TUTO: slipstream MUI language pack in installation DVD

[shadow_shd]

*** UPDATE 28th july 2009 ***
BubuXP has made major changes to my tutorial, updating it to RTM release
of Win 7.
Many thanks to you BubuXP, as I'm on vacation and didn't want to do it !!

Click here to go to BubuXP's up-to-date tutorial !

*** UPDATE 31st may 2009 ***
- Updated GImageX version (now 2.0.16 Beta).
- Added integration of certain lp.cab files in the DVD directory (see below),
to have language selection when setup.exe is launched from Windows.
- Integration of a 7137 lp.cab into a 7137 ISO works without any problem
on a 7127 installation.

It seems some people are confronted with problems and errors with x86
builds of Win 7. As I don't use x86 but x64, I'll test my tutorial with a x86
build of 7.
I will post my results as soon as I've done it.

*** UPDATE 1st may 2009 ***

Since the 7100 build and some languages packs are "available", I find an
information that might be worth to know.

I tried to integrate the 7100 french LP into the 7100 iso, and this on my
7077 build installation. Doing so is useless, as DISM.EXE v7077 reports an
error when trying to integrate the LP in the 7100 Wim image file.

So, if you want to integrate a 7100 LP in a 7100 build iso, by following my
tutorial, you have to do it on an existing 7100 installation of 7 (I've done it
on my Acer notebook with success), with version 7100 of DISM.EXE.

Hi,

There's a little tutorial I've done for all of you interested in integrate a MUI language pack in a Windows 7 7077 EN-US installation DVD.

I've just done it for my 7077 x64 installation with french language pack.

USUAL WARNING: I take NO responsability if you loose data by following my tutorial. If you're playing with a beta version of an OS, you know what you're doing.

I) What is needed :

• A Windows 7 RTM installation DVD or iso (I think you already got it);
• A language pack (lp.cab). You can find some on My Digital Life website.
• GImagex, ImageX and other needed files, all in an archive. Depending on your actual OS architecture, you can download the 7Work_x86.7z or the 7Work_x64.7z versions;
• WinRAR or 7zip or other archiver to extract some files.
• About 15 gb free HDD space.

II) Preparation :

• First make a folder somewhere on your hard drive. I suggest making a short named one, it will make things easier. So let's make a new folder, say "F:\7Work" (Naturally, replace F: with your own drive letter).
• In this "7Work" folder, make 3 new sub folders : "DVD", "WIM" and "LP".
• Unzip the 7Work_xXX.7z file in the "F:\7Work" folder and right click on wimfltr.inf and choose "Install".
• Mount or burn or extract with an archiver your Win7 iso and copy all files and folders in the "F:\7Work\DVD" folder.
• Copy your "lp.cab" from your language pack to "F:\7Work\LP".
• Using an archiver, extract folders "setup" and "sources" from "lp.cab" to "F:\7Work\LP".
• If you have a local pack too, copy the "Windows-LocalPack-XX-Package.cab" file in "F:\7Work\LP"

We must have :
F:\7Work
╠═══ [DVD] --> with all folders and files from the W7 install DVD.
╠═══ [LP] --> with your lp.cab and eventually Windows-LocalPack-XX-Package.cab.
║. . . . ╠═══ [setup]
║. . . . ╚═══ [sources]
╠═══ [WIM] --> will contain the expanded files from "install.wim"
╠═══ gimagex.exe
╠═══ gimagex.chm
╠═══ imagex.exe
╠═══ intlcfg.exe
╠═══ oscdimg.exe
╠═══ vsp1cln.exe
╠═══ wimfltr.inf --> don't forget to install this
╠═══ wimfltr.sys
╚═══ wimgapi.dll

We now have all things necessary to modify our Win7 DVD.

