help what am i doing wrong

[wonkanoby]

im trying to add applications

i have made my start.cmd

and on a spare pc i have tested it and the applications i made using InstallRite

on the spare pc i create on c the folder INSTALL and inside it PROGRAMMES

i then add start.cmd inside this folder click on it and it installs them all

am i putting start.cmd in the wrong place when i make the full install

i have added to my WINNT.sif the following

[GuiRunOnce]

%systemdrive%\INSTALL\start.cmd

please help me

please dont just point me to this

http://unattended.msfn.org/

as ive read and reread it a million times

[MCT]

did u put the install folder inside $OEM$ ? like it says 2 do?

EDIT: u also need the appropriate function in your winnt.sif file for the $OEM$ 2 work, look in ref.chm

regards

[wonkanoby]

well ive cracked this programme installing lark

get InstallRite

http://www.epsilonsquared.com/anonymous/InstallRite25.exe

your best having a second pc with an nforce board

but at a push a spare drive and burner will do

do a clean install of xp on another drive

install InstallRite

now install your programme

but use InstallRite to do it

pick the bit at the top looks like a lightening bolt

browse to the programmes exe and it will install it

click all the next bits etc and finish as normal

afterwards InstallRite will pop up again

click next and you will get to a bar says finish

dont click that now

look up and you will see a button says make an install kit

make sure the name you use here is small less than 8 letters

the last screen has a bit were you can tick to force them not to reboot if the installer wants in,and a force silent install

tick them as the batch file will reboot the pc after all are installed

trick

if with say nero you want it to install all registered ready to run

use nero now and insert your registration details

now uninstall it

delete the kit you made before

reinstall nero

this time it will pick up on your previous registration

save this one as a kit to use

do this for all your programmes you want to use

and you can test them as well at this stage on another clean install

now you need to make start.cmd

use note pad

here below is my current one as an example

you need to edit yours to reflect the name of your install kits

....................................................................................................

.......

CLS

@echo off

TITLE Windows XP SP1 - Unattended Installation

ECHO.

ECHO Over the next few minutes you will see automated installations

ECHO of various sofware applications, windows updates, and registry

ECHO tweaks being implemented. The computer will restart automatically

ECHO once the whole process has finished!

ECHO.

ECHO Starting installation of Applications

ECHO.

ECHO Installing Ad-aware 6 Professional

ECHO Please wait...

start /wait %systemdrive%\INSTALL\SOFTWARE\Ad-aware.exe

ECHO.

ECHO Installing EasyCleaner

ECHO Please wait...

start /wait %systemdrive%\INSTALL\SOFTWARE\EasyCleaner.exe

ECHO.

ECHO Installing PerfectDisk

ECHO Please wait...

start /wait %systemdrive%\INSTALL\SOFTWARE\PerfectDisk.exe

ECHO.

ECHO Installing WinRAR3.4B1

ECHO Please wait...

start /wait %systemdrive%\INSTALL\SOFTWARE\WinRAR3.4B1.exe

ECHO.

ECHO Installing SpeedFan 4.13

ECHO Please wait...

start /wait %systemdrive%\INSTALL\SOFTWARE\SpeedF.exe

ECHO.

ECHO Installing Nero63117

ECHO Please wait...

start /wait %systemdrive%\INSTALL\SOFTWARE\Nero.exe

ECHO.

ECHO Installing NvMixer

ECHO Please wait...

start /wait %systemdrive%\INSTALL\SOFTWARE\NvMixer.exe

ECHO.

ECHO Restarting the PC in 1 minute...

shutdown.exe -r -f -t 60 -c "Windows XP will now restart in 1 minute"

ECHO.

ECHO Deleting Temp Installation Files...

RD /S /Q %systemdrive%\INSTALL

EXIT

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.......

now assuming you allready are installing your drivers you will

have made your folders as here

http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/oemfolders.htm

now copy this $OEM$ to your xpcd file your building the iso in

note my Install file is INSTALL in the above

inside the INSTALL folder i have another folder called SOFTWARE

Put all your install kits and start.cmd into SOFTWARE

now i assume you have allready made a WINNT.sif file thats in your

I386 folder well now you need to add this to the bottom of it

[GuiRunOnce]

%systemdrive%\INSTALL\SOFTWARE\start.cmd

now make the iso then burn it

and this lot should all install fine

for this i have been using nLite 0.97

http://nuhi.msfn.org/

using nLite 0.97 ,the information in this thread,the bit above

i now have an xp install cd with 2149 sp2 on it

a load of crap like messanger ,unneeded drivers etc removed from it

and the 6 bits of software listed thats less than 400mb

so i will be making more install kits later to fill up the cd

if you wonder why NvMixer is in the list

its because using the drivers way it never installed fully for me

it was in the drivers file on c but i still had to run its installer

but it does now

[Alanoll]

and the point of this was what?

It's jsut ramblings to me honestly. The point of all this was what? telling people how to create a new package with InstallRite? There's already stuff on that.

Telling people how to make a START.CMD? Already there too.

Telling people what you did? Congrats to you for getting it working

But serious, what was the point. I found that the most annoying thing, was all your line breaks, in the middle of the sentences no less. You also neglected to use CODE tags, like it says to in the rules, and that I've reiterated in the sticky entitle "Just alittle reminder"

Also, why in the world would you want to recreate ALL of your setups using InstallRite when you can use their OWN native installers?

[MCT]

also.. installrite does have some slight drawbacks