Respawning Command Window

[fillalph]

I am in the process is changing part of my method.

What I do is have an inf call a batch which resides in the folder along with the install file and reg file (if needed).

Here is the code to the batch file now:

cmdow @ /HID
@ECHO OFF

FOR %%i IN (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) DO IF EXIST %%i:\WIN51IP.SP2 SET TEMP=%%i:
SET CDROM=%TEMP%\$OEM$\Installs

start /wait "%CDROM%\common\alcohol\setup.msi /qb Reboot=ReallySuppress"
regedit /S "%CDROM%\common\alcohol\alcohol.reg"
EXIT

What happens is that the command window closes and reopens a new command window with the title "I:\$OEM$\Installs\common\alcohol\setup.msi /qb Reboot=ReallySuppress and the current directory is my starting directory.

Now, if I remove the quotes for the setup program it runs fine.

start /wait %CDROM%\common\alcohol\setup.msi /qb Reboot=ReallySuppress

Anyone have an idea why the quotes do that?

Thanks

]Bonkers[

[MHz]

Start /? will tell you why.

Not even sure why you are using Start /Wait as without waits by default anyway. This is what I would simply use.

msiexec /i %CDROM%\common\alcohol\setup.msi /qb Reboot=ReallySuppress

[ATM]

thats easy

u must know the command line interface or hoe commands work

the universal pattern is

executable prameter1 parameter2 parameter3 and so on

when u supply the name of the executable the only whole path must be in quotes not the parameters

so try this

start /wait "%CDROM%\common\alcohol\setup.msi" /qb Reboot=ReallySuppress

this will work

i m just stickin to basics. i dunno much of the stuff

but i m sure the above will help u now and future

[MHz]

thats easy

u must know the command line interface or hoe commands work

the universal pattern is

executable prameter1 parameter2 parameter3 and so on

when u supply the name of the executable the only whole path must be in quotes not the parameters

so try this

start /wait "%CDROM%\common\alcohol\setup.msi" /qb Reboot=ReallySuppress

this will work

i m just stickin to basics. i dunno much of the stuff

but i m sure the above will help u now and future

Did you read through the 1st post ? The 1st post states that the command that you show will fail. And do you know why, I will tell you since you did not do a Start /? as I stated in my last post. The parameter that has the 1st set of double quotes is the title for XP OSes and above.

To use Start /Wait you would have to do this:

start /wait "" "%CDROM%\common\alcohol\setup.msi" /qb Reboot=ReallySuppress

else have no spaces and use no quotes. Or you can do it the correct way with running msiexec directly.

[fillalph]

Thank you for your responses guys. I got it working. (I just finished my exam period and didn't even think of going /?).

]Bonkers[