III) The hardest things (please read carefully !!) part One - Integrating our language pack to the "Install.wim":

• Execute GImageX.exe,
• Click on the "Mount" tab,
• In the "Mount point" field, enter "F:\7Work\WIM", or just click "Browse..." and browse to your WIM folder,
• In the "Source" field, enter "F:\7Work\DVD\sources\install.wim", or just browse to the "sources" folder and select "install.wim" file,
• Set "Image" value to 5 (if Win7 x86) or 4 (if Win7 x64) (this number is the version of Windows7 we will modify: 1=Starter; 2=HomeBasic; 3=HomePremium; 4=Professional-x86 or Ultimate-x64; 5=Ultimate-x86. You can clic on the "Select..." button on the right to choice the right version without doubts),
• Click on the "Read and write" checkbox to activate it,
• Finally click on "Mount". This may take a while depending on your configuration, as this expands all files contained in the "install.wim" to the "WIM" folder we've created. Just let GImageX do the thing and wait.
• Once it's done, click "Close". You must leave GImageX opened.

You should have this :


Next step: integrate the language pack.
- Open a command prompt as administrator, CD to "F:\7Work" and type exactly this:

dism /Image:F:\7Work\WIM /Add-Package /PackagePath:F:\7Work\LP\lp.cab

DISM.exe is part of Windows and is in "C:\Windows\system32" (and if x64, in "C:\Windows\SysWOW64").
If you're working on XP (don't know if Vista has DISM), you have to copy (not move) from "F:\7Work\WIM\Windows\System32" (or SysWOW64) the files "wdscore.dll", "dism.exe" and all the files in "Dism" subfolder to "F:\7Work".

Wait as the process is relatively long. You should see this:

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 6.1.7600.16385

Image Version: 6.1.7600.16385
Processing 1 of 1 - Adding package Microsoft-Windows-Client-LanguagePack-Package
~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~fr-FR~6.1.7600.16385
[==========================100.0%==========================]
The operation completed successfully.

F:\7Work>

- If you have the local pack, it's time to integrate it (if you are modifying the Starter Edition image, you can skip this):

dism /Image:F:\7Work\WIM /Add-Package /PackagePath:F:\7Work\LP\Windows-LocalPack-FR-Package.cab

replace the "FR" in the file name with your language code.
You should have this:

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 6.1.7600.16385

Image Version: 6.1.7600.16385
Processing 1 of 1 - Adding package Microsoft-Windows-LocalPack-FR-Package~31bf38
56ad364e35~amd64~fr-FR~6.1.7600.16385
[==========================100.0%==========================]
The operation completed successfully.

F:\7Work>

Next step: making our language the default language and generate new lang.ini.
- Come back in your command prompt, and type exactly this:

intlcfg -genlangini -dist:F:\7Work\DVD -image:F:\7Work\WIM -defaultlang:fr-FR -all:fr-FR

Naturally, replace "fr-FR" with your language code, i.e. "de-DE".
Enter Y to overwrite the existing "lang.ini" file.
You should have something like this:

Input locale has been set to: fr-FR
System locale has been set to: fr-FR
User locale has been set to: fr-FR
UI language has been set to: fr-FR

Are you sure you want to overwrite the existing Lang.ini file? (Y/N): Y

A new Lang.ini file has been generated

The default language in Lang.ini file has been updated to: fr-FR

F:\7Work>

Finally, we must save our modified "install.wim" file.
- Go back to GImageX,
- Click on the "Commit Changes" checkbox (IMPORTANT ! If you don't check "Commit Changes", the modifications WON'T BE SAVED !!),
- Click once on the line "R/W F:\7Work\WIM F:\7Work\DVD\sources\install.wim 5" so the line turn blue,
- Finally click on the "Unmount" button. Wait until the "install.wim" is saved (may take some time) and unmounted. Files & folders in the "WIM" folder are deleted too.
- If you want a DVD with every Windows7 version in your language, you must repeat the III point above with each image value when mounting with GImageX (each image value correspond to a Win7 version, as written before) and at the end rename or edit the file "ei.cfg" in "F:\7Work\DVD\sources" to let the user choose the Windows7 version during setup (Ultimate version will automatically install if ei.cfg is not modified).
- Last step to copy some languages files:

mkdir DVD\sources\fr-FR
mkdir DVD\sources\license\fr-FR
xcopy LP\setup\sources\fr-FR\* DVD\sources\fr-FR\ /cheriky
xcopy LP\sources\license\fr-FR\* DVD\sources\license\fr-FR\ /cheriky

always replace "fr-FR" with your language code.



