Drew_Karee

Thanks a bunch MHz! I sorted through what you said, made those changes from your reply, and everything worked out perfectly! On to adding harder stuff

OK, part of my question has been answered from the guide (duh!). From the Reference area "Overview of the $OEM$ folders": If the files are copied over, either I just missed them, or they were cleaned up because my batch command was improperly written. Did I somehow accidentally skip a bunch of steps and do something more advanced than I knew about?

Thanks for the heads-up MHz. I'd like to install EVERYTHING from the CD (well, a DVD). If I understand you correctly, what you're saying is that I'm copying office to the hard drive ALREADY, but my syntax isn't utilizing the stuff that has been copied to the hard drive? IF I'm understanding you correctly, after the failed intall attempt on my virtual machine in the above posts, I searched throughout the drive it did create, and no traces of anything, so I figured I was still installing from the CD So again, if I understand you correctly, you're saying if I want to install from the CD, don't even bother with that $1 folder (for APPLICATIONS), and just create individual program folders at that same level (inside the $OEM$ folder). If I choose to install in that way, I should leave %PP% being set as the CDRom so that no files are copied over, and all are installed from the CD? Also, if doing this, am I still going to need to have $OEM$ in my path for it to install? All the additional folders and levels I created as I followed the exact Office Installation part of the Unattended guide, so I guess I'm also a little confused as to why there would be all the added folders.

Well, I figured out my problem. It wasn't that I needed a full path to the TRANSFORM command, I needed the full FULL path to my setup.exe. Changing my .cmd file to look like this started the install no problem whatsoever for me 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:\win51ip.SP2 SET CDROM=%%i: SET PP=%cdrom% SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Installing Programs" /f REG ADD %KEY%\000 /VE /D "Microsoft Office 2003 Professional" /f REG ADD %KEY%\000 /V 1 /D "%PP%\$OEM$\$1\install\Applications\OfficeXP\SETUP.EXE TRANSFORMS="Unattended.MST" /qb-" /f EXIT THIS is the part that I was missing that was screwing me up! %PP%\$OEM$\$1\install\Applications\OfficeXP\SETUP.EXE I also threw quotes around the "Unattended.MST" in a previous attempt after reading somewhere that was the proper syntax when NOT doing a 7zip'd install routine, and I can see I never changed it. I'd like to say it also helped, but I'm not certain of that. Now on to adding other stuff.

Well, I think I misunremembered all the things I had been doing, and while searching around here, I realized I did NOT do a full format and install to shrink Office prior to throwing it in with the rest of my XP install. I still gave both of those suggestions a shot, first just adding a path to TRANSFORMS, then changing the switch, then doing BOTH at the same time. No dice on all of those. I'm gonna rebuild my Office Install (natch, I didn't save it ) and try it just as is without shrinking. I'm not averse to a DVD install disc, I just wanted to test it out quick, instead of being patient and making sure stuff worked first before performing magic on my files and effing them up.

Hi all. I know something simple is hanging me up here, but I've been at this for too long to be able to see it. I need your help. I've slipstreamed XP, and shrunk Office and threw it into my XP install. I'm using VMWare to test my ISO's, and I continue to get an error message when it attempts to install Office. I've fiddled with the RunOnceEx.cmd file since it seemed to be looking in the wrong area, and I can't figure out what or where it's supposed to be looking. The error I'm currently getting is "Windows cannot find D:\install\Applications\OfficeXP\setup.exe" It USED to tell me "Windows cannot find D:\Apps\setup.exe" before I changed it to look where I thought it needed to be looking. I also changed a few other things, but without showing you my .cmd file, it'll just make things confusing (at least for me!). XP installed just fine, and Office by itself installed just fine. Combining the two has caused me problems, and here's what I have thus far in my .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:\win51ip.SP2 SET CDROM=%%i: SET PP=%cdrom% SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Installing Programs" /f REG ADD %KEY%\000 /VE /D "Microsoft Office 2003 Professional" /f REG ADD %KEY%\000 /V 1 /D "%PP%\install\Applications\OfficeXP\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-" /f EXIT What am I continuing to screw up or what isn't set up properly to look for the Office install routine? Thanks in advance.