About the unattended timeline...

[mrjojo]

Hi all,

I'm wondering something about the unattended installation of XP... :

According to the MSFN method, (most) hotfixes have to be installed using the svcpack.inf file, which is launched at T-13; what happens if, for example, WMP is not installed yet at T-13 ? And there is a WMP hotfixe in the svcpack ??

What happens if an application is not installed yet, and I apply some hotfixes ?

This is what, for my unattended CD, I put everything (applications, hotfixes, registry tweaks, and so on...) in .batchs launched by the [GuiRunOnce] section of the winnt.sif (except the creation of users, of course, via the cmdlines.txt)

What do you think about my method ? Iam wrong ?

Thank you !!

MrJojo

[[BM]Crusher]

you are not wrong... no one is really wrong if their method actually works and things install correctly...

the way I do it though, is for directx9 and media player 9, they get installed through the svcpack.inf, before the appropriate hot fixes have been installed..

I'm using the OEM Preinstall Kit (OPK) versions of directx 9.0b and media player 9 which are being hosted on the MSFN site you can find them in the unattend xp guide (the media player 9 pack has movie maker 2 as well)

still.. your way is correct if it works

[Aaron]

The way I do it in svcpack.inf:

WMP9MM2.exeKB828026.exe /Q /N /Z /O

As you can see, the WMP9 hotfix is being installed after the installation of the WMP9 OPK.

[Alanoll]

hotfixes have to be installed using the svcpack.inf file

They don't have to be.....

but security wise, it is better to install them at SVCPACK.INF

at that point there is no internet connection so you can't get infected by the lastest viruses/holes that are fixed by that patches.

You can install the hotfixes when ever you want...just up to you.....

[big_gie]

I'm installing hotfixes at t-12, with xplode launched by cmdlines.txt.

I'm installing programs before hotfixes.

Alanoll: you say that no connection is made at t-13, do you know where it gets connected for the first time?

That is a really wise idea to install antivirus/firewall/hotfixes before the first connection: I was infected twice last year like this!

[mrjojo]

Ok, thank you very much, so I keep on using my method ! (I think it's quite easy to update my CD, just a few added lines in the hotfixes.cmd for example...)

Oh, and I don't have a broadband connection, just a poor 56k modem, I cannot be infected as soon as XP is installed ! (perhaps the olny advantage of a non-permanent connection... )

Mrjojo

[Alanoll]

@mrjojo:

I don't know if you're lucky or not

@big_bie:

I believe its at first start up. Before RunOnce keys are processed. If you think about it....OOBE has to have a connection to register Windows. But there isn't an active connection during install. That's what I've read though on the microsoft website, and they've been wrong a couple of times.