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I did see his installer but I couldn't see whether it could do what I need. I will check it out now. Thanks for the reply.

I (probably) need to deploy iTunes here at work, but I want some thing set during the installation. I don't care in what way it's done, but I need/want too. During a manual installation you can deselect to not have iTunes copy all your music to it's library directory, etc. I want this unattended. Now, I have looked through the registry but haven't found anything useful to this. The itunes.pref seems to be a xml file in 7.5? Anyways, can anyone help me with this? Btw, QuickTime installation is fine.

Would this help with doing a record on Runtime first, then Custom to get Windows Interfaces (ODBC) in? I know it makes two seperate .rsp files, but that should be no problem.

Hi, Bit late to reply, but I am at this stage my self. If you are using a recent version you should be able to use OUI (Oracle Univeral Installer) which sucks. It is Java based and uses a response file. You can either use the setup.exe found in the root of the CDROM, or the one in \install\win32\. The one in the root calls de one in \install\win32. Then use "setup.exe -record -destinationfile <full-path-name.rsp>" to record an installation. After that you have to edit the rsp file with simple test editor, and put stuff like the splash screen, summary screen etc to false so it won't show. Don't put everything on false until you know the installation works. After all this, which will take a while because OUI is crap-to-the-bone, use the following line: "setup.exe -responsefile <full-path-name.rsp> -silent". The -silent is to ensure any annoying questions like a port is displayed, even though you handled it in the rsp file. In my case, I have to install ADI 8something on a Oracle 9i client. This is completly impossible. The installer b0rks on several files during installation. So, I have install 8something client on an empty machine and install ADI. Then I need to de-install the client and make some kind of package from it with Wise. Sounds simple, but it's Oracle so it probably ain't gonna be easy... Anyways, I hope you can use this information somehow.

I don't get this... I recorded a nice installation with all the requirements for the normal runtime client, and also the Windows Interfaces for the ODBC stuff we need here. When I check the recorded .rsp file it's shows all the stuff I wanted in, including the port needed somewhere during the installation (default is 2030). But when I run the setup.exe with the recorded .rsp file, it shows the summary screen where it shows what it will install, and that's completly empty except for the Oracle client (installed per default). Anyone got any tips on this?

Will try that. Should in theory work fine then. Thanks! ATM I am working on a Oracle 9i client unattended installation. Man, that sucks! Getting there though....

mpl, How did you work out the NET8 configuration part? There is a netca.rsp which should handle everything, but it either isn't used or I got things wrong. The first thing to configure is the port (defaults to 2030) but I don't see a value of 2030 in netca.rsp. How have you done you silent installation? Did you use a custom .rsp with the individual packages defined for the client, excludig NET8 for example? Please let me know! [edit]I found out a nice other option to parse to setup.exe: setup.exe -record -destinationfile <path-to-filename.rsp> Seem to work quite nice, but has it's odds. Like you need to set everything to false on things that are shown.[/edit]

I use the "/S /v/qn" way directly on the installer downloaded from Apple. Also, I use the batch file mentioned on page two of this thread with some modifications of my self. The problem starts after the QTPlayerSession.xml is copied to the client PC. The only thing I have changed in the preferences is that the taskbar icon/program isn't started. But somehow it won't work on a client PC ie. the taskbar icon/program is still enabled. There is a line in that file that specifies the profile path. <string>C:\Documents and Settings\weustink\Bureaublad</string> Weustink is the account name I originally installed QuickTime under, but of course other users have different usernames/last names. I tried using <string>%userprofile%\Bureaublad</string> but that doesn't help either. Does anyone know what to do to correct this? BTW: "bureablad" means "desktop" in Dutch.

Well, it seems that what I want can only be done by the bootable CD. I am going to use GDISK from Symantec Ghost to make a 100% disk partition, FAT32 and let the formatting do on-the-fly. Won't be a problem, just hoped that it could be done more nicely. [edit]Well, gdisk is nice but DOS_ONLY.IMG from Alitirs which supports FAT32 is even nicer for this. I can use this boot flop to do what I want with gdisk in one job, instead of having two jobs. Case closed...[/edit]

Do you use a bootable CD/DVD to setup Windows, or use a network installation (maybe using a job from Altiris for example)? If it's a bootable CD/DVD I don't think it's possible. I think the boot.bin (or whatever it is called) is the floppy on thje CD/DVD and that one initiates what is executed. So, you would have to hack that to have it execute a batch file or so.

