vampyr07au

ok cool thanks

thanks for that but maybe my question wasnt clear enough .... what i actually want to know if i can do is have the option to choose what is installed (windows post installer style i guess you could say) because i don't believe that WPI can make use of the .WA addons and it may be difficult to chaneg the WA addons to WPI format.

ah ok ... thanks ... sounds a little too complicated for me lol ... i'll just not unattend those few specific settings and do it that way

Can multiple versions of the exact same operating system be created on a single AIO disc that use different unattended file to install so that it installs with different computer name and customised logos and boot screens etc?

The title probably doesnt do the question justice because I couldnt think of the best way to phrase it. What I want to know is whether or not specific .WA addons can be chosen during an install process rather than ALL addons being installed silently. (process similar to windows post installer) I am making my disk to suit several diffferent machines I have and not all of them require ALL of my addons.

cheers guys thanks for the help will post back after i have tried it

so I need to take ownership first ? and i need to edit the files in both wims? the help file does not say anything about ahving to take ownership ... it says to do this: imagex /mountrw d:\imaging\data.wim 2 c:\mounted_images which will then give you read/write access to the files ... which to me says that i can change the files and save them over again inside the wim (thats what write access is)

i don't understand what's going on .... I have mounted the image using imagex as per the instructions that come in the help file for WAIK ... it's mounted with read/write capabilities ... yet I cannot replace a file in the mounted folder with my edited file ... the help file says that i can mount it with read/write permissions and then i can copy and replace existing files and then i unmount the image after appending the changes

thanks ... so after that do i just save the wim again ? i have been using w7toolkit to mount the wim so far ... i found the files .... just not sure how i'm supposed to keep the changed files .... i assume that i would copy n paste the edited files into the mounted folder and then save the wim ?

yeah i can do it post install already ... its the pre-install environment that i wanted .... i have all the windows dvd copied to my hard drive ready to recreate my installer dvd however i can't find the imageres.dll that you are talking about.

i have created my own logon screens and boot screens however i cannot figure out how to integrate them into the windows installation disk. can anybody tell me how this is done ?