IcemanND

Your first post had the path as ...\framework 1.1\ but you posted you cmd file with ....\framework1.1\ one with a space one without. make sure the paths in the file match the paths on the hard drive.

remove the quote from in from of START. sorry I may not have explained ot clearly. it should look like the code I posted. FYI: when posting code anf inf's etc for readability place them inside code tags.

The START command sees the first item in quotes and thinks it should be the title. Place a set of empty double quotes before the /wait and after start should solve it for you. START ["title"] [/Dpath] [/MIN] [/MAX] [/sEPARATE | /SHARED] [/LOW | /NORMAL | /HIGH | /REALTIME | /ABOVENORMAL | /BELOWNORMAL] [/WAIT] [command/program] [parameters] ECHO Installing .NET Framework v1.1 ECHO Please wait... start "" /wait "%systemdrive%\install\Framework1.1\install.exe" ECHO Installing .NET Framework v2.0 ECHO Please wait... start "" /wait "%systemdrive%\install\NetFramework 2.0\install.exe" /S /qb-! /f ECHO Installing Adobe Reader 7 ECHO Please wait... start "" /wait "%systemdrive%\install\Adobe Reader 7\AdbeRdr708_en_US.exe" -p-s /v\"/qn\"" ECHO. ECHO Installing Office 2003 Professional ECHO Please wait... start "" /wait "%systemdrive%\install\Office2003\setup.exe" TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb- ECHO. ECHO Quicktime ECHO Please wait... start "" /wait "%systemdrive%\install\Quicktime\QuickTimeInstaller.exe" /S /V/qn ECHO. ECHO Installing Windows Media Player 11 ECHO Please wait... start "" /wait "%systemdrive%\install\WMP11\MP11setup.exe" /q:A /c:"setup_wm.exe /Q /R:N /DisallowSystemRestore" ECHO. ECHO Installing Sun Java ECHO Please wait... start "" /wait "%systemdrive%\install\Sun Java\Sun Java.exe" [/L<language ID>] /s [ADDLOCAL=jrecore[,extra][,other_US] | ALL] [IEXPLORER=1] [MOZILLA=1] [INSTALLDIR=<drive>:\<install_path>] [REBOOT=Suppress] [JAVAUPDATE=0] [CUSTOM=1] ECHO. ECHO Installing Adobe ShockWave Player 10.2.0 ECHO Please wait... start "" /wait "%systemdrive%\install\Adobe\Shockwave.exe" /s ECHO. ECHO Installing Adobe Flash Player 9.0.45 ECHO Please wait... start "" /wait "%systemdrive%\install\Adobe\Flash.exe" /s exit

Where are you doing the install from? post the file that the commands are running from, that may help clear it up, or post the contents of the file in the post.

Depending upon where you are running this from you may need to enclose the command and path in double quotes. For example: "C:\install\Install\Framework 1.1\dnet11.exe" the way it is running now it thinks the first switch is the 1.1 and Framework is the executable it should run.

check with the coordinator of your campuses Resnet, most universities have a linked resnet listserv for communications amongst schools in regards to student residential networks. If they would allow you to you may be able to find much of the information you need in the archives of the resnet listserv, or you could ask if you could be added or post your questions to the list.

is there a space in the path that the error is in? right after the word 'framework' in this case?

the warranty should be fine. If you call for support you may get "we can't help you because you changed the os" response but it should have no effect on the warranty. if you are going to run with the installed os I'd just leave them, what's 13gb when you've got nearly 300gb? If you are going to reload then blow them away.

You can download tzedit from microsoft and directly edit the time zone settings through it. I had to do the same thing for my machine running xp sp3 build 3264 apparently didn't have the time zone updates in it. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914387 the download you want is near the bottom of the page.

I'm familiar with them, just never seen a machine with two before. Dell and IBM/Lenovo both used them extensively in XP. Dell for diagnostics, IBM for diags and restore. Why Acer would need two is beyond me. But after 9 years of desktop and hardware support of any system from Acer to Zenith I'm glad to have spent the last 2 years doing desktop only support on systems I built the image for. Then when a user (read student/staff/faculty member) messes something I just backup the data and drop an image back on. No more playing with every manufacturers idea of the perfect scenario.