I got a problem here with setting up Windows XP Professional via a network installation. I have made a complete sysprep with Altiris Deployment Console, and everything works when the client PC has a FAT partition to put the setup files on. The problem here is that we want to put the new setup on all PC's, including our new PC line, with a NTFS partition. Only one partition exist, which is NTFS. I was hoping to use "LocalSourceOnCD=1" in [Data] in unattend.txt, but that won't do. My question now is, does anyone have experience with this and how did you solve it? It's kinda driving me nuts by now, after searching the internet on relevant information, but nothing seems to work for me.

I can confirm to the non-raid drivers being picked first. What I did was just remove the non-raid drivers and lines. @buletov, contacting Silicon Graphics (SGI) doesn't make much sence since they didn't do the chip. They make Visual Workstations/Servers and Supercomputers. You are referring to Silicon Image ;-)

I was wondering if anyone has succesfully installed X-Chat 2.x silently and keeping English text in the program. Using the /S option installs silently but it defaults to your regional settings language. In my case it is Dutch which sucks then! When using Gaim you can use /S too but also with /L=1033 to have English which works nicely :-) Hope to see any finding on this.

hehe yeah, you should ;-) I will try it out. without the library option it works just fine.

SolidasRock, just don't mention the options you don't want to have installed. Only the ones you want installed.

Is there any word on the Media Library. I know it is a problem atm to install it, but it is really handy to me. Having all albums or bunch of files in a seperate playlist controllerd via Media List is very handy.

Glad to hear that the quotes work for the "User Name". I do not run a registred version my self as I use Exact Audio Copy (for which I made a WinRAR SFX) and Xing MPEG Encoder v1.5 (old version but uses no registration and it can encose to VBR which I have not been able to do with the latest version). I will edit my start.cmd to include the msiexec.exe /i for when I re-install Windows again. Atm it works great! After 10 test runs.

I just had my 8th run to test things, and not using msiexec.exe /i works fine too. Just used /qn.

Alanoll: Maybe you can use quotes? Meaning this: "path\msiexec.exe /i winamp5.msi Xblah". That should help with spaces. I know it works for directory's but I don't know if it will work here too. [edit]using %systemdrive%\path_to\winamp\msiexec.exe /i winamp.msi Xoptions doesn't work. it quits with an error saying it can not find msiexec.exe. gonna try it without the msiexec.exe /i[/edit]

That's it? Reading from the first page I thought this was supposed to be a silent installation. Didn't think about using /qb or /qn at the end. Thanks for the reply. I will start working on it.

Somehow it isn't working really well. Not at all is a better description. I downloaded the Winamp5.msi from the first page of this thread and I execute it like this: msiexec.exe /i Winamp5.msi Xagent=1 Xintex=1 Xmodernskin=1 Xaudio=1 Xvisual=1 Xextra=1 The only thing that happens is that I get the setup screen. Funny thing though is that when I do a custom installation, everything is selected according to what I specify on the command line. Am I missing something here, or is it just me? Any help would be appreciated.

If you download the trial version of DreamWeaver MX 2004 and unpack the file, there is a directory containing a silent installation of Flash Player 7 AX (dunno what AX means). I just ran it and there is only a progress bar in a little window. From what I can see it is great to use instead of the normal installer for Flash/Shockwave. Need to check it out ofcourse.

I solved my problem by pulling out the si3112 from txtsetup.sif(?) so it will only load the si3112r driver. Then I am able to use the full 157000MB drive instead of it showing 2*82.3GB. Now to solve some aplication related problems like ati drivers/control panel and nvmixer. both use the same type of setup (using a setup.iss file) but both do absolutly nothing! But that is food for another thread or the search.

My drives are of course set up as RAID 0 before starting the installation.

Sorry for the late reply. I forgot to check the notification button... I do get the screen when I use original setup CD and drivers disk using F6, but not with my unattended setup CD. It really is a screen before the screen where you make or remove partitions. I can not explain it otherwise. Using my own unattended screen it skips that screen and puts me right in the partitioning screen, thus giving me the two seperate drives. Also, I do see that the RAID drivers are loaded. Btw: I also tried to use the drivers disk with my unattended CD and still it gave me the two seperate drives, therefore I must be missing a option line of some kind... Pasting the top of my winnt.sif I will do tomorrow since internet is out at home for the moment, since the a** I live with did not pay again I am using my onboard SiI 3112 SATA controller on my Abit NF7-S Rev 2 motherboard. The drivers are integrated as shown in another thread on these forums.