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Incidentally an error 1601 means this: ERROR_INSTALL_SERVICE_ FAILURE 1601 The Windows Installer service could not be accessed. Contact your support personnel to verify that the Windows Installer service is properly registered. Doesn't help me

I'm using the Windows 2003 Server OPK CD to install Windows to target machines. I've run the setup manager to generate WINBOM files and wrote it to floppy. I boot off the OPK CD and the WINBOM is read off the floppy and everything works great. Now, I need to incorporate a preinstall of Microsoft Storage Server. I have the OPK for this, but it's unclear to me how to get this to install during the GUI setup phase of Windows 2003 automatically. I copied the CD to my OPKTOOLS directory here: Directory of C:\OPKTools\cfgsets\storage server msi test\$OEM$\$1\stage The root of the CD would be the "stage" directory. Now I'm just trying to get the .MSI file to run during unattended setup. (I'll deal with an unattended textbased install of this after I know I can at least get it running). The files copy fine over to the target PC during textmode install, but the MSI errors with the following error (from WINBOM.LOG) Found Preinstall Section 'AppPreMSI01.Stage' for application 'Storage Server' Initiating MSI Attach of the 'Storage Server' application. ERROR: MSI failed with exit code:[1601] while attempting to attach the 'Storage Server' application. ERROR: Failed to Stage the 'Storage Server' application. My WINBOM.INI file contains this: [AppPreMSI01.Attach] InstallType=Attach StagePath=c:\stage SetupFile=SaSetup30.msi CmdLine= [AppPreMSI01.Detach] InstallType=Detach StagePath=c:\stage [AppPreMSI01.Stage] InstallType=Stage StagePath=c:\stage SourcePath=D: SetupFile=SaSetup30.msi [OemRunOnce] "Storage Server",AppPreMSI01.Stage,MSI Help PLEASE!!!!

ok again glad i'm helping myself out here.... i THINK what i need to do is copy the CD to this directory? C:\OPKTools\cfgsets\storage server msi test\$OEM$\$1\stage then create the system config floppy and use that floppy during the factory -winpe configuration?

heres the staging info from winbom.ini [AppPreMSI01.Attach] InstallType=Attach StagePath=c:\stage SetupFile=SaSetup30.msi CmdLine= [AppPreMSI01.Detach] InstallType=Detach StagePath=c:\stage [AppPreMSI01.Stage] InstallType=Stage StagePath=c:\stage SourcePath=D: SetupFile=SaSetup30.msi [OemRunOnce] "Storage Server",AppPreMSI01.Stage,MSI

ok, i think i have it, you need an MSI file to do it, no problem there. now, where do i stick these files in the config set or OPK tree that WinPE uses so they get copied down to the target computer?

ok im looking at unattended install of applications in the OPK help guide. it says i need to "stage" the application for install, but I can't find where it explains how to do this.

OK, I know how to install storage server unattended on a windows 2003 server that's already running, but I need to figure out how to integrate it into the WinPE CD so that WinPE lays down everything and installs this during factory mode automatically. Any hints or resources to look at?

additional note that shouldn't matter. the CD im using to install the OS to the system is a 2003 server OPK cd (modified to work with an adaptec u320 scsi controller configured for host raid) and im using the factory -winpe mode

I'm following the instructions from http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/installhotfixes.htm to slipstream hotfixes into my unattended install. however the step for modifying dosnet.inf has me confused. i hadn't noticed until now, but it doesn't appear this file exists. is there an alternate file, or do i just create my own for adding the [OptionalSrcDirs] Update thanks!

how can you tell the difference between a type 1 and 2 hotfix? the images are broken on this page: http://www.msfn.org/unattended/xp/installhotfixes.htm