bj-kaiser

do you actually have a idea how fast usb ports on routers are? I can tell you, it's just enough for MP3 listening. High volume, like disk imaging, is a no-go if you don't have like 5 - 8 hours time for one image (30 or 40 GB data before compression).

Windows PE 2.0 comes in the WAIK (Windows Automated Installation Kit) or with BDD2007. search download.microsoft.com for it.

My recommendation would be to get a wireless router/ap that is known to support OpenWrt or one of the other alternative firmwares. Reason: at least OpenWrt has a Howto in their documentation for setting up QOS (quality of service). link: http://wiki.openwrt.org/MiniHowtos/QoSHowto QOS would allow you to give protocols like http, ftp and sip (voip telephony) a higher priority than p2p or simply other traffic. oh, and be sure to get a device that has at least one USB port, so you can use a usb flash drive to extend the routers memory capacity. You will surely find a way to use it, as most routers only come with like 4MB flash memory.

nice one.

why don't you put the options/properties from the 2nd command line to the others in the first? i think of something like this start /wait msiexec /qn /i %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Install\openofficeorg20.msi ALLUSERS=1 SELECT_WORD=1 SELECT_EXCEL=1 SELECT_POWERPOINT=1 ADDLOCAL=gm_Root,gm_r_Files_2,gm_r_Files_3,gm_r_Files_4,gm_r_Files_5,gm_r_Files_6,gm_r_Files_7,gm_r_ Files_8,gm_r_Files_9,gm_r_Fonts_OOo_Hidden,gm_p_Wrt_Bin,gm_p_Wrt_Help,gm_p_Calc_Bin,gm_p_Calc_Help,g m_p_Calc_Addins,gm_p_Impress_Bin,gm_p_Impress_Help,gm_o_Oo_English,gm_o_Winexplorerext This should all be on one commandline. However, I haven't tested it. So you might want to get something like VirtualBox or VMware to test-drive this. note: '/qn' sets the installer to be totally silent, '/qb' does show the progress-bar.

i meant the avast! setup.exe. I think i have to clarify myself here: For avast! you just have to make sure that the setup.exe and admin.ini are in the same directory. batch or GUI RunOnce should not be a problem there.

um, you didn't try replacing R: with A: in your autoexec, did you?

I think there are 3 options if it is not in the administrative installation wizard: Edit the msi directly (with Orca or a similar application) Use a "default user" registry setting Use GPOs

looks like the OpenOffice thing was discussed already in the past and it seems there are already solutions: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=58767 For avast! I think there is only this (if you don't use the paid version). Create a file admin.ini (has to be in the same directory as your setup file): [Admin] SilentInstallation=1 Serial=Insert Your Free Key Here

Are you sure that the executables you want to start are on the CD-ROM and not in the floppy image that's loaded to RAM from memdisk. You may want to try replacing R: with A:. BTW: Something about memdisk reliability. I actually use it together with pxelinux to do BIOS-Updates. The only problem I have ever faced was that the BIOS-Update floppy image refused to boot. But that could be solved adding the "raw" switch to memdisk's boot options (as is documented on the syslinux website), since it seems that the disk was created from XP, and the XP "DOS boot disk" is known to intentionally crash the system when using the default memdisk settings.

given you have sysprepped the image, there should be a sysprep folder on the system drive. To provide answers just put a "sysprep.inf" in there, similar to unattend.txt, but according to the documentation from MS there are some limitations/differences. For a first test you could just try to rename your unattend.txt to sysprep.inf and place it in the sysprep folder.

let me get this right, you have a Windows 2k/XP/2003 installation, prepared with sysprep, captured to a wim-file. And now you are trying to get the 2k/XP/2003 sysprep to use your unattended.xml as answer file, right? This can't work (or I have missed out a updated sysprep that can use the xml-file). You have to use the old unattend.txt/sysprep.inf file format. http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen...unatt_tools.asp

If I'm not mistaken the setup/sysprep itself interprets the answer file. So I think you have to use the "old" unattend.txt (INI-)format to specify answers for Win2k, XP and 2k3.

Hint: windows.iso

there is a startnet.cmd file in the Windows PE image (\Windows\System32\startnet.cmd). Just add your commands to it.

sorry, i have overseen that little, but very important detail. IIRC the SAMBA package (I use OpenWrt here) will use around 1 - 2 MB including it's dependencies. Since my router has 2 USB ports (Asus WL500Gd), I didn't stumble on that problem (as I plugged the USB HDD for the shared files in there) since I got more then enough storage for additional programs. Looks like the only way for you is the lmhost file. Sorry.

nice to see your problem solved itself. However I would want to add this idea for the next one searching for a similar solution: Since you are already running a Linux (probably 24x7) on your router, you could have installed the SAMBA package on it and have it set up as WINS server (and remember to configure it for listening on the internal network only). That way you would avoid having to edit the lmhost file. Instead you only have to add the IP of your router as WINS server.

you may want to read about Bacula or Amanda. Both are free software, but as in the other posts, you probably have to use scripting to shut down or start services before and after the backup process. The question is, in which environment do you want to use it? AFAIK both of them qualify as Enterprise network backup software and seem to be a bit hard in first time setup. (not to mention that Bacula's server is ATM only available for Linux/Solaris and the Amanda server part on Windows seems to use Cygwin)

diskpart /S scriptfile will execute the commands in the scriptfile. remember to add the "noerr" switch to the commands where necessary, otherwise diskpart will exit as soon as one command fails. so you could call the above command from a .cmd or .bat and in the next line start a unattended installation. Is that what you were looking for?

so what would be the problem with DokuWiki? You just set up a tiny webserver and php on your own machine and it works. I see no problem at all.

http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki DokuWiki uses plain-text files to store the articles. The advantage is that you don't need an additional SQL database system. All you need is a webserver, like IIS or Abyss Webserver X1 + PHP. Also there is a template to make DokuWiki look like Wikipedia.

I'm just wondering if it wouldn't be easier for the OP to net/pxe-boot a WinPE, map a share from a fileserver and start the setup from there instead of carrying around a USB-Stick. It's easier to handle for updates (you only have to update the installation share instead of X USB drives) and PXE boot is afaik a common and well-working feature today, while USB-drives still produce incompatibility issues now and then. However, if there are reasons for using a USB-drive, I don't want to sound like complaining about the OP using that.

Here is a simple script that lists all $NTUninstall folders in the editors console. To add a DirRemove should not be to hard, but I won't do it. $search = FileFindFirstFile (@WindowsDir & "\$ntuninstall*") While 1 $file = FileFindNextFile($search) If @error Then ExitLoop ConsoleWrite("File:" & $file & @CRLF) WEnd

Search the AutoIT help file for DirRemove and FileFind. I think the examples should be good enough to learn it. And please, use it on a test directory structure first. That will save you some headaches if anything goes wrong.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "DefaultDomainName"="ctsdomain" "DefaultUserName"="ct" "DefaultPassword"="ctspassword" "AutoAdminLogon"="1" That should work.