Making A Unattended Windows CD

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Hi there ,

well i could use some help over here because i don't exactly know if i am doing right or wrong!

Maybe its because of the many ways but anyway i followed the Tutorial Creating a Unattended Windows Xp CD. Which is very helpfull and very handy but there are some little differences that i don't understand or that are not explained in the tutorial

Well this is wat i got from now on :

I created a winnt.sif without GUIRunOnce because i am going to use RunOnceEx

I copied the example that was shown in the tutorial ->RunOnceEx.cmd

Well there are commands that are linking to the prepare.cmd and cleanup.cmd , i created those and copied the example as well. I'll have to edit them later because i am going to use other software and yes ofcourse there are new versions of software. Well how do i know when i have to use a cleanup.cmd because in the example there's only a command linking throw cleanup.cmd in the end of the script....

And how do i have to use cmdlines ? because in the example there is only a link throw RunOnceEx.cmd. I could use it like that and edit RunOnceEx? Thats all ?

[<SparTacuS>]

Don't worry too much (at all) about your cleanup.cmd for the time being.

It is only a simple batch file that you use as the very last thing to tidy up

redundant files, shortcuts etc. Don't even use it until you have built and

double tested EVERYTHING else and are sure that everything is working.

BTW - Far the best tutorial/Guide to folow is MSFN Guide;

MSFN Unattended Guide

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This seems to be the entries in Cmdlines.txt that you would want. If you make a RegTweak.reg file then you want to insert that before the users.cmd so everyone will get their RegTweaks.

[COMMANDS]
"users.cmd"
"RegEdit /s autologon.reg"
"RunOnceEx.cmd"

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Well thanks!!!!

Have a look at this :

SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx

REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Installing Applications" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\005 /VE /D "Adobe Reader 6" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\005 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\install\AdobeReader6\AR6.msi /qn" /f

Correct me if i am wrong but this example says that Adobe Reader is the first program that is going to be installed from the cd right ? And a lot people ask about the msi file's , the most of mine are .exe files and are just like windows installer... it doesn't matter if you have the right application switch ? it should just work ?

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Someone Please ?

Well i'll have a start today and we will see where it ends, ill keep you guys up with information or questions

Thanx anyway for reading and answering

[<SparTacuS>]

Your file looks ok at a quick glance - other than;

It references your Adobe file on the "%systemdrive%" which is the drive where Windows is installed (usually C:) but you say it is the first app installed "from the CD" - where is it installing FROM? If C: then it needs to be copied over from the $OEM dir to C:\install, if you are not using this method (ie installing direct from CD) then your file needs someway to "find" the CD drive.

Incidently, if you go

HERE

RyanVM has prepared (among many other great things) totally switchless MSI packages of Adobe Reader 6 & 7.

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Thnx <SparTacuS>

I will soon post my RunOnceEx.cmd so people if they want can have a look for me