Post subject: Longhorn Packet v1.21 Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 8:11 pm
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Tired of Debug Assertion errors, bootscreen hanging in some Longhorn builds, and other problems during the installing? Then this package is for you. Longhorn Packet solves really MANY problems in the setup.
How to use it: 1. Open your "bad" Longhorn ISO in WinRAR (recommended), 7-Zip, or any other archiving program. 2. Unpack it to some folder, like C:\BrokenHorn. 3. Open Longhorn Packet v1.0 in UltraISO (recommended), PowerISO, or any other ISO editing program. 4. Place C:\BrokenHorn or other folder's contents into UNBOOT folder in the Packet, so setup will be available in X:\UNBOOT\SETUP.EXE (X: stands for your CD/DVD-ROM drive, it may vary, depending on your system). 5. Save the ISO as a new file. 6. Now, boot it up and have fun - all problems are solved!
Version 1.1 introduces Easy Mode (also fixes some bugs). Easy Mode helps you install Longhorn without using any 3rd party partitioning utilities, just boot and go. This also works for some faulty builds like 4011. When using it, it will delete ALL DATA from the hard drive, if there is any, and will only work correctly if there is only 1 hard drive installed. This is perfect for Virtual Machines.
Post subject: Re: Longhorn Packet v1.0 Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 8:26 pm
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Yes, you can use 7-Zip if you want, actually. I have made this Packet long ago, it even was on National Russian Torrent Tracker, but torrent got died, and it went public. The package is resurrected again.
Post subject: Re: Longhorn Packet v1.0 Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 8:28 pm
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Pro-tip:
If you have already an working bootable longhorn CD (like 4011). Just skip the download and dump the contents of the ''bad'' CD into a working one (in a folder of your choice).
Saves you a lot of time downloading.
It may or not may be available on X: But it will be on D: or E: (depending which drive-letter the CD-Drive has been given).
Post subject: Re: Longhorn Packet v1.0 Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 8:31 pm
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Rob Jansen wrote:
Pro-tip:
If you have already an working bootable longhorn CD (like 4011). Just skip the download and dump the contents of the ''bad'' CD into a working one (in a folder of your choice).
Saves you a lot of time downloading.
It may or not may be available on X: But it will be on D: or E: (depending which drive-letter the CD-Drive has been given).
4011 has Debug Assertion Failed errors, and also it's badly compiled PE. Sure you can try, but that is universal, and I tweaked it to work slightly.
Also, in X: I mean the CD/DVD-ROM drive available to user.
Post subject: Re: Longhorn Packet v1.0 Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 8:52 pm
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I take back the 4011 I was thinking of that (that the buggiest PE ever), I mean 4008 (that is the better one).
Also, the X drive in the drive that contains the RAM disk, if you use an .wim to boot (boot.wim), the contents is in the X: drive, the other files will be in D: or E:
And I am not keen (and many others also) on an ''custom'' Windows PE with tools I/We never use while the standard PE image works fine in 4008. No hassle.
Also the only Build that is uninstallable from the PE (booting from disc, is 4011). The others work fine. Some do not work in VMware, but they work in VPC or Virtualbox.
Post subject: Re: Longhorn Packet v1.0 Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 7:20 am
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shiztr wrote:
Will this fix build 4039 for vmware? Thanks for the packet.
Yes, it works for ALL Longhorn builds in x86 available. It is theoretically possible to place working build in the Packet, and it will still work. So yeah...
Post subject: Re: Longhorn Packet v1.0 Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 10:36 am
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This pack reminds me an installation of the longhorn build 4093. Base of that installation is 4033's WinPE. In your pack you must rename "SETUP.EXE" to "SETUP.EXE." to successfully run the installation.
Post subject: Re: Longhorn Packet v1.0 Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 5:10 pm
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Kobi wrote:
This pack reminds me an installation of the longhorn build 4093. Base of that installation is 4033's WinPE. In your pack you must rename "SETUP.EXE" to "SETUP.EXE." to successfully run the installation.
I did already try my current version without any changes, and it worked. I don't need to change anything, I think.
Post subject: Re: Longhorn Packet v1.0 Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 10:06 pm
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Pwned wrote:
Kobi wrote:
This pack reminds me an installation of the longhorn build 4093. Base of that installation is 4033's WinPE. In your pack you must rename "SETUP.EXE" to "SETUP.EXE." to successfully run the installation.
I did already try my current version without any changes, and it worked. I don't need to change anything, I think.
I used that version what you had posted. I have tried it on build 4028 and I had to rename that file ...
Post subject: Re: Longhorn Packet v1.0 Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 7:56 pm
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thanks for this gonna give it a go and see if it fixes my laptops problems with 4074, it gets to boot screen , then boots , then boots , then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots and i finally realise that the startup screen is never going away
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Post subject: Re: Longhorn Packet v1.0 Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:32 am
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jman6495 wrote:
thanks for this gonna give it a go and see if it fixes my laptops problems with 4074, it gets to boot screen , then boots , then boots , then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots, then boots and i finally realise that the startup screen is never going away
I had the same problem with build less than 4053, but somehow 4066,4074,4093 had worked on my laptop.
I downloaded this ISO and burned it, but had bad RAM problems at first. Once I got it to go beyond the second vertical tick on the bottom, I was very happy with this Longhorn Preinstallation Environment!
It would even let me CTRL-C out of it at the end, and let me CHDIR, DIR, etc. and run some programs on C:
Question: How do I put Longhorn files in \UNBOOT\ ? Should I add the entire Longhorn CD structure there ? I.E. the setup.exe from the CD Root, and the install subdir, or do I put the setup.exe from the install dir and the other files and install.wim directly into \UNBOOT\ ? I suspect the second, but please clearify this for me. Again, thanks! Boots great!
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Post subject: Re: Longhorn Packet v1.0 Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 5:30 am
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Pwned wrote:
Yes, entire. For example, Longhorn 4088 (which has broken mouse driver during installation). 4088 CD:\ --|setup.exe --|autorun.inf... etc.
Put all this into Longhorn Packet: Longhorn Packet:\UNBOOT\ --|setup.exe --|autorun.inf... etc.
Don't touch the root of the Longhorn Packet ISO.
@Kobi, thanks for the link! Haven't visited the topic for a while.
Sry for the topic bump, but I did this with Longhorn 4042, but setup keeps telling me that setup.exe could not be found. When I look in MagicISO, its all there, I'm going to retry with Winrar and see if that works any better, I'll report back.
EDIT: No good, still gives me the error, is there a fix for this?
SOLVED: Found it is a fault with MagicISO. I would recommend a switch to UltraISO!!!! (thx to PWNd on his recommendation) UltraISO packed the ISO correctly, if you have problems using MagicISO, then switch the UltraISO!!!
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