[Partitioning prior to unattended install]

Have a look at http://www.aefdisk.com, dos-utility you can run before you do the setup of windows.

[Log RunOnceEx]

Me too, as you can see I still had the flags=30 in; never got any result; errors or not.

And if you follow the URL you can capture the whole bachtfile like this in a logfile.

[Need more then one partition]

I want to automatically create my partitions:

C System 8 Gbyte

D Temp 4 Gbyte

E Data the rest

I want this for every server. The problem is that in DOS the max partitionsize cannot be 8 Gbyte. I know that in the unattended.txt file I can expand the partition to whatever is left but how do I do this unattended with 3 partitions?

[Log RunOnceEx]

I was looking for a way to capture in a logfile the activities whenh RunOnceEx executes. I came across the following topic:

http://www.jsiinc.com/subb/tip0500/rh0501.htm

So I used this and it works great, here's an example:

set log=%logdir%\install.log

SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx

REG ADD %KEY% /V FLAGS /D 0x00000030 /t REG_DWORD /f
REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "post Install Script" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\020 /VE /D "Adjusting Windows boot-menu" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\020 /V 1 /D "%comspec% /c echo --- Adjusting Windows boot-menu>>%log% 2>&1" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\020 /V 2 /D "bootcfg /timeout 5" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\020 /V 3 /D "bootcfg /delete /ID 2" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\030 /VE /D "Change 'My Computer' " /f
REG ADD %KEY%\030 /V 1 /D "%comspec% /c echo --- Change 'My Computer' >>%log% 2>&1" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\030 /V 2 /D "regedit -s %SystemDrive%\$oem$\MyComp.reg" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\040 /VE /D "Allocate reserve-file of 256 Mb" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\040 /V 1 /D "%comspec% /c echo --- Allocate reserve-file of 256 Mb >>%log% 2>&1" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\040 /V 2 /D "fsutil file createnew c:\reserve.donotdelete 256000000" /f

[Remote Desktop for administrators]

Bedankt, werkt !

[Remote Desktop for administrators]

Does anybody know how to enable the remote desktop in XP via a script or registry?

[Stop on error]

Will Xplode stop executing when a called executable or batch-file returns with an error?

regards

Xaveer

[Errorhandling and Runonceex]

I added this value FLAGS=DWORD:00000030 but no logfiles created.

I have not tried yet the XPlode-utility instead of the RunOnceEx. Will that give me more errorhandling control?

regards

Xaveer

[Errorhandling and Runonceex]

I am trying to convert my installation to use the Runonceex. In one of the entries I call a batch procedure, which executes.

However, if the batch procedure failes for a reason (e.g. exit 1) it just continues with the other entries and nothing shows that something has failed.

Is it possible and how to stop further execution and give a clear warning that something has failed using runonceex?

regards

Xaveer