Problems with Unattended Novell Client Install

[morrow]

I have been working on converting our imaging process over to RIS and have a problem that I have encountered when installing the Novell Client from cmdlines.txt. It just doesn't work. I followed the instructions of adding "%systemdrive%\install\applications\nw4.91.2\ACU.EXE /U /D:no" to cmdlines.txt, but the Novell client does not install. I checked the setuperr.log in Windows and see CreateProcess throwing error 2 when cmdlines.txt calls ACU.EXE. I have taken the same command and ran it manually after this fails and the client installs without problems. I am using Windows XP SP2 for creating the machine images (am wondering if this is why?) running RIS on Windows 2003 Server.

Any help with this is appreciated as I am relatively new to working with the unattended installs of Windows and have little experience with the internals of the Novell client and installation.

Thank you in advance,

Chris

[morrow]

Just to add to the earlier post, I have been playing with this more and am wondering if the prompt to run an EXE file is blocking the installation of the Novell client when installing from cmdlines.txt? I am using the following Reg hack (but this would not be active while cmdlines.txt is being run):

; Disable Security Warning Popup when Running Files

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download]

"CheckExeSignatures"="no"

"RunInvalidSignatures"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments]

"SaveZoneInformation"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations]

"LowRiskFileTypes"=".zip;.rar;.nfo;.txt;.exe;.bat;.com;.cmd;.reg;.msi;.htm;.html;.gif;.bmp;.jpg;.avi;.mpg;.mpeg;.mo

v;.mp3;.m3u;.wav;"

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I have tried several times to get the install to run and on one occasion there was nothing in setuperr.log and the Novell didn't create a log file, so I was unable to even determine what has been causing the Novell client to not install at this point.

The last time I tried installing Windows from RIS using my scripts, the Novell client did not install, but when I copied and pasted the command straight out of cmdlines.txt to the Run prompt, the client was installed without any problems. I did see CreateProcess throw error 2 in setuperr.log from trying to install the client from cmdlines.txt.

Thanks for any advice or tips you can give on getting this to work...

Chris