Radimus

Avast AV Home credits to SteBro

look at cdburnerXP... freeware will convert nero and bin to iso DL the exe installer, dbl-click it, but do not install. Look in your %temp% and you will find the MSI that is the real installer that you can install silent. just like daemon-tools

that is what I'm doing... just so I can update the ghost image identically from the one before. Unattend install XP and apps and reg keys and etc. then sysprep and deploy

you do not want unattended CD (although it is handy) You want to look into sysprep. See the deploy.chm and ref.chm in the deploy.cab on the XP CD

you would need a boot floppy to format the drive and copy the file to c: then remove and boot the CD, but you cannot repart the drive as it would erase the file. in any way you look at it, it will still be a 2 step process

auto CD to install Freeware. 7zip AcrobatReader AvastAV CDBurnerXP KLMCodecs DaemonTools&awxDTools Flash Gimp Leechget MSNMessenger&msgPlus MSReader MSUSBDriveMgr OpenOffice PDFCreator Rainlender RainMeter SecretMaker SpywareBlaster tightvnc ZoneAlarm not done with it yet, but it is in progress. I may see it I can fit it all (or most of it) in a Unattended XP CD start /wait "" 7z313.exe -y /q /r:n start /wait "" AdbeRdr60_enu_full.exe -p"-s /v\"/qb\"" start /wait "" Acro-Reader_6.0.2_Update.exe -p /S /v/qn rd "%allusersprofile%\Start Menu\Programs\PrintMe Internet Printing" /s /q start /wait "" AvastAV\setupeng.exe start /wait "" CDBurnerXP\CDBurnerXP_Pro_3.msi /qb-! start /wait "" DaemonTools\daemon.msi /quiet /passive /qn /norestart REBOOT=ReallySuppress start /wait "" DaemonTools\awxDTools.exe /S rd "%userprofile%\Start Menu\Programs\arniWORX" /s /q start /wait "" Flash\Shockwave10.exe start /wait "" Flash\Flash7.exe start /wait "" Gimp\gtk+-2.4.10-20041001-setup.exe /S start /wait "" Gimp\gimp-2.0.5-i586-setup.exe /S start /wait "" KLMCodecs\klmcodec116.exe /verysilent /noicons start /wait "" Leechget\LeechGet_2004_RC5Ver1001520.exe /VERYSILENT /SP- TASKKILL /F /IM leechget.exe Del "%allusersprofile%\Start Menu\Programs\LeechGet 2004.lnk" start /wait "" MBSA\MBSASetup-en.msi /qb-! start /wait "" MSNMessenger\MsnMsgs.msi /qb-! start /wait "" MSNMessenger\MsgPlus-325.exe /SilentInstallNoSponsor TASKKILL /F /IM msnmsgr.exe start /wait "" msreader\setup.exe /s /sms start /wait "" MSUSBDriveMgr\UFDSetupWizard.msi /qb-! start /wait "" OpenOffice\OpenOffice113.exe reg /s openoffice\ooorg.reg start /wait "" PDFCreator\PDFCreator.exe start /wait "" Secretmaker\secretmakersetup.exe /S /N TASKKILL /F /IM secretmakersetup.exe start /wait "" SpywareBlaster\spywareblastersetup32.exe /SILENT /NOCANCEL /SP- /NORESTART TASKKILL /F /IM spywareblaster.exe start /wait "" SpywareBlaster\spywareguardsetup.exe /SILENT /NOCANCEL /SP- /NORESTART TASKKILL /F /IM spywareguard.exe

then what firewall are you talking about

look in the winnt.sif for the SP2 firewall settings. see the unattended guide on this site

I'm cheap and use the freeware version of Winstall 2003 LE

more specific please... what are you trying to do? @echo Off netsh firewall reset netsh firewall set service fileandprint enable subnet netsh firewall set service remoteadmin enable subnet netsh firewall set service remotedesktop enable subnet netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 enable

Office product (word/excel/etc like product) http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.3/index.html zip/compresion program http://www.7-zip.org/ Spyware removal http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html Antivirus http://www.free-av.com/ http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/1/ Photo editing product http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html needs GTK+ 2 for Windows (version 2.4.10) and The Gimp for Windows (version 2.0.5) Security/popup cleaner/spam filter http://www.secretmaker.com

BTW, While Autoit works, I'd rather repackage it into a MSI. my install cds work and no need for autoit... However, it is a useful tool.

I have a bat file on my desktop that ISO's a dir that I drop on it (2 actually 1 that makes a bootable iso and one regular one) then I have another bat file that burns an ISO to CD using cdburn.exe, everything is drag and drop... and relatively fast

ping...

It is kind of a play on the French Army weapons... never been fired and only dropped once. http://www.iconservatives.org.uk/french_jokes.htm

http://unattended.sourceforge.net/installers.html#nsis

as simple as it sounds... http://www.secretmaker.com/downloads/default.html it looks like an all in one antispyware, popup killer, spam killler, etc, all in one tool

BTW.. I really do hate the search engine on this site... most forums engines take you to the post of the hit, where this one provides the thread. Some threads are dozens of posts long... It does take patience to go through them all

/S /N almost does it, but it still pauses at the reboot screen...

you MIGHT be able to have it on a floppy... Unattended is an administrative sort of procedure, and presupposes that you have all the corporate tools available. the most important one would be a corp version of the OS, which makes things MUCH simpler, like not needing activation and all that other bull. Even small organizations can qualify for corp licenses... I think you only need like 10 licenses/computers

I run mine fine on evo d500, d510, and d530; also Dell Optiplex GX250, GX260, and GX270; Also Latitude C510, C610, and d505 I used Nlite to take a winXPsp1 CD, slipstream SP2 into it, and remove the unnecessary directories, but all the components are still there. I added a $oem$ folder for drivers and cmdlines.txt and runonceex

what I do is a multi-CD install runoneex calls a bat on the CD, and the CD then controlls the install of the apps. I make a custom CD3 for different environments, and it is only using a runonceex entry looking for %cdrom%\cd3.bat Each CD3 has different apps, and a CD3.bat that installs all the apps on it CD1=unattended XPsp2 +hotfixes and drivers CD2=full mso2k3 + updates CD3=work apps (licensed apps for work environment) CD3=home apps (purchased apps I use at home) CD3=free apps (free apps I use when setting up PCs on side jobs)

create a file on the root of C: place a few characters in it, so it's size isn't 0 bytes name it NTLDR with no extension

You're welcome Desert Storm I

I apply everything at RunOnceEx.cmd