ..so is there anyway to do this..i really need to know .plizzz..so i hope someone can help me..

thx

[Houbi]

Hi
I've been trying to make a Win2000/WinXP bootcd. However I cant get it to work. Win2000 will correctly boot but when I 'hit enter to install' it first asks for the EULA which cant be found. Making a WINNT.SIF took care of that error, however it now complains about not having a previous OS and enter CD something. Exact erorr message is: (directly translated from my lang)
The cd could not be read or it is not a cd with Windows NT 3.51 or 4.0
Insert the cd with Windows NT 3.51 workstation, Windows NT 4.0 workstation, Windows 95 or Windows 98.
* Press enter when CD is inserted
* Press F3 to exit

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In my cdroot a folder called \"W2KP\" contains the I386 folder of win2000, I've tried both with SP3 slipstreamed and the original.
The 2kbootsector in the cdroot is hexedited to point to this folder. The setupldr.bin is hexedited to point to that folder and the txtsetup.sif is edited to point to that folder, however it wont find the eula or the folder at all it seems during installation. What is wrong?
I got the cdrom_ip.5 and cdrom_nt.5 in the root and in the W2kP folder.
I read something about txtsetup.sif being hardcoded could that be the prob?
Could it perhaps have to do with the letters being all caps or not?
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And a note to all you f* lamers asking quote:
hi plizz can u email the instructions and the software u used to make this CD..plizzz ..i really need it..thx

No, it aint never gonna happen that anyone helps a lowlife like you that wont even try yourself but want someone to do all the work for you.

[MrU]

[quote name=\'cybervyk\' date=\'Jun 1 2001, 02:43 PM\']I have read a number of posts here regarding the building of the Win2k boot CD.  I have succesfully done this many times since the first success.  I've also made a bootable Windows NT 4.0 Server CD with the 2000 bootimg.bin and bootfix.bin.
  I was, however, wanting to take it a step or two further.  I would like to be able to set up an optional boot that would enter either the Windows 2000 setup or the Windows NT 4.0 setup.  The first and most devastating problem is that they both want to run out of I386.  I have also succesfully hacked the bootimg.bin (seems to be a popular name for the boot sector image off the the 2000 CD) to start from a, say, 4386 or 5386 folder.  The boot is succesful, but the installation is very choppy because so much of the installation is hard wired to run from the I386 directory.
  I have not been able to find any help on the internet concerning the bootimg.bin, the boot sector from the cd.  Most all of the sites with instructions on building such a cd offer the file as a seperate download, the rest simply instruct someone to use (usually) CDRWin to rip it off of the 2000 CD.  But, I can not seem to find discourse with those who may be more familiar with how this tiny little program works.
  Anyone who has been inside of it would certainly recognize the "SETUPLDR.BINBOOTFIX.BINI386" at the end of the data section.  I'd mentioned that I was able to get it to run from "5386" for example by changing "BINI386" to "BIN5386".  I can do this for a number of boot sectors, but would rather find a way to get it to start from w2ki386 or     nt4i386.  
  Toward accomplishing this, I've come across two stumbling blocks.  First, I can not seem to get the thing to recognize more than four characters for a path, i.e., I cannot tell it to go to nt4i386.  The second stopping point is that I also cannot seem to specify a path any deeper than one off of the root.  Again, being limited to four characters, I tried to set up my files in a directory called simply 86 under another folder off of the root caled 4.  Hacking the boot sector file with 486 instead of I386 still did not work.
  Anyone have further insight into the nature of this beast?
  Thank you and please also give me feedback if I have been unclear.  I tend to do that from time to time.  =/

  Vic

<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small"><EM>Edited by cybervyk on 06/01/01 04:16 PM.</EM></FONT></P>[/quote]
http://berns.cae.wisc.edu/pages/wincdman.asp

[Evilvoice]

Uhm, MrU what was your point, as this thread has developed wincdman has already been used by most people here, or those who do know about it dont want to use it, I have no idea why you posted that.  Ok, for Houbi, IM trying to understand but let me see if this helps.
1.  Create a folder to be root (this can be called root, or the name of the os's on the cd, i called mine w2k98)
2.  Make a folder for each os thats only 4 letters long under your root folder
  a.  Examples (w2kp, w2ka, w2ks, volp, volh, xpro, xhom, home, xppr, adsv, serv, wsrv, wpro) All these are good, but make sure you are able to tell which is which os
3.  Now, under this 4 letter folder make another folder, call this one nr1efre_en (this is for windows 2000 enterprise server, nr2pfre_en would be for xp pro, nr2efre_en would be windows 2003 enterprise and so forth and so on, you can use any folder name, but I like those as they go with the way microsoft actually names its cd's)
4.  Within this path root\4letter folder\nr??fre_en\ Put your i386 folder, you 0K files (cdrom_ip...blah blah blah), setup.exe and anything else you want (I only have for w2k pro the files cdrom_ip.5, cdrom_nt.5, cdromsp3.tst, autorun.inf, setup.exe, read1st.txt, readme.doc, spnotes.htm, and the folder i386 in nr1pfre_en).
5.  Within the I386 folder you can delete all folder with upg and mig if you do not intend to ever run an upgrade or migrate from another os, you can also delete the lang folder if you only want to use english, and you can delete the compdata folder (no idea what its for).
6.  DO NOT EDIT txtsetup.sif or setupldr.bin in this folder, ill get to it in a second
7.  Download the boot floppies for the os your gonna install.
8.  Extract the boot floopies (make sure you extract with pathname) to the 4 letter folder
9.  Edit setupldr.bin to point to your four-letter folder (should find either 3 or 4 instances)
10.  Edit txtsetup.sif to point to the path of your I386 folder (should look like \"\4letterfolder\nr1pfre_en\\"
11.  So within nr1pfre_en you should have an untouched setupldr.bin and an untouched txtsetup.sif.

