SLIPSTREAMED MSDN TESTS WORK.

This post is about MSDN DVD versions (with the subscriber DVD's as source) where I wanted to make the DVD boot WITH RAID SUPPORT.

the DVD has a choice of FIVE operating systems.
XP; XP home sp2, XP pro sp2, Media Center Edition 2005
SERVER; 2003 standard and enterprise.
This is about the 32 bit versions.

I slimmed down the source.
For this DVD, The ISO files are not needed. (so zap, or don't select these folders when you burn your compilation)

for all XP versions; Migration tools folders were not selected (or zapped.)

One needs only ONE support folder, so I moved the NTbackup folder one finds in Home into support, and called it HOME_NTbackup, then moved this support folder out of Home.

I decided to keep one VALUEADD folder.

I now find support and valueadd folders in the folder where the three XP versions are in..

another note, MCE2005, content of disc2 was moved to disc1
(this was done because MCE setup had a glitch while it asked for disc2. It was difficult to browse it to disc2, so I changed that layout. TIP, when you don't do that, and it asks for disc2, just change the 1 to 2 in the line, that works easier than browse.)

if you want unattended, put your WINNT.SIF files in the i386 folders

next came the real work.
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1; N-Lite; Nlite out unused languages and keyboards in all five windows versions.

2; RVM; Slipstreamed Hotfixes and addons to MCE2005 and the XP versions. I did NOT DO server.

3; DPs_Base; Slipstreamed all driverpacks to all five versions. (method 2, select all button. In short; I used defaults.)

Then Moved one of the five OEM folder to ROOT of DVD (they all have the same content, but after DPs_Base, the setup process wants the OEM folder in ROOT.)
Deleted the other four unneeded copies of the OEM folders.

The tricky part was to get the textmode drivers work on all five
Root of source has five small folders, what contain "floppy textmode" content

2ENL (enterprise 2003 dutch)
2SNL (standard 2003 dutch)
XHNL (home)
XMNL (MCE2005)
XPNL (pro)

COPY and OVERWRITE the most recently added/modified files from the respective i386 folders to their corresponding "floppy" folder.
Do not copy the driver.CAB.. (this was done while sorted on date in detail view...)

Then COPY and OVERWRITE the *.SY_ files from the i386 folders to the corresponding "floppy" folders. (sorted on TYPE in detail view)
That is done so textmode will work.
Over a hundred additional mass storage devices get added to avoid F6 at boot.

4; prepare for burn,
use isobuster to get the bootfiles off the source DVD
use nero to burn your compilation
use the bootfile from the MSDN DVD, no floppy emulation, sectors set to 4.
no multisession, disc at once. finalise.
and burn.

once you licked it, it sounds sooooo simple...