not installing from $OEM$

[possy_99]

Hi, I've been up all night after finally getting round to learning how to add progs to the unattended installs, I've had a succesful attempt, although it did take some time. I was wondering if I could bypass the part where the installs for the applications in $OEM$\$1\insalls\ are copied to the hard disk. Basically I would prefer the setups not to be copied and ran from the cd itself. Is there a variable I can use in start.cmd to call from whatever cdrom the disk is in? I remember seeing %CDROM% in a batch file once, would this come in handy here? Any help appreciated

-EDIT-

..the very next post I came to answered this, lol - sorry lads

[Astalavista]

check your winnt.sif

do u hv this line ?

[unattended]

UnattendMode=FullUnattended

OemSkipEula=Yes

OemPreinstall=Yes

TargetPath=\WINDOWS

Repartition=yes

UnattendSwitch=yes

WaitForReboot=No

[MCT]

do this..

instead of using .\$OEM$ use .\Install .\ is the root of the cd

next, in your batch file (place it in .\install) & run it from commandlines.txt add this

cmdlines.txt goes inside $OEM$

[COMMANDS]
"..\Install\start.cmd"

Start.cmd

IF EXIST C:\File.ext Set CDROM=C:
IF EXIST D:\File.ext Set CDROM=D:

Repeat that step threw to 'Z' (replace file.ext with the name of a file on the root of your cddrive)

then just do something like

Start /wait %cdrom%\Install\someprogram.exe /switch

[totoymola]

I was wondering if I could bypass the part where the installs for the applications in $OEM$\$1\insalls\ are copied to the hard disk. Basically I would prefer the setups not to be copied and ran from the cd itself. Is there a variable I can use in start.cmd to call from whatever cdrom the disk is in?

Yes you can. Check this out. http://www.unattended.msfn.org/xp/runonceex_cd.htm

[Vel Straty]

Not related to ths thread but, I like your signature totoymola! I used to have many of them but disappeared somewhere.

[gunsmokingman]

Here try this

It will produce a run once for a install from where you can add 11 app to the install or just 6 app.

RunOnce 11 app to Install

RunOnce 6 app to Install

just run the cmd and it will leave the runonce on your desktop

or just save it and run it

Hope this helps

[totoymola]

Not related to ths thread but, I like your signature totoymola! I used to have many of them but disappeared somewhere.

Hahaha.. Just borrowed it from somewhere.