SVCPACK.INF

[cy.]

Hello,

Is it necessary to install catalogs?

the example on the unattended guide does not install catalogs but ones on the microsoft website does.

[Version]
Signature="$Windows NT$"
MajorVersion=5
MinorVersion=1
BuildNumber=2600
[SetupData]
CatalogSubDir="\i386\svcpack"
[ProductCatalogsToInstall]
KBArticleNumber.cat
[SetupHotfixesToRun]
KBArticleNumber.exe /options

[ProductCatalogsToInstall]

KBArticleNumber.cat

[Alanoll]

no catalogs are installed, because they're installed ith the hotfix installer. The one on the Microsoft site is probally after using /integrate as /integrate replaces some files in I386 and teh CAT file allow Setup to verify that they've been signed.

[cy.]

i don't know..

/integrate option seems to be doing the exact same thing as if i were using svcpack method described in the guide.

the option creates svcpack folder within i386 and then copies catfiles along with hotfix installers to the folder. it replaces svcpack.in_ with svcpack.inf too.

so i'm not really sure if the /integrate option really replaces the files in i386.

anyway... i went with the instructions described in the guide, used svcpack method.

after the installation, i opened log files that hotfixes left in my windows folder.

all of them had a error message saying that the installer wasn't able to locate catalog files..