Hey first post, im new to the forum but ive done a few unattended installations and i wanna share something i havnt seen around the forum and i thought was pretty useful.

If you have a second HDD or second CD-Rom or even a USB flash drive with this code u can have applications that dont fit on the first cd on these and have them install from that. It'll look for start.bat on each drive and if it finds it it'll run it. This is useful if u are always changing the applications u want installed but dont wanna create a new installation CD each time, all u have to do is put the new applications on that drive and update the start.bat, no need to update and reburn the installation CD.

@IF EXIST A:\start.bat set DRIVE=A:
@IF EXIST D:\start.bat set DRIVE=D:
@IF EXIST E:\start.bat set DRIVE=E:
@IF EXIST F:\start.bat set DRIVE=F:
@IF EXIST G:\start.bat set DRIVE=G:
@IF EXIST H:\start.bat set DRIVE=H:
@IF EXIST I:\start.bat set DRIVE=I:
@IF EXIST J:\start.bat set DRIVE=J:
@IF EXIST K:\start.bat set DRIVE=K:
@IF EXIST L:\start.bat set DRIVE=L:
@IF EXIST M:\start.bat set DRIVE=M:
@IF EXIST N:\start.bat set DRIVE=N:
@IF EXIST O:\start.bat set DRIVE=O:
@IF EXIST P:\start.bat set DRIVE=P:
@IF EXIST Q:\start.bat set DRIVE=Q:
@IF EXIST R:\start.bat set DRIVE=R:
@IF EXIST S:\start.bat set DRIVE=S:
@IF EXIST T:\start.bat set DRIVE=T:
@IF EXIST U:\start.bat set DRIVE=U:
@IF EXIST V:\start.bat set DRIVE=V:
@IF EXIST W:\start.bat set DRIVE=W:
@IF EXIST X:\start.bat set DRIVE=X:
@IF EXIST Y:\start.bat set DRIVE=Y:
@IF EXIST Z:\start.bat set DRIVE=Z:
@IF EXIST %DRIVE%\start.bat GOTO EXISTS
ECHO.
ECHO Additional application installer not found
GOTO NOTEXISTS
:EXISTS
ECHO Aditional application installer found
CALL %DRIVE%\start.bat
:NOTEXISTS

Its tested to work but if anyone finds sumthing rong please contribute

Hope this helps someone

Edited March 4, 200620 yr by ToCsIcK

Here your code made a lttile smaller

@Echo Off && CLS && Mode 75,5 && Color f3 && Title Extra App Install
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\start.bat set DRIVE=%%i

ECHO. && ECHO Additional application installer not found
ping -n 4 127.0.0.1>Nul
GOTO NOTEXISTS

IF EXIST %DRIVE%\start.bat GOTO EXISTS
:EXISTS
ECHO. && ECHO Aditional application installer found
ping -n 4 127.0.0.1>Nul
CALL %DRIVE%\start.bat
:NOTEXISTS
Exit

The VBS Way

Dim Act, Cmd1, Drv, Fso, strDrv :   Cmd1 = "start.bat"
  Set Act = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
  Set Fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
  Set Drv = Fso.Drives 

   For Each strDrv In Drv 
	If strDrv.IsReady = True Then 
	 If Fso.FileExists(strDrv & "\" & Cmd1) Then 
	  Act.Popup "Confirm Found At This Location : "  & strDrv & "\" & Cmd1, 7, "Confirm", 0 + 48
	  Act.Run(strDrv & "\" & Cmd1),1,True 
	  Exit For 
	 Else 
	  Act.Popup "Cannot Find This File On : " & strDrv & "\" & Cmd1, 7, "Missing", 0 + 48
	End If 
   End If 
  Next

O thnx, i was just trying to do that but i couldnt get it to work.

Edit: Just relized that once u call the other batch file you wont be able to install with that script beacause it wont know what drive it is (I explained that badly :S) anyway found a way to fix it

FOR %%i IN (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\start.bat SET DRIVE=%%i
@IF EXIST %DRIVE%\start.bat GOTO EXISTS
ECHO.
ECHO Additional Application Installer not found
GOTO NOTEXISTS
:EXISTS
ECHO Aditional Application Installer found
CALL %DRIVE%\start.bat %DRIVE%
:NOTEXISTS

then in start.bat on the drive you put, for example

@echo off
ECHO.
ECHO Installing Program
ECHO Please wait...
start /wait %1\applications\program\setup.exe -s

Edited March 4, 200620 yr by ToCsIcK

This will work also

@echo off
Set CD=%CD%
ECHO.
ECHO Installing Program
ECHO Please wait...
start /wait %CD%\applications\program\setup.exe -s

@ToCsIcK

hey friend its a nice idea. thanks a lot. but i want to add something more if it works;

you say if we have a second CD-Rom. but for instance i have only one CD-ROM. cant i delay start.cmd to work for a few time so that i can change the software CD ? or cant we add "try again" option ?

what do you think about it ? and how ?

no one reads anymore....

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=41821

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=8381

Those are the first two that come to mind. One is a sticky post at the top of the forum, and another can be found following the links in the ANNOUNCEMENT post at the top of the forum.

(Not to burst your bubble or anything, just thought i'd point out it's been mentioned before......LONG ago.....I've been here awhile )