peejaygee Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 I followed the instructions to the letter (or so I thought), I have it all set up, testing it on VirtualPC, and it gets up to the batch command, and it opens a command window (cmd.exe equiv) and just sits there, until I type "exit" and press enter, and Office XP hasn't installed..Anybody have any ideas on this matter?the location is trying is start /wait "%systemdrive%\Install\Applications\Office XP\Cd1\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radimus Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 did you put in the updated setup.exe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHz Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 Is setup.exe even there? I use setuppls.exe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peejaygee Posted December 13, 2004 Author Share Posted December 13, 2004 There is a "SETUP.EXE" in the folder and it is 466KB in size Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prathapml Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 @peejaygeeEverything seems alright. The problem here, is that you have unnecessary quotes around the command. Run the command straight out - no need for quotes. The below should work:start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Applications\Office XP\Cd1\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritishBulldog Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 will that work without quotes?wont it mess up at 'Office XP' in the directory?try to rename the directory to OfficeXP and then use thisstart /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Applications\OfficeXP\Cd1\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-I find the best results if i dont have any spaces in my directory names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prathapml Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 @BritishBulldogYou're correct.Always try to avoid spaces in file/folder names - atleast for your uA CD. Then, if you don't want to avoid spaces, put the quotes only around the file-path. The switches should be independent of the quotes. Like below:start /wait "%systemdrive%\Install\Applications\Office XP\Cd1\setup.exe" TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peejaygee Posted December 14, 2004 Author Share Posted December 14, 2004 start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Applications\OfficeXP\Cd1\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-I Jiggled with my quotes and spaces, and now Sorted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prathapml Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 On the CD, "$OEM$\$1\Install\Applications\Office XP\Cd1\" is the folder that should exist - please confirm. The "Install" folder need *NOT* have a "$" character in its name!And about the $1 - whatever is in that folder will get copied to C:\ - so it has to be that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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