it is very important to cleanup.
IE driverpacks is run multiple times on the same source. Then it must be removed before it can be added again.
Some of files are line edited some are backed up and restored in the process.

many hours of the code work in RC3 is spent on streamlining this particular section of the code.
many of the modules contained similar yet unique routines that are being consolidated into logical subroutines.
i believe the process will eliminate anomalies that show up as strange problems and eliminate some unreported ones.

for example the mass storage INI has drivers tagged as exceptions. skip / replace / disable
in 752 the INI for the current driverpack is used to remove the old mass storage drivers.
i now copy the current INI to i386 in this way the same exceptions are used as when it was installed.
90% of the time the exceptions are not changed or deleted, but if they did change the removal or restore could be affected.
IE if an existing driver was changed to skip in the mass INI it would not be removed before resliptreaming.
(and thus not really skipped at all) or if it was changed from replace to skip then it would not get restored. (and still would not be skipped)

this was unreported as a problem but i thought it should be fixed...
stuff like that and the restore option - which can be addressed while i am working on this section.

i think that it makes sense to avoid crippling windows features without any reason.

That line in the beginning makes the repair option work no matter what the user uses, as long as the [unattended] section is not in the winnt.sif file.
The repair.sif file I use for my multiboots has the complete file, less anything in the unattended section.

No matter what you do, if that section is in the winnt.sif file, the repair option will not be presented.

The DEL /F %systemroot%\system32\setupold.exe line is only to prevent the setup called itself issue during a repair.

Oh... I think I just uderstood what you were talking about. If the user selects M2 AND guirunonce, there is no need to set OEMPreinstall and that would be correct.

if i move that line to the first part of the file
and
if the user selects m2 and guirunonce

(instead of runonceexe and or M1) then i would not need to set the OemPreinstall=Yes

if the user doesn't use nlite or otherwise set OemPreinstall=Yes
then repair will be offered and still work?

without haveing to edit anything themselfs

Sorry bout that man.

RC = Request for comments...

Ill update it (now that i know)

i may make this a feature... if i were to code it that way -hmmm

the rc version of base includes that fix dizzy

The last check I did, the rc puts it at the end of the file, not the beginning.  With it at the end, it has been hit and miss as to working, at the beginning it is flawless.

care to share?

To get around the lack of a distribution folder ($OEM$) I have done it so the presetup.cmd copies a bat file to the C drive then that is run from the end of WINNT.SIF, this bat file then runs the DPsFnshr.exe then the bat file even deletes itself All the $OEM$ stuff is copied over from the bat file, its not the conventional way but it works.

But, for it to work CORRECTLY, the presetup.cmd in I386 on the CD needs to be edited after you run DPBase.....

DEL /F %systemroot%\system32\setupold.exe

that needs to be at the BEGINNING of the cmd file.

not sure about the msdos initiated line. No means we are useing a CD? do you intend to boot from floppies?

MsDosInitiated = "0"
If this setting is on "0" it will inform Setup that you are installing from CD, put a value of 1
if you use only diskettes to boot.

i belive you are correct about OemPreinstall=Yes  - you tell us

PS the RC version of base will probably work better for you. it addresses the setupold.exe issue.

[Data]
MsDosInitiated=No

[Unattended]
OemPreinstall=Yes

[GuiRunOnce]
command9="%SystemDrive%\DPsFnshr.exe"

Can I remove the "MsDosInitiated=No" part?

Can I remove the "OemPreinstall=Yes" (this stops you accessing the "Repair" option when running Windows setup)

Can I remove the "command9="%SystemDrive%\DPsFnshr.exe" if I put this command in a file that runs on first login?

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[Unattended]
OemPreinstall=Yes

When this is in WINNT.SIF, it tells it to copy files from $OEM$ but I am using method 2 so there is no drivers in $OEM$ and for the other stuff I want to copy over, I have made a file that unpacks it all when my first bat file runs on first login.

Just wanna keep the repair option.