still not a bad idea, because it could be anything, perhaps a sound driver, videro driver, or perhaps a driver but no knowing which one is causing a problem,
having a all in 1 cd is quite a good idea, ecspecially if one has a tight time limit getting a system setup,
one solution is of course using cd-rw's, but many many drives don't like installing from these, usually get massive slow downs, and if it's a old drive, then usually one gets a error at some point about a file can't be read,
i like you also need to create 2 CD's aswell, although i'm learning to create a network install version, and i've already learnt how to do PXE booting (PXE booting took a while to learn but i got there)
gets worst, because i have to create cd's for
windows xp retail w/out drivers
windows xp pro w/out drivers
windows xp OEM w/out drivers,
& windows 2000 pro w/out driverpacks (but this don't get updated that much as not needed that much, usually for old laptops with 200MB memory or less)
so 6 cd's really i need to create, would be nice to of got that down to 3, but like i said i'm learning the network option now, which will also allow me to install off a hard drive if i do need to be called out, (thanks to the help from this post http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=2502)
still, having this multi cd version could be useful (even PXE Booting is not 100% to work, because of some bad PXE firmware's around) and would cut down on cost, and of course help out global warming hehehe
i think the hard thing would be, the bootsector on the CD, as windows cd use there own coustomized boot block which then calls for the relevent script (just a theory, not to sure if this is right)
Last edited by Registered (2008-04-02 07:57:13)
