Followed the tutorial all the way through but at the end it says:

This command will perform a silent installation of Office XP using the Unattended.MST file you created in the Custom Installation Wizard to set your customized options. But we don't want to use the exact command shown above as this wouldn't exist when installing from a CD, so change:

TRANSFORMS=C:\XPCD\$OEM$\$1\install\Applications\OfficeXP\Unattended.MST /qb-

to...

TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-

but for some reason it wont let me edit the line

C:\XPCD\$OEM$\$1\install\Applications\OfficeXP\Unattended.MST /qb-

the text just won't delete.

Any suggestions????

edit the line in your install batch file to read

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\OfficeXP\setup.exe TRANSFORMS="%systemdrive%\Install\Applications\OfficeXP\Unattended.MST" /qb-

That right there should work as the C:\XPCD\$OEM$\$1\install\Applications\OfficeXP\setup.exe

and the C:\XPCD\$OEM$\$1\install\Applications\OfficeXP\Unattended.MST copy over to the C:\install\Applications\OfficeXP folder when oemprecopy copies the files to the hard drive

edit the line in your install batch file to read

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\OfficeXP\setup.exe TRANSFORMS="%systemdrive%\Install\Applications\OfficeXP\Unattended.MST" /qb-

That right there should work as the C:\XPCD\$OEM$\$1\install\Applications\OfficeXP\setup.exe

and the C:\XPCD\$OEM$\$1\install\Applications\OfficeXP\Unattended.MST copy over to the C:\install\Applications\OfficeXP folder when oemprecopy copies the files to the hard drive

I followed the guide, Renamed the path of the Unattended.MST file, yet Office wont do a silent install.

I used

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\OfficeXP\setup.exe TRANSFORMS="Unattended.MST" /qb-

When Office starts to install it is gathering info or something, then quits to the desktop, no message or error...

Tried the other code from above...same thing.

1. did u use office shrink?

2. why wont it let u rename Unattended.txt to unattended.mst?

Unattended.txt rename it to Unattended.mst

place the unattended.mst in your officeXP source Folder

prog[pn]=['Microsoft Office 2003 Professional']

cmd1[pn]=['%CDROM%\\Software\\Office2003\\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-']

rega[pn]=['%cdrom%\\Software\\Office2003\\office.reg']

dflt[pn]=['yes']

cat[pn]=['Microsoft Office 2003 Suite']

pn++

I used the office XP recource tool thingie from MS

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

change the text above to

TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-

yep, that one. Did everthing like i suposed to. the Unattended.MST and the setup.exe are in the same place. used the code like I'm supposed to yet it just will not work.

-edit-

I did the renaming already, won't work. tried changing the path, doesn't matter

does everything else in your batch file install correctly?

if so, can you post the contents of your batch file?

As requested.

All apps install fine (it isn't unattended yet, that is a matter I will attent to later).

CLS
@ECHO OFF
TITLE Apps Installatie
ECHO.
ECHO.
ECHO.
ECHO Installeren van Office XP
ECHO Bezig...
start /wait %systemdrive%\install\OfficeXP\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=%systemdrive%\install\OfficeXP\Unattended.MST /qb-
ECHO.
ECHO Installatie van AVG AntiVirus 7 bluild 289
ECHO Bezig...
start /wait %systemdrive%\install\avg70free89.exe /s
ECHO.
ECHO Installatie van Adaware SE Personal 1.05
ECHO Bezig...
start /wait %systemdrive%\install\AdAwareSEpersonal1.05.exe /s
ECHO.
ECHO Installatie van Total Commander 6.03a
ECHO Bezig...
start /wait %systemdrive%\install\TCmd603a.exe /s
ECHO Registreren van Total Commander
start /wait %systemdrive%\install\TCmd603aC.exe /s
ECHO.
ECHO Installatie van Windows Mediaplayer 10
ECHO met media codecs: ffdshow 20041012, WM9 codec
ECHO Bezig...
start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Mp10Setup.exe /s
start /wait %systemdrive%\install\ffdshow20041012.exe /s
start /wait %systemdrive%\install\WM9codecs.exe /s
ECHO.
ECHO Installatie van Mozilla Firefox 1.0 met Java en Flash
ECHO Bezig...
start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Firefox_10PR.exe /s
start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Java.exe /s
start /wait %systemdrive%\install\flash7.exe /s
ECHO.
ECHO Installatie van Logitech software voor Toesenbord en muis
ECHO Bezig...
start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Keyboard222.exe /s
start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Mouseware9791.exe /s
ECHO Installatie van diverse utilities: 
ECHO Acrobat Reader, Daemon Tools, WinRAR  
ECHO Aida32 Enterprise Edition 3.93, WinAmp 5.05
ECHO Bezig...
start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Acrobat601.exe /s
start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Daemontools344.exe /s
start /wait %systemdrive%\install\winrar.exe /s
start /wait %systemdrive%\install\AIda32EE3.93.exe /s
start /wait %systemdrive%\install\winamp.exe /s
ECHO.
ECHO.
ECHO.
ECHO Toepassen registertweaks...
regedit /s  %systemdrive%\install\RegHacks.reg

*edit*

Tried to put "%systemdrive%\install\OfficeXP\Unattended.MST" in qoutes, without qoutes, just "Unattended.MST" yet all of that doesn't seem to make a difference.

Did you make the source dir for Office XP an adminstrative Install Point ?

Asfar as my knowledge goes this is needed for Office XP.

I've had the same problem a few times in the past with various causes.

- Path too long (we used this over the network by using unc paths .. solved this by mounting the unc path to a drive letter and running the mst from there.

as you are using localdrives i doubt this is your problem.

- corrupted mst, for some vague reason the mst just didn't work. recreating the mst solved the problem.

- quoted the lines (see example)

@ECHO OFF

TITLE Microsoft Office XP Professional UK

ECHO Installing Microsoft Office XP Professional UK

ECHO Please wait ...

start /wait "\\path\to\source\microsoft office XP UK\setuppro.exe" "TRANSFORMS=\\path\to\transform\office-xp.MST" /qb-

EDIT : Try to run this manually from cmdline to see what the error is that makes the installer quit to desktop

/EDIT

Hope this is of any use

This is the exact line I use, which works fine:

start /wait C:\Apps\OfficeXP\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Custom.MST /qb-

You shouldn't have to put quotes around the MST part.

This wouldn't have anything to do with the MST file ("unattended") being longer than 8 characters, would it? Probably not, but I'm just taking a stab in the dark.

Okay, it works. I made another unattended install with the MS Office Recoure Toolkit, wrinting a new unattended.MST

I use

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Office\setup.exe TRANSFORMS="%systemdrive\install\Office\Unattended.MST" /qb-

Works like a charm now.

hmm, i got same problem. so did you just create new .mst and it worked? fonsb?

hmm, still doesn't work after creating MST file again

*btw i used office shrink*

and i just tried to install it manually through setup.exe .. but the installation won't complete because it reports missing files... could this be the reason?

hmm, i got same problem. so did you just create new .mst and it worked? fonsb?

yeah, just did everything like I did before and for some reason it works now.