TWILL

October 7, 2004

Thanks for the replies.

Turns out it was something in the txtsetup.sif that it did not like. I re-did the txtsetup.sif part and whola, it worked!!!

October 7, 2004

I am trying to add the SI3112 SATA drivers to my UXPCD. I followed greenmachine's guide exactly as it was written.

Im getting this error when setup tries to copy all the files over for installation right after formating. Ive condensed the exact wording.

Setup cannot copy the file: si3112.inf

to retry press enter

to skip press esc

to quit press F3

anyone know what I am doing wrong?

Driver call from winnt.sif:

[Unattended]
	UnattendMode = FullUnattended
	UnattendSwitch = Yes
	OemPreinstall = Yes
	OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\001_sata\SI3112" 
	OemSkipEula = Yes
	FileSystem = *
	WaitForReboot = No
	TargetPath = "\Windows"
	DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore
	NonDriverSigningPolicy = Ignore
	Hibernation = No	
	Repartition=Yes

I am trying to verify the UXPCD using VMWARE could this be the problem? Ive read a few posts saying that you cant test SATA drivers under VMWARE which makes sense, but shouldnt I still be able to install windows?

thanks

TWILL

September 5, 2004

Sounds like your browser has been "Hijacked"

If you havent already done so, you should run some spyware tools such as spybot and adaware and then try Hijackthis.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html

TWILL

August 30, 2004

Try here:

http://www.tss2000.nl/site_pages/style_wallpapers.php?CV=1

then goto the bottom and search for: Bliss

it was submitted by wstaylor

There are some really good wallpapers on that site as well if you are not familair with it. You have to join to download and there are download limits. I dont remember what they are, if you need to know youll have to look at the FAQ there.

enjoy

TWILL

looks like we were thinkg the same thing Astalavista, but you were a bit quicker!!

June 17, 2004

@Strat79 -- Thanks fof the offer. Im not that worried about it anymore. I spent way too much time trying to get it to work with the windows post installer.

Thanks again

TWILL

June 14, 2004

Thanks for the replies guys!

Ive been real busy I had forgotten about this topic. Ive given up on it.

@MCT I tried but could not get the install rite to work...

@Max I dont prefer the send keys option but thanks anyway.

TWILL

June 12, 2004

Can anyone suggest a good favorites bookmark manager?

Im sick of trying to find stuff in IE favorites. I get lazy and never sort them as I bookmark my links.

I found a site with lots of them but I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions to help me maybe weed through this list.

Im not really interested in keeping them online. Just a little proggy for my local machine.

http://www.lights.com/pickalink/bookmarks/

thanks

TWILL

May 30, 2004

In case anyone cares....

I contacted E-Trust and they said the dont support silent installs at this time.

May 27, 2004

Can anyone explain what .mif files ( Management Information Format) are exactly used for? And yes I have used google!

Can they be used to help install programs or are they for info only after installation?

these are the switches I am talking about:

-m[filename]

Causes Setup.exe to generate a Management Information Format (.mif) file automatically at the end of the setup. Do not include a path - the .mif file is always placed in the Windows folder. [filename] is optional. If you do not specify a filename, the resulting file will be called Status.mif.

-m1[serial number]

Tells setup to place the indicated serial number in the created .mif file.

Reason I ask is because I have been trying to install EZ Armor Antivirus which uses an installshield installer and it is not recording the license key when I am using the -R switch. I was hoping to be able to merge in the key some other way.

TWILL

May 27, 2004

Anyone had any luck with this one?

I keep getting the dang prompt for the key!!!!

thnx

TWILL

May 24, 2004

Have you seen this post by BuckeyeXP, it works great:

Office Shrink

This only works if you are not planning on installing the complete office suite.

I just use word and excel and after using the office shrink I got it down to about 148MB then zipped it to a 68MB SFX.

May 22, 2004

Sorry, dont know what to tell you...

I guess you could start all over. Sometimes thats the easiest thing to do.

I just looked at the NAV 2004 unattended install thread http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=15884 and apparently there are three ways to do this now. Have you taken a look at it recently? Maybe it will work if you try another way.

just a thought...

May 22, 2004

Are you sure its this section of code that is causing you this error?

One thing you can try if you havent done so already is to make a seperate cmd file with this section in it and try running it and see if you get the errors.

