Vista - Vista SP1 Slipstream Installation DVD

Hi Allan,

I do not know of a way to do it. I would not think that it would be a good idea though considering that IE is a very integrated component of Vista. It is even tied in with Windows Explorer through the address bar.

Sorry,

Shawn

Shawn

Just finished loading a slipstreamed dvd of vistaX64 with vLite.
Clean install on spare hdd.
Cut out anything to do with IE7 with vLite.

Loaded FireFox V3 rc1.

Havn't seen reference to IE yet.

Any suggestions to where or what might invoke it?

allan

I think IE stuff is hooked of explorer, so to remove it??????
Explorer has to be load,,,, maybe not the IE hooks?

I am keeping my fingers crossed

Allan,

I'm glad to hear that you were able to remove IE7 with vLite. Hopefully it will work the Default Programs and use FireFox without any problems for you.

Shawn

I've tried to slipstream SP1 with my Medion Recovery Disc (Vista Home Premium came on the PC) using vLite and I thought the following observations could be useful:

a) At step 5, I was getting a repeated BSOD and forced reboot until I discovered that it was caused by a program called mfx.exe (Magic Folders); uninstalling it solved the problem.
b) Then, later in step 5, I found that in order to progress I had to select the top folder WITHIN the Vista disc-copy folder on the desktop (NOT the Vista folder itself) - called in my case MEDHOPRENU.
c) All then progressed as stated above until step 12, when it passed through the Preparing and Extracting phases, but after about half an hour in the Integrating phase, it Aborted (without further information) - then 'Failed - no changes made'.

SHOULD I be able to succeed with this approach - or is the OEM disc (which I have successfully used to undertake a Repair Install, despite reservations expressed in these tutorials!) inadequate as a basis?

Hi John,

Usually a OEM Recovery DVD will not work as far as a I know with this method. If it was a Express OEM DVD, which you can use to do a Repair Install, then it might be able to work.

It sounds like you may have had some interference from something as well. You should have been able to select the Vista folder from step 5 and proceed considering the statement above.

Shawn

Well, persistence paid off and the second attempt proved successful! The Medion Recovery Disc seems to be an adequate basis both for Slipstreaming and Repair Install. Again, I had to use the folder WITHIN the copied Vista folder as the basis for vLite.

One small further point - in step 22, the Finish button did not appear, but Exit seemed to have the same function.

Many thanks for your really excellent tutorial.

John

John,

I'm glad to hear that you got it to work for you. Thank you for sharing your results. I'm going to keep a list of the differences with the OEM DVD's to try make notes in the instructions for them.

Shawn

First, my hats off to you brink for all those awesome articles.

Now, I am getting a weird error message at step 12 (SP integration step):
CabLib Extract ERROR while extracting files from cabinet archive:
Corrupt cabinet

Any thoughts?

NOTE: I've had the antivirus active protection disabled

Hi Korayem,

Welcome to Vista Forums.

It sounds like there was a problem using the copy of the Vista DVD files. Try recopying them and try making the slipstream DVD again.

You might also post this error in the vLite program forum for more of a specific solution hopefully.

vLite - MSFN Forums

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Fine tutorial thank you.
I'm new to this forum. I have a doubt. can any one help me please?
Can i add my favorite software to vista bootable dvd like Anti virus, Music Players.
My software (Anti virus, Player) should be installed automatically After installing the vista. is this possible? If so How to do that.
Waiting for a solution.
Thank you.