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http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=30456

no game i'm aware of inherently uses switches... though most games are going to use the installshield installer, you could follow the rules for installshield here: http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/applications/installshield.htm

all about hardware/game support..... that's why i use it.

you could use a program like autoit, or something similar that would watch your machine as you install a program (or game), and then take a snapshot of the changes made to your system, and build an installer for you. then you run it on your uA CD and it will install the game silently

runonce will be processed when the cmdlines.txt is processed... appx the t-12 mark. Once setup reboots, upon login the programs scheduled to run will run... i.e. office will be installed.

this way works for me: save the cool looking nero icon into a folder in your SFX... in the archive options, it allows you to swap in a different icon. just select the one you saved and you're all set

If you limited PowerDVD, but did not tell WMP anything, then you would probably have some files that are unassociated, so I would say use the reg tweaks to add associations to WMP

%systemdrive% refers to whatever drive Windows is installing on.

http://greenmachine.msfnhosting.com/READING/addraid.htm that walkthrough is for the SIl 3112 SATA chipset, however the same thing applies for whatever chipset. just follow the walkthrough after reading the notes at the bottom. found from http://unattended.msfn.org

tested it again, and taking out the "start" before watchdriversignpolicy keeps the GUI setup from beginning. Once I reboot the computer, setup starts over, and everything progresses. The system still does not install sound or audio, so something is getting messup because of that.

diskeeper has definetly been talked about... you have to run the exe, and in your temp directory will be a randomly numbered .MSI file. you can then use the /qb, or /qn as for itunes, i'm not sure

Sorry for not testing it as soon as I said i would... had other issues pop up w/ the CD that I needed to fix first. Bashrat, when I changed what you suggested in pre-setup (I also remarked out the deletion of the drivers directory on the CD because the sound card control panel cmd file wasn't running during my runonce however I did notice a couple things.... after the text setup portion, my computer did not automatically reboot and begin GUI setup. My lan and sound drivers were not installed. I'll test again with another CD to ensure it wasn't a glitch or anything... will post results.

Let me make sure I understand. When that part of your batch file is run, you actually see start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\Office2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS="unattended.mst" /qb- if you do, make sure you do not have an ECHO statement before that. If not, post your cmd file (removing product keys and such if they exist), and maybe we can figure it out.

in the unattended office guide, I think that too many people get confused where at the end you have the path to your .MST file. The text surrounding that section seems to be a little misleading perhaps? some uninitiated unattenders seem to think that the absolute path to the MST must be changed in the ORK, when in fact it only has to be changed in your command call. maybe changing the text to refect that, and possibly show an example code of the correct way to call the file would make it easier to understand? my .02 here's a link to the most recent post regarding this confusion http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=33474

basically what is happening in the installation of Office 2k3, is that you run setup, and call the unattended.mst file. When you copy the office to your hard drive under C:\XPCD\$OEM$\$1\install\Applications\Office2003, that path does not exist when you actually run the setup file during Windows setup. What your code should look like is as follows: start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\Office2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS="unattended.mst" /qb- you're not going to be able to change it in the office resource kit, because you don't need to. The ORK just provides that assuming you will be running the install during normal windows operation, when the path to the MST is valid.

Sorry, I didn't get a chance to tonight... I've made the neccessary change to the pre-setup.cmd, once I figure out why my shrank 0ffice2003 stops installing midway through, I'll make a new image. Should be wednesday or thursday at the latest. I'll keep ya posted

I know you didn't come up with the method, and that's fine. I'm just glad i'm not the only one... I going nuts for a while trying to figure out what I was messing up . I can only guess that some command running in the background is not exiting when it should, and that's why it doesn't reboot, but the only problem with that is if that was the case, I would expect everyone to have that problem, not just me and a couple other people. In any event, maybe if someone figures it out, they can post the fix here. Thanks for the help

I'm not alone!

actually, on the test machine, only sound and LAN are used. I don't have a test machine available to me at the moment with a mass storage controller on it. I do get through the text mode setup without a problem (where it copies the $OEM$ folders and such), it is after that reboot, where we get the gui-mode setup that it seems like it's waiting for something after that completes, before it reboots. Once I reboot manually and we get the first logon, my runonce is completed successfully, and then it opens my desktop. If I check my device manager, it recognizes the sound and lan controllers, so I know the drivers are installed properly (before your driver pack, I had to install them manually). That's why a part of me thinks one of the setup files is not completing properly and allowing for a normal reboot, but i'm not sure. Thanks for the help

everything is up-to-date afaik lan 4111 masstorage 410 sound 4111 update v009 I'll sit on it for a little bit... it's not too critical as I can just reboot manually, but then it isn't unattended is it ? Thanks for the reply

I couldn't find anyone else with this problem, so I'm not sure what i'm doing wrong. Everything works on my CD except one part of setup. Once the T minus X GUI setup finishes, the computer should reboot automatically... only in my case it doesn't. It sits at a nice light blue background (not BSOD). I've left it there quite a while (10 minutes I think) and it didn't do anything. I have to manually power my computer down, and reboot it. Once that is done, setup continues and it continues into my RunOnce. I did follow the directions completely from the driverpacksbase folder and I did not modify anything, so I'm not sure what I did to cause this. I tried making the exact same CD (in DVD format to cover the additional 100+MB) using method 1, and setup reboots normally. Any suggestions on where I can start? Any help woud be much appreciated. Thanks

i agree w/ those above... the hauppage are the best cards.

could always search your computer for *.txt. it will bring a lot of results, but the file will be there somewhere

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=12657 found via search function. It is also stickied to the top of this forum.

the ad-aware was discussed in a thread not too long ago... what you have to do is get PSKill.exe (google it) and put it wherever you want (for me, it is in the same location as my cmd file) and add the following commands to your batch right after the install is completed. This is from my batch: start /wait %systemdrive%\install\applications\lavasoft\aawsepro105.exe /S start /wait %systemdrive%\install\pskill.exe hh.exe start /wait %systemdrive%\install\pskill.exe ad-aware.exe that will stop the scan and the program from running once the install is complete hope that helps