Doctor Trout Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 Right, just to check that I've got this right, if I put something in the $OEM$/$Progs folder, it'll be copied to the Program Files folder during install, yeah? Okay, next question, can I compress the files I put there? Or if I do, do I have to specify that I want them to be uncompressed during install?Also, where would I put shortcuts to be added to the start menu? Or is that not possible?And, last question, how would I add some shortcuts to the sendto folder?Sorry for the flood of questions. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bledd Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 (edited) OEM folders are copied as is, ie, don't get compressed..create a shortcut before hand, name it what you want, then copy it to here..$OEM$\$Docs\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\$OEM$\$Docs\username\SendTo (it might work to make a SendTo link in the All Users section, i remove SendTo so i don't know)what you could do is compress your program files folders with 7zip to make a 7z file, then use command line 7zip (7za.exe) during cmdlines or whenever to uncompress the file to program files.. thats what i do-also, this is nothing to do with nlite! Edited August 21, 2006 by bledd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Trout Posted August 22, 2006 Author Share Posted August 22, 2006 <<-also, this is nothing to do with nlite!>>Whoops - sorry about that. I was thinking that the OEM folder thing only worked with nLite - not an expert on unattended CDs, as you may have guessed!Thanks a lot for your help there (feel free, mods, to move this to the unattended section).<<what you could do is compress your program files folders with 7zip to make a 7z file, then use command line 7zip (7za.exe) during cmdlines or whenever to uncompress the file to program files.. >>Yeah, that sounds just the kind of thing I want to do! Does that take a long time to uncompress and copy, or is it fairly quick? I guess it depends on size and compression, but, I mean, say 100 megs compressed at ultra compression, is that going to take a couple of minutes, or longer?I'm also going to have to ask you - how do I write a command to unextract files from a 7zip file? I'm guessing I compress all my files that I want in Program Files into 1 7zip file and put that in $OEM$/$Progs (I'm assuming it would be better to compress all the files in one file, rather than all seperately). Then I put 7za.exe in $OEM$ with cmdlines.txt and then write the command in cmdlines.txt? But, sorry, you're going to have to help me with what to write - I'm not very good at these command things yet... Thanks a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T D Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 100 megs? Maybe... 1 and a half minutes? More?As to the last part, read this on DetachedProgram http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/v.../#guiunattendedMake a batch that calls 7za.exe and expands the files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bledd Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 (edited) i don't mind helping, since you're on the right track and just new to this, everyone is new at something somepoint http://www.7-zip.org/download.htmlthe 7zip command line version is there.. (7za.exe)if you place it in..$OEM$\$$\system32then you can call the program (7za.exe) without having to put a path in, because your pc looks at system32 as a default folder..so place all the files you want as you want them into $progs, then highlight all the folders in $progs, do add to 7z, ultra, click ok.. called it say programs.7z^delete the old contents of $progs, so you just have programs.7zthen to extract it the command would be..7za x programs.7z-if you look at the 7zip.chm file they give you, its got some help under 'commands' saying how to extract and compress. the extraction process is a LOT faster than the compression-personally i use runonceex.cmd to run my commands http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/31/also, checkout cmdow.exe if you put that into system32 folder, then add this to the top of each batch file you use, it'll hide it from view.. -worth checking to see if your batches work 100% before putting that in, or they'll just pause and you won't know why.. download link here.. http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdow/index.htmlcmdow @ /HIDcheers Edited August 23, 2006 by bledd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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