Install not completely unattended / hang at t-12

[nmepar]

Hi all,

I'm a newbie to this thing and put together a winxppro unattend with RunOnceEx installing a number of apps.

In testing in Vmware, I get through the text mode setup fine, reboot, then at the beginning of the gui install stage, i get a dialogue box prompting me to press next to continue. If i press next, it seems to continue fine with no more prompts. Its a little strange i only get the one prompt. Just waiting for VMware to reboot so i can paste a screen shot.

Also, the gui mode install hangs at various stages t13 /t12. To troubleshoot, i'd like to see progress of svcpack.inf / hotfix installs. Can anyone tell me, what I need to do to view install progress of hotfixes / errors etc, and or whether I need to remove cmdow.exe from system32 as well?

Thanks

nmepar

[nmepar]

ok, i've just found another post (didnt come up on search previously) but it looks like i'm missing the following in my winnt.sif (GuiUnattended):

OemSkipWelcome=1

That fixes my initial gui prompt - (well i think it should, still to test), now i need to find out how to view install progress (unattended) of hotfixes!

Thanks

Nmepar

[vbussiro]

Perhaps the same(s) errors as i just did (see my previous post)

Can you post your RunOnceEx.cmd code ?

[[BM]Crusher]

i am not sure about svcpack.inf setups, but if you run your hotfixes with a code similar to this (through a batch file or through RunOnce):

echo Installing hotfix #1%systemdrive%\hotfixes\kb826939.exe /Q /O /N /Z >%systemdrive%\hotfix.logecho Installing hotfix #2%systemdrive%\hotfixes\kb828028.exe /Q /O /N /Z >>%systemdrive%\hotfix.log

this should give you a log called hotfix.log on your system drive, you can check the log to see if theres any errors? The only thing to remember when piping to a text file is that a single > will overwrite anything already in the file and a double >> will add onto the file (therefore, first thing to log use > everything else after use >>)

Am I correct with this? I've never had to debug my svcpack.inf installations as it always has worked good...

This is my actual svcpack.inf (I do not use a batch file like above example):

[Version]Signature="$Windows NT$"MajorVersion=5MinorVersion=1BuildNumber=2600
[setupData]CatalogSubDir="\I386\SvcPack"
[ProductCatalogsToInstall]
[setupHotfixesToRun]q330994.exe /Q:A /R:Njs56nen.exe /Q:A /R:Nmdac.cmdq823182.exe /Q /O /N /Zq824105.exe /Q /O /N /Zq824141.exe /Q /O /N /Zq825119.exe /Q /O /N /Zq826939.exe /Q /O /N /Zq828028.exe /Q /O /N /Zq828035.exe /Q /O /N /Zq828741.exe /Q /O /N /Zq831167.exe /Q:A /R:Nq832894.exe /Q:A /R:Nq835732.exe /Q /O /N /Zq837001.exe /Q /O /N /Zq837009.exe /Q:A /R:NWMP9MM2.exeq828026.exe /Q /O /N /Zqchain.exeDX9NTopk.exe

[nmepar]

Brilliant!

Thats pretty much exactly what i needed to know. I'll attempt that now.

Thanks Crusher!