All Narfed Up photography and words by Bryan Villarin

Update: I think I figured out that if I try to install to an NTFS partition, my unattended install won’t go through - I need to use the FAT filesystem. Why? Because I thought I read it somewhere in the nLite forums. I don’t really utilize the NTFS anyways, and I’m 99% sure I was using FAT32 when I first reviewed nLite. In any case, I’ve just installed the latest drivers and hotfixes since SP2. Without anything else installed, my PF Usage is steady around 101 MB, and my Windows partition is taking up 806 MB of space (paging file is on another partition). In a little bit, I should be back in full effect on my main desktop. I’ll post how things are running when I finish up.

I hid the initial entry below to save space.

I’m not sure which components I removed when I used nLite, but apparently whatever I did affected print spooler on some print jobs via CutePDF Writer, where processor usage would increase drastically and basically freeze my system in its tracks. So, I’m going to try again. Latest version is 0.99.1 beta 2. Probably won’t be around until tomorrow night, when everything on my system is up again. I know I have a laptop, but I have some pressing things to do in the morning.

Update: 0.99.1 beta 2 kinda choked it. I made two ISO setups with nLite. The first was trying to strip Windows XP SP2 with the things I was sure I wouldn’t need, in addition to making sure it was unattended. The second was simply setup to be an unattended install. However, neither didn’t go the way I wanted. The first one that went through the whole install didn’t end up being unattended at all, and the second one got to a blue screen before even starting up the install process. Now, I just felt compelled to try out an older version of Knoppix (3.3). It was nifty that my video, mouse, keyboard, and sound all basically worked. My Epson C84 doesn’t though. In any case, I’ll be restoring a previous Windows image right to get another shot at a clean install.