Running out of Space? No DVD Recorder?

[Aaron]

Are you running out of space on your CD to store more applications, and haven't got a DVD Recorder? You might have considered using a 2nd CD to install more of your favourite applications, but this would defeat the whole point of an Unattended installation as you would need to swap the CD over during the batch.

Solution: This only applies to some people - If you're like me, and have a 2nd partition or hard drive where you store your backups, videos, mp3s, setup files and this data hard disk/partition never actually needs to be formatted (or drive letter change), then you should be able to install more of your applications by storing them there when you've run out of space on your CD.

Instead of using:

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Application\setup.exe

You would use:

start /wait D:\Unattended\Applications\setup.exe

That is, if you create a new folder "Unattended" (or whatever name you want) in the root of your data hard disk/partition.

This is a perfect method if you only have one PC that you only will use the Unattended XP CD for, but it won't work if you plan to use the CD on other PCs as these other PCs will also require the same files/folders you placed in your data partition.

Hope this helps!

[Drewdatrip]

wow thats a pretty cool idea Aaron!

nice one

|Drew|