Unattended--How?

[jemicaca]

Hi there.

Im a newbie to this.

So far i have managed to create an unattended cd with my most current drivers and oemlogo.

My question is now: How do i add Msn Messenger and Nero Burning Rom and etc.

I cant´t figure out the guide on MSFN. The don´t say anything about where to put your software.

Can anyone please help??

[durex]

There are multiple ways to do this... the MSFN guide does in fact outline 2 methods on how to do this... using the $OEM$ folder or installing from the cd / batch file or RunOnceEx. Look around... its there. Also, simply use search for each program you want to install for the particular method on installing each.

[FrankE9999]

I would recommend installing from CD and not using the $OEM$ folder for your applications. Here is a link to how to do it from RunOnceEx (http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/runonceex_cd.htm). This method is much faster as you don’t have to copy all the files to the hard drive before installing them.

The next step is to create a silent install for the specific application you are installing. The following links explain how to do silent install for common well known applications.

http://www.appdeploy.com/packages/

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=12657

http://unattended.sourceforge.net/installers.html

If you can’t find information about doing a silent install for a specific application check out the following.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=17940

http://unattended.sourceforge.net/installers.html

You may want to compress your applications to reduce space. Most software you download comes as a single self-extracting executable file, which is already compressed. However to build a silent install you often need to extract the files. I recommend using 7-zip http://www.7-zip.org to build a self-extracting executable. If you use the command line version you can easily write a batch file to automate the process of compressing the files. Other applications such as Winrar and iExpress can be used to do the same thing.

There are also application cloning programs such as InstallRite which take a before and after snap shot of your systems. I would stay away from these as they can cause problems and don't always work.