Interesting RunOnce Idea

[mecablaze]

Okay. So I'm pretty new to using nLite (thought I have used it for a while just to integrate hard drive controller drivers). I have never used the RunOnce option in the 'Unattended' page. I want RunOnce to run a single batch script. This batch script will wget (http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/) a PHP script I have on my server. This PHP script will generate another batch script which will request a series of useful programs, also using wget. These packages include Firefox, Thunderbird, K-Lite, Notepad++, etc. Don't worry about the logistics of getting the installer for all of these programs. I had to go through a fun time of screen scraping and other crap in PHP. My question for you guys is where I would put an initial batch script and wget in the Windows XP folder before letting nLite dump the entire folder into an ISO. Also what RunOnce commands would I use.

Confused? Here's another break-down. Right now, on my desktop I have a folder with a batch script, called start.bat, and all of the necessary exe's and dll's for wget. If I run the batch script, wget is copies to the to the current user's desktop, another batch script is downloaded from my server and then run... I feel like anyone who reads this will be confused.

Maybe this will help. Here's the source for my main batch script.

@echo off
for /f "tokens=3 delims=\" %%i in ("%USERPROFILE%") do (set user=%%i) 2>&1

echo Creating an instance of wget on user desktop...
@mkdir "C:\Documents and Settings\%user%\Desktop\download"
@copy libeay32.dll "C:\Documents and Settings\%user%\Desktop\download\libeay32.dll"
@copy msvcr71.dll "C:\Documents and Settings\%user%\Desktop\download\msvcr71.dll"
@copy msvcr80.dll "C:\Documents and Settings\%user%\Desktop\download\msvcr80.dll"
@copy openssl.exe "C:\Documents and Settings\%user%\Desktop\download\openssl.exe"
@copy ssleay32.dll "C:\Documents and Settings\%user%\Desktop\download\ssleay32.dll"
@copy wget.exe "C:\Documents and Settings\%user%\Desktop\download\wget.exe"

cd C:\Documents and Settings\%user%\Desktop\download\ 
wget --no-cache --no-clobber --tries 3 --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1" ****************/winget/get_installers.php?build=true
ren "get_installers.php@build=true" "download.bat"

download.bat

The six copy statements make a copy of wget to the current user's desktop.

If anyone wants help me out with this project or is interested in the concept, please email me at wintallo@gmail.com.

EDIT: by the way, if anyone would like to see my script in action, message me.

Thanks!

Edited August 25, 2008 by mecablaze

[TranceEnergy]

Good presentation, tho you kind of mixed question in it, therefore it gets confusing.

Could you please rephrase question into a single, standalone sentence?

to make the batch file run just call it from guirunonce section inside Nlite, f.ex cmd /R pathtofileyourbatchfile.bat

in windows install cd folder that would translate to %source%\batchfiles\yourbatchfile.bat (example) (%source% nlite makes for you, if not using nlite read up on msfn's guide to unattended for other alternatives)

[mecablaze]

That answered my question. Thanks a lot!

[Idontwantspam]

I notice you use wget... I wasn't aware that windows had wget, and it's a linux/unix feature that I've always wanted. Did you find it somewhere or write it yourself? And either way, could you link me to it? Thanks!

[XIII]

I notice you use wget... I wasn't aware that windows had wget, and it's a linux/unix feature that I've always wanted. Did you find it somewhere or write it yourself? And either way, could you link me to it? Thanks!

You can try http://www.christopherlewis.com/WGet/WGetFiles.htm (linked from the wget wiki which is linked from the wget home page - not that hard to find)

[mecablaze]

Thanks XIII,

You can try http://www.christopherlewis.com/WGet/WGetFiles.htm (linked from the wget wiki which is linked from the wget home page - not that hard to find)

That's exactly where I got my copy.

[mecablaze]

I have another problem. I get an access denied error when excecuting wget (which was copied from the cd to the desktop) from a batch on the cd.

For the sake of simplicity, I have a batch file on my cd and I want that batch file to create a file on the current user's desktop holding the text "test". This is the command I am using right now.

for /f "tokens=3 delims=\" %%i in ("%USERPROFILE%") do (set user=%%i) 2>&1
cd C:\Documents and Settings\%user%\Desktop\
echo test > test.txt

This code does not work. It gives me an "access is denied" error. Is there a way to enable cd batch scripts to write to the hard drive. Note: I can copy files from the cd to the hard drive. This does not solve my problem because I need a program to write to the hard drive from the batch on the cd.

Thanks for the help so far!