MrLaforge

We run a RIS setup to rollout new computers to our medium sized business. It's all been running very successfully until we purchased 7 new C521 Dell AMD based PC's. Dell have made some major changes on this model and we are having massive problems. The model contains the following: Nvidia Geforce 6130 Video Card Nvidia SMBus Sigmatel 92XX C-Major HD Audio Each of the items above will not install using the supplied drivers from Dell using the risstndrd.sif file Has anyone successfully installed any of these items via ris or unattended? Anyone have anything helpful to assist? Thanks in advance, MrL

I agree with d'man. Centura does the job, sure, but it is not the most user friendly program. I doubt you will find much help on the subject as it is hard enough to find help from Gupta period. I guess it depends on if you are learning Centura specifically or if you are comfortable with your SQL, PL/SQL skills. I can only talk from an Oracle point of view but my recommendation, if it is SQL you want to learn, is to stick with SQLPLUS (Oracle) or your equivalent. There is lots of help for Oracle on their documentation CD's. Please don't take offence if you are beond this level, it's just my interpretation of your message

Ok everything works perfectly when we remove the cmdow /HID command, so we can now successfully build, however to make the whole process neater we would like to hide or at least minimise the installer windows.. has anyone else had the issue of cmdow causing the runonceex reg method to skip through installations? is there a way around this?

Thanks for that information, however it also appears that the cmdow@ /HID command was causing the script to lose focus and move to the next item, even though CMD was still running, by removing the hide command and replacing it with minimise, the script now runs as we like. Thanks very much for the assistance though!

Hi everyone, My First post here so please be gentle. Firstly thankyou to everyone involved in creating such a large repository of knowledge on this topic, its been most helpful! Our current situation is that we are creating a new network (our company recently got sold) and we are upgrading to windows 2003 servers, and windows XP desktops(115) We have RIS working correctly, and we are now at the stage where we need to install applications as part of the RIS process, we are looking to do this automatically after the RIS process has finished. Now I have read through many of the automated process available, and have settled on runonceex as our preferred method. When we run a RIS install we create a local user on the machine with an identical username and password to a network user which allows us to run all of our installations from the network.. due to the high volume of traffic that would be required to copy all the software installs locally before running, this is the preferred method. On reboot after ris, we automatically login as the local user created and then commence the installations via the runonce key.. Here is an example of our current runonceex.cmd cmdow @ /HID @echo off SET PP=\\ftafp01\reminst\Setup\English\Images\WINDOWSXPSP1\$oem$\SOFTWARE\ SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx SET KEY2="HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" REG ADD %KEY2% /V DefaultPassword /D "*******" /f #password removed# REG ADD %KEY2% /V DefaultUsername /D "swinstall" /f REG ADD %KEY2% /V AutoAdminLogon /D "1" /f REG ADD %KEY2% /V ForceAutoLogon /D "1" /f REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "FTA Automated Program Installation" /f REG ADD %KEY%\000 /VE /D "Waiting for Network Components" /f REG ADD %KEY%\000 /V 1 /D "cmdow @ /HID sleep 10" /f REG ADD %KEY%\001 /VE /D "Winzip 9.0" /f REG ADD %KEY%\001 /V 1 /D "%PP%WINZIP9\WINZIP32.EXE /noqp /autoinstall" /f REG ADD %KEY%\002 /VE /D "Adobe Reader 7.0" /f REG ADD %KEY%\002 /V 1 /D "%PP%ADOBEREADER7\ADOBEREADER7.EXE /S /V/QN" /f REG ADD %KEY%\002 /V 2 /D "cmdow @ /HID sleep 30" /f REG ADD %KEY%\003 /VE /D "Microsoft Office 2003" /f REG ADD %KEY%\003 /V 1 /D "C:\windows\files\office2k3.cmd" /f REG ADD %KEY%\004 /VE /D "Oracle Client 9.2" /f REG ADD %KEY%\004 /V 1 /D "C:\windows\files\oracle92.cmd" /f REG ADD %KEY%\099 /VE /D "Cleaning Up and Rebooting" /f REG ADD %KEY%\099 /V 1 /D "%PP%cleanup.cmd" /f the cmd file for the office install is: SET PP=\\ftafp01\reminst\Setup\English\Images\WINDOWSXPSP1\$oem$\SOFTWARE\ %PP%OFFICEPRO2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=FTA.MST /qb- Now the issue we are experiencing is that when the machine boots for the first time, winzip and acrobat 7 install fine, however office begins the install, then just disappears and oracle doesn't finish before the cleanup command reboots the system, how can we ensure that the install waits until its completed before it moves to the next task? We have also tried placing the sleep command in to the install cmd files but still with no success, however once the machine is rebooted and i logon as myself, if i then run the runonceex script and reboot it works as advertised.. is there something critical that I am missing here? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Paul