Slipstream Win XP with nLite

[miahallen]

When I purchased my Thinkpad from IBM, Win XP Home was not included on a CD, only on the HDD with a hidden partition for system recovery. Well, this is really stupid, and I'd like to do a full HD format for spring cleanings sake, but I cannot do it with IBM's setup. So I saw this article of "<A HREF="http://www.short-media.com/printcontent.php?print=r&id=284" target="_new">Slipstreaming</A>" Windows with nLite over at Short Media.

Great tutorial, and it even seems to want to work from the c:/i386 dircetory from my HDD, except that I'm missing a file called win51ic (no extension metioned), it tells me to copy this file off my XP disc into "c://". I have another copy of XP Home upgrade on CD, can I use the win51ic file on it (Istill need to look and see that it's there, but it's not with me right now), and if so where is "c://" anyway? Is that the c:/i386 directory?

Second question, as I already said, I have that Win XP upgrade on CD, and I slipstream using that, and still input the XP CD Key for my Thinkpad? Or would I have to use the one from the upgrade disc?

 

[dhlucke]

What you should try is using a virtual drive to test your iso after you create it with nlite. That way you don't have to burn a cd/dvd that might or might not work.

You'll find this usefull: <A HREF="http://unattended.msfn.org/index.htm" target="_new">Forum</A>

That file you mentioned is in the root directory. What do you have in your root directory? If I'm not mistaken the home and pro versions have different files. The upgrade disk might be different as well. I'm not really sure, I'm speculating.

You probably will just have to try and experiment to see how the upgrade disk works. I would use it before I use the i386 folder directly off my hard drive.

Either key should work considering they're both XP Home.

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