May 22, 2004

Im not sure if this is your problem but .....

I think this

REG ADD %KEY%\001 /V 001 /D "REGEDIT %systemdrive%\Install\NAV2004\NAVREG.reg /S" /f

should be this

REG ADD %KEY%\001 /V 001 /D "REGEDIT /S %systemdrive%\Install\NAV2004\NAVREG.reg" /f

May 22, 2004

@Marthax

The leading zeros allow it to sort correctly.

if you dont have the leading zeros you get this:

1

10

11

12

2

3

4

if you put in the leading zeros you get this

001

002

003

004

011

012

so heres what you want

REG ADD %KEY%\001 /VE /D "NAV 2004" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\001 /V 001 /D "REGEDIT %systemdrive%\Install\NAV2004\NAVREG.reg /S" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\001 /V 002 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\NAV2004\NAVSETUP.EXE /O REBOOT=ReallySuppress /QB" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\001 /v 003 /D "taskkill.exe /F /IM cfgwiz.exe" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\001 /v 004 /D "taskkill.exe /F /IM ccApp.exe" /f       
REG ADD %KEY%\001 /v 005 /D "taskkill.exe /F /IM symlcsvc.exe" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\001 /v 006 /D "taskkill.exe /F /IM ccSetMgr.exe" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\001 /v 007 /D "taskkill.exe /F /IM ccEvtMgr.exe" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\001 /v 008 /D "taskkill.exe /F /IM SAVScan.exe" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\001 /v 009 /D "taskkill.exe /F /IM navapsvc.exe" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\001 /v 010 /D "taskkill.exe /F /IM NPROTECT.EXE" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\001 /v 011 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\NAV2004\symlcsys.exe" /f

TWILL

May 22, 2004

@Alanoll - I checked for that and the archive is not deleting the files. Good thought though.

I did however, find a fix, I had to add another line to the runonceex

from this:
//Install Microsoft Office
if (document.inner.WPI.chkbox023.checked){
var CDROM = WshShell.RegRead("HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Setup\\SourcePath");
WshShell.regWrite(KeyBase + "\\125\\", "Installing Microsoft Office", "REG_SZ");
WshShell.regWrite(KeyBase + "\\125\\1", CDROM + "\\install\\Office2003\\Office2003.exe", "REG_SZ");
WshShell.regWrite(KeyBase + "\\125\\2", strPath + "\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-", "REG_SZ");
 }

to this:
//Install Microsoft Office
if (document.inner.WPI.chkbox023.checked){
var CDROM = WshShell.RegRead("HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Setup\\SourcePath");
WshShell.regWrite(KeyBase + "\\125\\", "Installing Microsoft Office", "REG_SZ");
WshShell.regWrite(KeyBase + "\\125\\1", CDROM + "\\install\\Office2003\\Office2003.exe", "REG_SZ");
WshShell.regWrite(KeyBase + "\\130\\1", strPath + "\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-", "REG_SZ");
 }

So it now works! Go figure!

thanks for the input!

TWILL

May 21, 2004

I ran your code and checked the runoceex in regedit. Ive attached a screenshot.

You can see how the items are out of order.

That may be your problem, if you have to run the items in a certian order.

untitled.bmp

May 21, 2004

Oh Ok.... Sorry

You are right Alanoll, I thought he was running different programs.

Marthax, you definitley should add the zeros in fron of the numbers like sleepnmojo said.

Also if you havent done so already, after you run it go to regedit and navigate to the reunonceex key and see what actually gets written and maybe that will help you narrow it down.

May 21, 2004

Thanks for the replies

@[bM]Crusher -- yes it looks a little bad but actually its not much different than the other way everone is writing to the runonceex. Special thanks to Whimsy and AirMaleDFW for helping me with understanding the code, I definitely wouldnt have figured it out all by myself.

Here is a comparison if anyone is interested, they both write to the runonceex:

the unattended install way

REG ADD %KEY%\001 /VE /D "Preparing Installation..." /f

REG ADD %KEY%\001 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\apps\prepare.cmd" /f

var CDROM = WshShell.RegRead("HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Setup\\SourcePath");

WshShell.regWrite(KeyBase + "\\001\\", "Preparing Installation...", "REG_SZ");

WshShell.regWrite(KeyBase + "\\001\\1", CDROM + "\\apps\\prepare.cmd", "REG_SZ"); //prepare cmd is being run from CD instead of systemdrive

@sleepnmojo

Yes the directory it expands to is strPath = c:\temp. Once it unzips, it does begin to install but during the install it goes to the cleanup which deletes strPath or c:\temp.

