Recompilation of Vista or 7 Disk

johngalt said:

Oh, it is there - I promise you - I had started working on making a slipstreamed install with Office and WinRAR and a few other little goodies - then ran into the brick wall of not being able to pre-define the location of my special folders - and gave up.

Wait what?
What special folders?

Documents, Downloads, etc....

I manually move them to my second hard drive after every install of Vista (and now W7) - so when I need to do a new install, all my docs are on a physically separate HD and away I go - no complicated backup scheme.

My goal was to also figure out a way to have the Users tree there also - then all my *settings* and such would also get preserved - making life that much easier.

johngalt said:

Documents, Downloads, etc....

I manually move them to my second hard drive after every install of Vista (and now W7) - so when I need to do a new install, all my docs are on a physically separate HD and away I go - no complicated backup scheme.

My goal was to also figure out a way to have the Users tree there also - then all my *settings* and such would also get preserved - making life that much easier.

Ok can you just tell me this.

In vLite, how do I add an exe to be installed?

See [Tutorial] Build Windows Vista SP1 x86 DVD using vLite - MSFN Forums for adding stuff as a slip stream (in this case SP1)...

Then you can look at MSFN Forums -> Windows Post-Install Wizard (WPI) or MSFN Forums -> Windows Post-Install Wizard (WPI)

johngalt said:

See [Tutorial] Build Windows Vista SP1 x86 DVD using vLite - MSFN Forums for adding stuff as a slip stream (in this case SP1)...

Then you can look at MSFN Forums -> Windows Post-Install Wizard (WPI) or MSFN Forums -> Windows Post-Install Wizard (WPI)

The first tut didn't help much...
Can I rename my exe's to MSU and add them as hotfixes?

No - MSUs are spcailly built MSIs...

not all EXEs are MSI based....but those that are you can use unpacker to extract the MSI from....

johngalt said:

No - MSUs are spcailly built MSIs...

not all EXEs are MSI based....but those that are you can use unpacker to extract the MSI from....

I'm so lost...
I have WPI and vLite but don't know how to put programs on
For example, say I want my DVD to come preloaded with AIM and my settings, how do I do that?

With W7 it ain't gonna be possible yet until the SDK is played with and folks figure out how to do it.

For Vista, it's there, just convoluted - and 5 minutes of scanning ain't gonna get you the answer. It is there, but you have to spend a lot of time reading.

each app is gonna be different hence the time spent reading part....

z3r010 said:

Maybe worth playing with

I think I'd rather make a complete install and make an image :-P

Too much work for my own custom auto-installation DVD