problem installing tinyxp

[danny_galaga]

revision 09

Looked like it was going swimmingly, until i got this:

Error:

installation failed:D:\ROOT\0001\I386\asms

Error message: Incorrect function

Fatal error:

one of the components that Windows needs to continue setup could not be installed

so what do I do now?

[WhereEaglesDare]

at what point did you get this message?  Before the driver installs?  I have found with TinyXP09 that sometimes you just have to try two or three times and it will work... I have used that revision a lot, put it on over a dozen PCs and about half the time it wont work the first time.

Try making a fresh disk, there is alot of compression so if the image is perfect it wont work...

[danny_galaga]

 It installed all the drivers n stuff at the beginning, then went to some extracty things. Then to the same screen you see with the original xp. You know, the one with the 5 points of installing. I get the error message at point number 3- Preparing installation.

[newmanfamilyvlogs]

I've seen essentially the same message several times on various installations of XP, usually the cause is either a disk that hasn't burned right, or a failing hard drive.

[abispac]

I've seen essentially the same message several times on various installations of XP, usually the cause is either a disk that hasn't burned right, or a failing hard drive.

yeap , reburn the iso at alow speed.

[danny_galaga]

Ok, just tried a new disk. the first disk was burnt at 4X. The new one at 16X. Neither work. The new one gives me a slightly different error is all. 0005 instead of 0001 

I'm wondering if it needs to be freshly partitioned, like it says somewhere. My hard drive had XP on it, but I have a new motherboard. How do I partition it in this case? The only time I've partitioned something was with Ubuntu, which has a partitioning thingo built in...

[Raitsa]

1. To avoid any mistakes, burn at the slowest speed possible.
2. To have a 100% fresh PC, I always format the whole drive when installing TinyXP or Tiny7 rev01.

Have installed these OSīs to mine & friendīs PCīs about 30 times, never had any probs.

[newmanfamilyvlogs]

I would think that as long as the cd passes a "verification" at the end of burning, it's probably not the source of the error. Look for that option in your burning software. Might also be called "validate", or something like that.

As for partitioning the harddrive, obviously doing a full wipe is the safest way to ensure that's not the problem. There should be options to delete/recreate partitions from within the dos portion of the install, when you select what partition to install to. I believe it should prompt you to hit "L" to delete a partition. Just read the entire screen; it's there somewhere.

[WhereEaglesDare]

Ok, just tried a new disk. the first disk was burnt at 4X. The new one at 16X. Neither work. The new one gives me a slightly different error is all. 0005 instead of 0001 

I'm wondering if it needs to be freshly partitioned, like it says somewhere. My hard drive had XP on it, but I have a new motherboard. How do I partition it in this case? The only time I've partitioned something was with Ubuntu, which has a partitioning thingo built in...

You can partitioninside Tiny XP, its one of teh first things you do, delete all partitions til all  it says is unpartitioned space, then make one big partition.

[danny_galaga]

yeah, I was misinterpreting that. I read the bit that said 'delete partition'. but it didn't occur to me that means you can make a new partition!

Anyway, I reformatted and still the same problem. The problem is as good as solved though. I've used the enticement of a slab of beer on the aussie arcade forum for someone to come over and do it for me 

[WhereEaglesDare]

yeah, I was misinterpreting that. I read the bit that said 'delete partition'. but it didn't occur to me that means you can make a new partition!

Anyway, I reformatted and still the same problem. The problem is as good as solved though. I've used the enticement of a slab of beer on the aussie arcade forum for someone to come over and do it for me 

Its amazing what beer can do

[danny_galaga]

I had an epiphany. Maybe the thought of paying for beer made me try harder  Turned out the epiphany was wrong, but i managed to make it work regardless! What I thought was maybe it needed the driver CD the motherboard came with. After all, the motherboard is 2010, and xp is about 10 years old. well, that didn't seem to help, so then what I thought I'd do is throw in my original XP disk when it came up with the error, thinking whatever was missing might be on that disk, since it's the genuine article. THAT didn't work either, so in an act of desperation I just clicked CANCEL when the message came up 'you need blah blah from xp sp3' then it came up with a NEW error. At this point I thought I'd put back the tinyxp disk, and clicked CANCEL again. Then I just kept clicking CANCEL for each error that popped up. I was starting to think that it would be hopeless because there could be thousands of errors, and what would be left? but I think I spent less than a minute clicking CANCEL.

And now my MAME cab has tinxp installed! Yay! Who knows whats missing but as long as MAME works on it, which it does, I'm happy

[WhereEaglesDare]

weird

[danny_galaga]

What's weirder, and more frustrating, is I can't for the life of me get sound out of it 

[WhereEaglesDare]

drivers?

[newmanfamilyvlogs]

What motherboard is it?