And that should be it.  Youre done.  Pack the cd and boot it (as long as youre using a bootloader like bootscriptor, cdshell, or something - hopefully you know about those and are using them as you can just update them with the info to the w2k.bin or wxp.bin file.  Hopefully this is understandable - I opt for this way which is different from tech-hints or anyone here as I havent seen it displayed, because it makes the root of the cd look cleaner and without have a \"root\" folder http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

[Houbi]

Evilvoice: Thx for the reply but I actually solved my prob some time ago  http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

My mistake was putting the I386 files in a folder not called I386 but directly in a folder called W2KP or WXPP in the cdroot.
What I did was put these files in cdroot\WXPP\I386 and then I put the bootfloppy in cdroot\WXPP.
That miss got me quite pissed for a while though  http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':rolleyes:\' />

[kog]

Hello

I have a bootable cd that has 8 versions of windows XP (I didn't even know they had that many). I never have used it myself, but I have read the detailed instructions of how the cd was created. Quite nifty.

[ESiemiat]

I am experiencing some strange behavior with Images I create with CDImage.exe v2.39 & v2.47. I can create ISO files using the -o switch just fine. I can even burn them to the CD without a problem. The trouble occurs if I later wish to copy the CD that was made from the ISO file.

What happens is the CD copies without errors, and on the surface everything looks fine. But when I do a binary comparison 1 or 2 files don't match; They are missing data at the end of them. If I copy all the files off the CD and recreate the ISO file all works OK for the initial burn, it's just copying that causes the problem. Any ideas why?

I have tried using EZCD, Nero, and Alcohol 120% with both normal and a 1:1 copy. Each time with the same problem. Even weirder is the fact that the same files error out each time off the same CD. But different ISO files cause different files to to get corrupted.

[Space Between]

You overburn???

also have you tried cdrwin or discjuggler? both of those are good.

i ran into problems myself like that once.  what i did was copy the image
with cdrwin and extract all the files out using isobuster...worked fine.
however off the disc this wouldnt work right.

you did opt to use the HIGHTEST binary comparison when creating the .iso right?? the
tut on how to make the multi os cd with cdimage across the web seem to
not choose this option in the command line. It is a MUST that you use that
option or else this could result in cross-linked files getting corrupt or whatever.

[tbirke.de]

Hallo,

my 3in1 cd's without SP, with sp1, dp2, sp3 works fine. Now i tried sp4. when setup runs i got the message that i have to insert the sp3 cd. The cdromsp4.tst is in the root directory.

Can anybody help?

Thanks

[tbirke.de]

the os is w2k....

[Major Disaster]

-------Copied from other topic---------

I too am having a problem creating a working Slipstreamed Windows 2000 SP4 3-in-1 CD. Mine is always asking for the Service Pack 4 CD.

Now before you all jump in, here's some more info...

I have a fully working Windows 2000 SP3 3-in-1 CD. I am copying the CD contents to my harddrive, applying the slipstreaming process to each of the versions of Windows 2000, copying the cdromsp4.tst file to the root directory of my CD files, copying the new txtsetup.sif files to their respective bootdisk folders, editing the copy in the bootdisk folder to point to uenglish/xxxx based on the version of 2000, and then finally creating the iso and burning it to disk (CDRW).

Obviously, I am forgetting something, but what is it that am I missing?

thanks,
Jeff


PS. I am able to make individual SP4 CDs for each of the versions of Windows 2000, so I am obviously missing something here (especially if others are successful in making a windows 2000 3-in-1 cd with SP4 slipstreamed)...

[Oz]

You have to copy over the SETUPLDR.BIN into each boot folder too, then do a search and replace for the I386 with the name of the folder where it resides.

[Major Disaster]

Well, thanks to someone on one of the other threads, the solution to my problem was that in the \UENGLISH\ directory structure I needed to have the CDROM_nt5, CDROM_iX.5, and CDROMSP4.tst files in the root of each of these structures.

Strange how my SP3 3-in-1 Windows 2000 CD didn't have this and worked fine.

thanks for everyone's help...

[tguy]

Oz,

Where did you download the Windows 2000 3in1 CD from?  I have been looking all over for it.

I tried making my own copy but got emulation errors after selecting the OS version to install.

T

[Guest]

Hey all,

I just stumbled upon this site...  wish i found it sooner, it would have saved me a lot of time.

Anyway...  I'm trying to make a multi-boot cd that will boot (among other things) directly into the Win XP recovery console.  I can get it to boot to the windows XP setup no problem, just can't get it directly into the Recovery Console.

BTW.. I'm using isolinux, and memdisk.

Thanks,
Jim

[Guest]

[quote name=\'ESiemiat\' date=\'Jun 24 2003, 11:55 AM\']I am experiencing some strange behavior with Images I create with CDImage.exe v2.39 & v2.47. I can create ISO files using the -o switch just fine. I can even burn them to the CD without a problem. The trouble occurs if I later wish to copy the CD that was made from the ISO file.

What happens is the CD copies without errors, and on the surface everything looks fine. But when I do a binary comparison 1 or 2 files don't match; They are missing data at the end of them. If I copy all the files off the CD and recreate the ISO file all works OK for the initial burn, it's just copying that causes the problem. Any ideas why?

I have tried using EZCD, Nero, and Alcohol 120% with both normal and a 1:1 copy. Each time with the same problem. Even weirder is the fact that the same files error out each time off the same CD. But different ISO files cause different files to to get corrupted.[/quote]
 My best guess is that you created an iso image that doesn't conform to the iso standard.  During the copy, some files may get hacked to conform to the standard.

Jim