Can't say that i have ever seen a machine with two before, but they are normally the hdden partition which contains either the factory restore partition and or diagnostics. Accessible from boot up by pressing some function key normally.

If you have included an answer file in your installation CD you will not be able to use F6 to get the mass storage drivers from floppy.

instead of waking a 3 year old thread it would be better to have started a new thread. But since it has been done, if you have control of the logoff script add code to check what network you system sees and don't run if the vpn is active. By the sound of it it is timing out while trying to contact your domain controller or a filer which is not properly contactable when on the VPN Ten minutes is the default timeout for startup.login.logoff scripts on a domain.

The Ghost solution Suite using ghost console can remotely image machines. You have to set up the machine with the console first as I recall though in order to do a push. You can also multicast the image in a pull implementation.

And turn off simple file sharing on the machine sharing the folder

So you want to give the CMD file a wild card file list *.txt a?c.txt, or listed individual files a.txt b.txt c.txt, or do you want to drag selected files onto the icon and have them processed?

I personally have never run into a problem like this with any of the methods of imaging I have used. I have seen similar problems but they were hardware related, memory or hard drive. Not saying this is your issue but this is my experience.

Have you tried another imaging application to verify that it is a WIM problem and not an issue with your install?

If you have an SMS server your users can install advertised software as standard user.

save it as pad_zeros.cmd in the folder with your files. the double click

%date% is not your normal environment variable. But there is a Date function that is part of the Excel function set.

how's this, will pad the file name with zero's in front to end up with an 8 character filename. @echo off setlocal enableextensions setlocal enabledelayedexpansion for %%? in (*.txt) do ( set fname=%%? set fname=!fname:~0,-4! set nname= for /l %%z in (7,-1,0) do ( if "!fname:~%%z!"=="" ( set nname=0!nname! ) ) ren "%%?" "!nname!%%?" )

Here's is one I used to use to update the MSI installer on machines via startup script. Dim objWMIService, strOS, strOSCaption Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\cimv2") strOS = "" Set OSSet = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem") ' Caption value for different OS: ' Microsoft Windows 2000 ... ' Microsoft Windows XP ... ' Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, ..... Edition ' Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise For Each OS in OSSet strOSCaption = OS.Caption Select Case True Case InStr(1, strOSCaption, "windows 2000", vbTextCompare) > 0 strOS = "Windows 2000" Case InStr(1, strOSCaption, "windows xp", vbTextCompare) > 0 strOS = "Windows XP" Case InStr(1, strOSCaption, "windows(r) server 2003", vbTextCompare) > 0 strOS = "Windows Server 2003" Case InStr(1, strOSCaption, "windows vista", vbTextCompare) > 0 strOS = "Windows Vista" End Select Next if strOS = "Windows XP" then 'get version of exist a file being updated and check to see if update needs to be applied. 'no need to reinstall the update at each boot. MSIFileSpec = WshShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%SystemRoot%") & "\System32\msi.dll" If (fso.FileExists(MSIFileSpec)) Then CurrentFileVersion = fso.GetFileVersion(MSIFileSpec) End If CurrentFileVersion = Replace(CurrentFileVersion, ".", "") if CurrentFileVersion < 3140004003 then CommandLine = DSSBinLocation & "WindowsXP-KB927891-v2-x86-ENU.exe /passive /nobackup /forceappsclose /warnrestart:4" WshShell.Run CommandLine, 1, false end if end if set OSSet = nothing set objWMIService = nothing

I didn't put a drive letter in the assign statement because there are instances where the letter you may wish to use could be assigned already. so rather than have a failure I let it pick the next available letter in the script.

you can add the recursive path list to the registry devicepath value and it will search through all of the folders listed in this value. there are also utilities in the device drivers forum to install drivers after the windows installation that will search a folder structure and update all of the installed drivers as needed. topic moved to Device Drivers.