The_Flying_Scot Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Hi there, I am very new to WPI . Basicaly i want to have a disc with the options of installing microsoft office, this will be 5 entries office,frontpage,visio,project and onenote. The problem i have is that i want to tell the application not to reboot after each install of the varios parts of office.the code i am using is%cdrom%\office2003\office\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qn-%cdrom%\office2003\frontpage\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qn-%cdrom%\office2003\visio\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qn-%cdrom%\office2003\project\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qn-%cdrom%\office2003\onenote\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qn-what piece of code is required to stop the reboot thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelsenellenelvian Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 It shouldn't be rebooting between there at all, unless you have placed reboot commands in there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Flying_Scot Posted September 19, 2008 Author Share Posted September 19, 2008 It shouldn't be rebooting between there at all, unless you have placed reboot commands in there...its not rebooting, i am getting some sort of error msg saying it cant reboot, so i was thinking if i told it not to reboot then i would not get the error msg, just my weird thinking on the problem ive got.ive now found on anther site the code is /noreboot so i will add this to my code and find out if my error msg goes awayit could also b e a problem with vm whereif i still get the problem i will post pictures and more info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelsenellenelvian Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 OH aha you've run into the reboot.js error...We are trying our best to get rid of it....There are a couple workarounds that have worked for some (Look in the sticky section). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Flying_Scot Posted September 19, 2008 Author Share Posted September 19, 2008 OH aha you've run into the reboot.js error...We are trying our best to get rid of it....There are a couple workarounds that have worked for some (Look in the sticky section).thanks i will have a look now, if i dont fall asleap 3 am here in scotland lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoner81 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 What version of office are you trying to use? If its 2003 Pro then look here;http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/50/This is what I used to make mine and it works like a charm! as for Frontpage and the others im not to sure at the mo Stoner81 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mritter Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 I found some "bugs" in the installer that cleared up some of the error messages. Still not 100% but have some people testing it.It seems that WPI is getting "tricked" into believing a reboot happened and get started over internally. Totally got me confused. The current error message is only possible after a reboot. No one is doing a reboot.Stay tuned............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Flying_Scot Posted September 22, 2008 Author Share Posted September 22, 2008 I found some "bugs" in the installer that cleared up some of the error messages. Still not 100% but have some people testing it.It seems that WPI is getting "tricked" into believing a reboot happened and get started over internally. Totally got me confused. The current error message is only possible after a reboot. No one is doing a reboot.Stay tuned.............mritter pm sent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Flying_Scot Posted September 22, 2008 Author Share Posted September 22, 2008 What version of office are you trying to use? If its 2003 Pro then look here;http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/50/This is what I used to make mine and it works like a charm! as for Frontpage and the others im not to sure at the mo Stoner81I have used that guide to form my MST files for unatended instalation in WPI, I am now testing for mritter to try and find and iron out a few problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Flying_Scot Posted September 24, 2008 Author Share Posted September 24, 2008 prior to running your install of WPI i tested 5 individual installs of office, project, visio, onenote and frontpage.all were successful. All of my codes end with /noreboot so this should set the installer not to reboot but it doeson the second instance of an office instalation or something tricks WPI into thinking it should reboot. I dont knowcoding but i do know logic. I only use one line of code per instalation, as shown below.%cdrom%\office2003\office\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb- /noreboot%cdrom%\office2003\frontpage\setunext instalation p.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb- /noreboot%cdrom%\office2003\visio\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb- /noreboot%cdrom%\office2003\project\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb- /noreboot%cdrom%\office2003\onenote\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb- /norebootnone of that should be new to you of course but if i were to add a second comand line per install which was noreboot would WPIlook at that and not reboot?How could i code that into the second command line or is it a non starter.another option would be to try and delay the start of the ofending instalation by some sort of time loopHow could i code that into the second command line or is it a non starter as well.I am just thinking out loud it might help or on the other hand i might be talking drivel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mritter Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 For a delay, put a PAUSE 10 in command 2.Like I said in my email: it's not WPI's fault. It is something with the installer code. I have another idea to try, but WPI may get "confused" in another way. I will test it out Wed and post a new beta that night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Flying_Scot Posted September 29, 2008 Author Share Posted September 29, 2008 For a delay, put a PAUSE 10 in command 2.Like I said in my email: it's not WPI's fault. It is something with the installer code. I have another idea to try, but WPI may get "confused" in another way. I will test it out Wed and post a new beta that night.tried those now and still no luck... ah well we live and try again.... let me know when there is more beta testing to doRob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoner81 Posted September 29, 2008 Share Posted September 29, 2008 What version of Office? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Flying_Scot Posted September 29, 2008 Author Share Posted September 29, 2008 What version of Office?2003 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoner81 Posted September 29, 2008 Share Posted September 29, 2008 What version of Office?2003Read and follow thishttp://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/50/Then in WPI for the application assuming you have it in WPI\Install folder you will need the following in the config of WPI"%wpipath%\Install\xxxxx\PRO11.MSI" TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-where xxxxx is the name of the folder containing all your files.Hope this helpsStoner81 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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