I can get it to work if I dont zip the files and just install from the regular files. So it must be somthing to do with unzipping that runonceex doesnt like.

thanks again for the replies!!

TWILL

May 21, 2004

MY guess would be the values after the %key% because the values after %key% have to be different, you have them all as 001, if they are not different the reg add will be over written by the next reg add after it.

check out how hoty3k has it done.

%key%001

%key%005

%key%010

etc..

goodluck

TWILL

May 21, 2004

Please bare with me as this is hard to explain, so it may be a little confusing.

Im have been using the windows post install wizard found here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=11491&st=30 to install some apps.

I recently used BuckeyeXPs office shrink to shrink down office here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=16709

I then RAR'd the office files to a sfx file, to shrink it more.

I was able to install office correctly if I installed it manually from the cmd window, but when I try to install unattended office2003 with the post install wizard which uses

runeonceex it never finishes the install before it goes to the next ronceonceex command, which happens to be a clean up command so it deletes all the office install files

before office install is complete.

Here is a snip of the code

// note: strpath is the temp directory

//Install Microsoft Office
if (document.inner.WPI.chkbox023.checked){
var CDROM = WshShell.RegRead("HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Setup\\SourcePath");
WshShell.regWrite(KeyBase + "\\125\\", "Installing Microsoft Office", "REG_SZ");
WshShell.regWrite(KeyBase + "\\125\\1", CDROM + "\\install\\Office2003\\Office2003.exe", "REG_SZ");
WshShell.regWrite(KeyBase + "\\125\\2", strPath + "\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-", "REG_SZ");
  }

  
//Cleanup the Temp directory
WshShell.regWrite(KeyBase + "\\150\\", "Cleaning Up Temp Files", "REG_SZ");
WshShell.regWrite(KeyBase + "\\150\\1", "cmd.exe /c RD /s /q " + strPath, "REG_SZ");

I do know it does unzip the files to the temp directory but it moves to the cleanup process and deletes the files before it installs. I initally had the sfx run the install command but it also never completed, which is why I added the install command seperately as shown in the code above.

I thought all processes had to complete before it moved to the next process.... Does anyone know why its moving to the next one before the current one is completed?

thanks

TWILL

May 21, 2004

I just tried it out with Office2003 to install only word and excel and it worked.

The first time I tried it it didnt work. So I did a fresh install of windows and ran it again and then and it worked.

It gave we loads of file not found errors but I am assume this is normal.

Thanks for the shrink app BuckeyeXP, very much appreciated.

TWILL

May 16, 2004

i have a xpsp1 intergrated cd. & i also have normal xp cd.
should i slipstream my own copy of xp with sp1 or should i just stick with the sp1 intergrated cd files?

I would use the the integrated one because its already done! Im sure the Service Packs are NOT updated (thats why there are hotfixes) , so the one you already have integrated should be good.

May 16, 2004

I had a similar problem making a bootable CD, I dont remember the exact error message.

I finally downloaded the CDIMAGE and batch file from the page that Sebastiaan pointed out.

On finalizing the CD: http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/finish.htm

Heres the dowload for XP PRO

http://unattended.msfn.org/files/CDImage_Pro.zip

Just unzip and run the batch file and youll have a bootable image. Very easy...

You may want to open up the batchfile and take a look at it before you run it to make sure its pointing to your directories.

goodluck

May 4, 2004

Maybe this is what you are looking for.

Taken from Gosh's tips and tricks http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=9453

Tip #1: make a log file:
Unattended installs can be hard to troubleshoot. What i like to do is make a log file, which makes it easier to see where the problem is. To make a log file, have each command end in >> logfile.txt
An example from my current apps.bat file:
QUOTE
@ECHO OFF
ECHO Apps.bat, version %cdver% >> %windir%\apps.log
ECHO Logging started: %date% %time% >> %windir%\apps.log
ECHO Computer: %computername >> %windir%\apps.log
ECHO User: %username% >> %windir%\apps.log
@echo. >> %windir%\apps.log
@echo. >> %windir%\apps.log
This will log information to apps.log.

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