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Now that we have a "install.wim" file with our language pack, we're going to modify the "boot.wim" file to have it use our language during setup.

I) Preparation :
Ensure you still have "setup" and "sources" folders from your LP.cab. If not, extract them with WinRAR, in your "F:\7Work\LP\" directory.

II) Let's do it ! (again, read carefully !)

• Launch again/go back in GImageX,
• Click on the "Mount" tab,
• In the "Mount Point" field, enter "F:\7Work\WIM" or just browse to it,
• In the "Source" field, enter "F:\7Work\DVD\sources\boot.wim" or browse to it,
• Set "Image" value to 2 (1=Microsoft Windows PE: no need to modify; 2=Microsoft Windows Setup: our baby),
• Click on the "Read and write" checkbox so it's activated,
• Click on the "Mount" button (should take a lot shorter time than the "install.wim" file !),
• Click on the "Close" button when image is mounted.

Next step:
Open a command prompt as administrator, and CD to "F:\7Work".
Type the following:

xcopy DVD\sources\lang.ini WIM\sources\ /cheryki
mkdir WIM\sources\fr-FR
xcopy LP\setup\sources\fr-FR\*.* WIM\sources\fr-FR /cheryki
xcopy LP\sources\license\*.* WIM\sources\license /cheryki

Replace "fr-FR" with your language code.

Optional steps: if you want to skip the language selection screen when setup starts and use only your native language, do the following to remove en-US:
- open with a text editor the lang.ini located in F:\7Work\WIM\sources and remove the en-US entry. It should looks like this:

[Available UI Languages]
fr-FR = 3

[Fallback Languages]
fr-FR = fr-FR

Always replace "fr-FR" with your language code.

- run the following from the command line prompt:

rmdir /s /q F:\7Work\WIM\sources\en-US
rmdir /s /q F:\7Work\WIM\sources\License\en-US

don't replace en-US, as it's the language we are removing.

- Finally, go back in GImageX,

• Don't forget to click on the "Commit Changes" checkbox, else your changes won't be saved,
• Click once on the "R/W F:\7Work\WIM F:\7Work\DVD\sources\boot.wim 2" so the line turn blue,
• Click on the "Unmount" button.

Our new "boot.wim" file is created and all files & folders in the WIM folder are deleted.


Now we can make the ISO image of our Windows 7 DVD.
At the command from the prompt:

oscdimg.exe -h -u2 -m -bF:\7Work\DVD\boot\etfsboot.com -lWindows7DVD F:\7Work\DVD F:\Windows7.iso

and the final Windows7.iso file will appear on F:\

Burn this new ISO to a DVD-R(W), or apply this tutorial to install Vista from a USB flash drive.[/QUOTE]

[NIPSEN]

Thanks for the info, bon boulot mec ;-)

[azizchimie]

Nice job .... Thank you

[HSChronic]

awesome work nice post!!

[gollum]

Thank you so much. This is really helpfull as i tried to integrate the LP already with vLite and realised that its not doing the Job. It always aborts with the Message "requiered files missing". i did not manage to figure out which files are missing and what to do about it. So thank you again...

[shadow_shd]

I spend 2 days googling infos and testing by myself, I found some infos on a german forum, and most and usable infos on Microsoft Technet website.

I thought my results could interest some people, and I'm pleased to see so. Thanks !

** Si des gens sont interessés pour que je traduise en frenchie, faites-le moi savoir ;-)**

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[who]

Peut être poster l'iso avec le pack FR intégré?

[nicojac]

Peut être poster l'iso avec le pack FR intégré?

Ca pourrait être sympa, j'ai du mal à tout comprendre.

@+ Nico

[who]

Et moi je n'ai pas assez d'espace disque lol

[shadow_shd]

OK je vais voir par quel moyen je peux mettre en partage.

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