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I got to the share can then tried to run the setup.exe and it said that the program could not be run from DOS mode. Any way around that?

right now I have it so that it boots from the network and then stops at the z:\ prompt. --------- I tried running net use \\server\share from the command line and it gave me: "This command is only available on enhanced workstations" error. I need a way to have less user interaction as well. I need to work the net use (if I can get it working) into the PXE boot so that it knows where to go and then it can start running. ----------- Okay, it was trying to connect as Administrator so when I used: net use F: \\server\share and then typed in the password it connected me to the folder. However, is there a way I can put this in to run at the end of the boot process so it will connect automatically and then run a file??

I have setup a PXE server/TFTP with this guide http://ping.windowsdream.com/winner/doc/pxe.html but it boots into a custom interface that they have designed. I would like to make an unattended folder structure with all of the software, drivers, etc. and then be able to access that with the PXE boot. Can anyone point me to a guide or something that will show me how to use the PXE/TFTP server (which is assigning IP's properly) to get people to a folder that I've shared with the install stuff and get it to run? I'm new to this so it would be good if there was a guide on this particular setup. I have made unattended CD's for XP before, but I've never booted over the network to access the files from the CD for the install...

I'm not worried about having to format a computer. I do this stuff in a virtual machine anyway, so if you have to blow it away so be it! Thanks for the help.

Is there a way that you can setup an unattended DVD so that it restricts what users can do with the C: drive? For example, I'm looking for a way to make the C: drive invisable to any user who isn't an administrator and only give them the rights to write to another partition - D:. Can this kind of stuff be done with an unattended DVD?

found that if I placed it within it's own 'install' folder and then called it from the runOnce command it worked. Going to try the other ones from that command too to see if they'll go through as well.

I just made a bootbale DVD for Windows XP and some applications and I used nLite to create it. The Windows part goes on without a problem and so do some of the other things: Device drivers SP2 + hotfixes Firefox Spyware blaster Ad aware Skype The ones that don't are: VNC Office 2003 synctoy McAfee Sonicwall agent I have used a test computer to check if the switches I'm using when I make the .cab files with the nLite component maker are correct and it installs with them, but for some reason those ones fail. The only error messages I get are: 7-zip: config failed I'll have to check on what the McAfee one was because it only happens on the install. However, one thing to note is that I made the office package from the doc on this site (http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=71442) and then I have an Office2003.exe. I repackaged that with the component maker again to run it with the /qb- switch. But was that a mistake. Can I just call the Office2003.exe and the switch is already in there? Sorry, new to this stuff.

no, I made sure it was for a DVD. But it would pop out the drive with the DVD in there and say that the file wasn't written for that type of media.

Thanks....that worked great. Nero wanted a CD so I was wondering if there was something up with nLite. I'll stick with ImgBurn from now on.

I would really like to be able to burn an nLite ISO I made on to a DVD and have a bootable DVD. Is there any way to do that?

One more question.... I know I should start a new thread but.... I'm making the same sort of file for Nero 2.0.2.34(OEM) and I have discovered that it likes the /silent switch but shortly after it starts I get "An error occurred during the copy process (file name: ). Error:3 The system cannot find the path specified. Please reboot the computer and retry" Now this version of Nero does not come as a stand-alone exe or msi but has a lot of folders. If I want to run the setup with the /silent switch do I have to make an MSI with all of the folders and then run THAT file with the switch or is there another reason it's having a problem with this?

Awesome! Just changed the first part of the command to be for 4.1.2 and it worked like a charm. vnc-4_1_2-x86_win32.exe /SILENT /COMPONENTS="!vncviewer, winvnc" /TASKS="installservice, launchservice" Perface. Thanks.

I'm trying to install Real VNC so that it only installs the server portion and not the viewer. I have successfully installed the whole package with the "/silent /sp-" switch, but I need something to put in there so it doesn't install the viewer. Does anyone know how to do this?

yeah, I did find this one later. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=71442 I have just one question about that guide. It says to use the office shrink tool but the links are all dead to that. If I make my MST file and then skip that step will I just end up with a much larger file, but it will still work?

Hi, I was wondering if there was a how-to about installing MS Windows 2003 with the SP's and updates into an nLite 1.4 ISO. I'm sorry if this has been asked before but I just looked at the beginners guide and didn't see it. Can anyone point me in the direction of how to integrate that into the ISO that nLite makes? Thanks.

I've read the article here about installing Visual Studio 2003 for unattended but some of the steps were missing or different and I didn't get it to work. Does anyone have some good instructions about how to package up Visual Studio 2003 or Visual Studio 2005 for use in an unattended installation? I'd like to package up the key and the prereq's so that there is just one file to run, but I would take it any way I can get it

is there nothing about how to install VS 2003 on an unattended DVD?

I've been trying to install VS 2003 with an unattended install but nothing seems to work. I tried the article where you install the prerequisites seperately and then do the VS and MSDN after those, but it doesn't seem to work. I also tried running the setup.exe with the /a switch in the hopes that it would make up a single install file like office 2003 does, but that doesn't seem to work either. Is there a good, maybe simple, guide to getting this on a DVD for an unattended installation?

Ouch! Listen to the scolding I got. I searched for Visual Studio and I could only find two posts about it. One was about making the transform file, but even though I seemed to be using the same version, some of the files he was listing were incorrect or out of date. I've made a transform that I'm going to test with the combination of switches that I took out of both posts concerning VS2003 and I'll test it out today. I just don't think my success rate is very good. I just wanted some sort of program where you could package them up with the keys and stuff and then just point the answer file to the new .msi. I tried Wise but it didn't really work for me.

isn't there some way to input the user data and serials for applications like Visual Studio, Nero, Sourcesafe, etc.?

I've been playing around with installing things silently with an unattended install and I've done things like office 2003 but using the setup.exe /a to make the file with the key embeded. My question is, how can you do this for ANY program? I would like to try to install things like Visual Studio (2003/2005), Virtual Server, MS visual Sourcesafe client, Adobe Audition, etc. How can you package these apps up with the keys, etc. so you can just run them in the background and have them installed with the OS and stuff in an unattended install?

I've been trying this week to put office into my XP unattended install but I'm getting a strange error. After it installs the OS it should install the Office. It's not doing it at the T-12 point. Anyway, I made the admin. installation point, the .MST file, then I made a cmd file and put in: start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Application\Office2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=%systemdrive%\install\Application\Office2003\Unattended.MST /qb- then I have the setup.exe and unattended.mst files in that folder. However, when it comes time to install office it runs though the comments I have in the cmd file (so I know it's finding that and running it, but it fails on the Office and gives me the error: windows cannot find \install\Applications\Office2003\setup.exe Does anyone know how I can fix this? I have been through the docs about setting up the install point, etc., but there doesn't seem to be really clear explanations about what files to make and where to place them, for installing office. **I also tried writing in the batchfile that CDDRIVE=E: and then putting %CDDRIVE% instead of system drive but I get the same thing

thanks, I'll give that a shot. and yes, it was at the T-12 part....

I'm talking about the hotfixes for windows, not Office 2003. I don't have anythnig slipstreamed into that. I'm just trying to get office to install but it won't.

yeah, I have the mst file named unatteded.mst in: C:\XPCD\$OEM$\$1\install\Applications\Office2003