krethan

Thanks for some suggestions. I will have to try those and see what happens.

Hi everyone, I have verified that the runonce.cmd file is being executed from the cmdlines.txt file. However, I do not know why the Adobe Acrobat 7 registry entries are not being put into the registry. Here is my runonce.cmd file: cmdow @ /HID @echo off FOR %%i IN (D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) DO IF EXIST %%i:\cd.txt SET CDROM=%%i: SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Installing Applications" /f REG ADD %KEY%\001 /VE /D "Adobe Reader 7" /f REG ADD %KEY%\001 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\install\ar7\ar7.msi /qn" /f EXIT

It still is not working and I do not know why. Any suggestions anyone?

It is on the root of the CD and I checked the rest of the folder path. Thats looks all right to me.

I put a test batch file in my cmdlines.txt as follows just to see if the cmdlines.txt was getting parsed or not: [COMMANDS] "test.bat" "runonce.cmd" Here is the test.bat file: md %systemdrive%\test Sure enough the test folder is being made so the problem must be with something in the runonce.cmd file. I made sure I had the cd.txt on the root of of the CD to make sure the CD-ROM variable works within the runonce.cmd file: cmdow @ /HID @echo off FOR %%i IN (D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) DO IF EXIST %%i:\cd.txt SET CDROM=%%i: SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Installing Applications" /f REG ADD %KEY%\001 /VE /D "Adobe Reader 7" /f REG ADD %KEY%\001 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\install\ar7\ar7.msi /qn" /f EXIT I don't know why it is still not working.

I would like to use the RunOnceEx method to install applications. However, it seems like the cmdlines.txt is not processed or the runonce.cmd file is not properly configured. I have made sure the cmdlines.txt and runonce.cmd files are in the $OEM$ on the root of the installationation CD and made the OEMPreinstall=Yes in the winnt.sif file. I do not know how come it is not working. Here is my cmdlines.txt file: [COMMANDS] "runonce.cmd" Here is my runonce.cmd file: cmdow @ /HID @echo off FOR %%i IN (D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) DO IF EXIST %%i:\CD.txt SET CDROM=%%i: SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Installing Applications" /f REG ADD %KEY%\005 /VE /D "Adobe Reader 7" /f REG ADD %KEY%\005 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\install\ar7\ar7.msi /qn" /f EXIT Here is my winnt.sif file: ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=1 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [Unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes TargetPath=\WINNT Repartition=Yes WaitForReboot=No [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=test AutoLogon=Yes AutoLogonCount=1 OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=10 OemSkipWelcome=1 [UserData] FullName="Installed for" OrgName="Someone" ComputerName=* [TapiLocation] CountryCode=107 AreaCode=780 [Branding] BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes [URL] Home_Page=http://www.msn.ca [Proxy] Proxy_Enable=0 Use_Same_Proxy=1 [Identification] JoinWorkgroup=workgroup [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes [GuiRunOnce]

I have placed the ie6setup.exe in the svcpack along with the cab files and extracted Direct X 9 as well into the svcpack folder. Deleted the svcpack.in_ file and created a svcpack.inf file. Here is my svcpack.inf: ;Windows 2000 [Version] Signature="$Windows NT$" MajorVersion=5 MinorVersion=0 BuildNumber=2195 [SetupData] CatalogSubDir="\i386\SVCPACK" [ProductCatalogsToInstall] [SetupHotfixesToRun] DXSETUP.EXE /SILENT IE6SETUP.EXE /Q:A /R:N MPSETUP.EXE /Q:A /R:N I do not understand why they both do not get installed. It probably is something simple I am overlooking. Also here is my winnt.sif file that is placed in the I386 folder: ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=1 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [Unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes TargetPath=\WINNT Repartition=Yes WaitForReboot=No [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=Passwords AutoLogon=Yes AutoLogonCount=1 OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=10 OemSkipWelcome=1 [UserData] FullName="Whatever" OrgName="Whatever" ComputerName=* [TapiLocation] CountryCode=107 AreaCode=780 [Branding] BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes [URL] Home_Page=http://www.msn.ca [Proxy] Proxy_Enable=0 Use_Same_Proxy=1 [Identification] JoinWorkgroup=evi [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes