That is a good suggestion, but I've run into problems where if you follow the directions to the letter, you have a 50/50 chance of the CD not working. If you use WinISO to modify your ISO image of your original Bootable Windows 2000 Server CD, it will not fail. I picked the directions from the site you mentioned, where it states what files need to be in the CD folder structure. Chris -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Witt, Mike Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 8:39 AM To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [THIN] Re: Bootable CD OS install. I don't have much info for you regarding use with smartstart, but here is a really good site for creating slipstreamed Windows CD's, perhaps it has a trick that might help. http://www.bink.nu/Bootcd/ -----Original Message----- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:EZiots@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 10:10 AM To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [THIN] Bootable CD OS install. Folks, I am attempting the following. TO make a bootable CD-ROm with SP2 slipstreamed, and all hotfixes needed. At my PC at home this work flawlessly ( with help of unattend.txt renamed to winnt.sif and put in I386 directory on the Bootable Cd-ROM. Also I put all the hotfixes in the $OEM$ folder and created a cmdlines.txt with all the commands to install the hotfixes. When I use the Smart Start 5.50 CD ( yes tried more than 1 of these) with assisted method of installation, I get read errors trying to read the CD-ROm and copy some .cls, and rmi files from the CD. I tried 2 different servers, same issue. Tried 2 different CD-ROMS same issue. Has anyone successfully done this. I am soo close I can taste it. It would defintely cut my installation time for a server and associated programs to about 30 mins, which means I could rool out about 20 servers a day or 100 per week with this simple CD. I have all the documentation needed, just need to figure out the darn problem with Smart-Start and miss reading files. Any assistance on this would be MUCH appreciated. EZ *********************************************** This Weeks Sponsor: 99point9.com The 99Point9.com Online Tech Support Helpdesk is the one-stop solution for all your server-based computing needs. http://www.99point9.com ************************************************ For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link. http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm *********************************************** This Weeks Sponsor: 99point9.com The 99Point9.com Online Tech Support Helpdesk is the one-stop solution for all your server-based computing needs. http://www.99point9.com ************************************************ For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link. http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm *********************************************** This Weeks Sponsor: 99point9.com The 99Point9.com Online Tech Support Helpdesk is the one-stop solution for all your server-based computing needs. http://www.99point9.com ************************************************ For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link. http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm