hotfix batch for unattended installation

[webmedic]

doh microsofty in the house. Yea I do this stuff for a living so. I find it insteresting and I'm still working on the script to better it.

If the tools given did what we all needed then were would the fun be?

[webmedic]

also thanks for the nudging in the right direction so we could figure it out in the first place.

[Spheris]

You're welcome.

It's not the best method by any means or the most flexible (the MS OPK) but it does give a place to start. I know we're terrible at providing much in the way of good documentation

but we do make great marketing literature

[webmedic]

on a side note I finally in the last incarnation got that mdac hotfix to apply slipstreamed. I cant believe it worked. I have been playing with that thing for days.

[Spheris]

could you point me to which one it was, the thread got a little confused towards the end I counted 7 scripts along the way.

but not sure where others took up and yours left off.

[webmedic]

well i have not posted this one yet. I'm testing it first. I'm creating a cmd file and loading outside of the actaull install setting through that. I'm calling the cmd file in the svcpack.inf instead the of the hotfix itself and then the cmd file calls the hotfix directly and gives full paths for everything. That hotfix is very stinky about full paths.

[Spheris]

Fair enough, I did notice the q hotfixes were giving path trouble

its by design but easy enough to fix

you alter path in the extracted inf and change copyto target

[webmedic]

Now thats interesting i had not thought about altering the files in the hotfix to achive my ends. I was looking for a way to use the stock stuff as passing around modded hotfixes could cause problems for some people. Well at any rate it works like I have it now so I'm pretty happy with the results.

[Spheris]

Look at it this way, you're not done yet.

You'll find another part of it to tinker with.

I know I always do

So you'll have the idea to use for then if it needs it.

[webmedic]

thanks I'll keep that in mind. I'm pretty handy wiht the inf scripts also so it should not be to hard to work out. And I'm sure I'll need to use that method as I jsut noticed somebody wanting dx9b slipstreamed and at this point I'm thinking maybe to try a few other things.

[Spheris]

Medic, I'll recommend not slipstreaming 9b. It's been tried in house but only with limited success because the structure is registry wise much different from 8.1.

but if you have to give it at go

use the svcpack method which does seem to work so far

create a sub dir with a sub path in the matching dosnet and svcpack infs

and use the usual command switch

[webmedic]

thanks? I give it a go that way? Do you know will .net 1.1 sliptream also or is it better left alone.

[Spheris]

not possible to slipstream it, planned to be included in sp-3 as I know it right now

but no plans for a bundling thru sp-2

the msi can be unfolded but the dlls and reg entries it creates as well as the account it creates are done with the OS up for now. It is an addon for now

but 2.0 is being built for ground up installs due Q-3 '04

[Spheris]

There might be an alternate, but I'd have to talk to someone in the server group tomorrow to know for sure.

But as I understand it, its rolled into 2k3 in the same way as the svcpack method right now, just using an inf, same as the inf your using for addon apps

[webmedic]

OK that saves some time. Thanks. Well I'm off for tonight. Thanks for the input and Before I go for tonight I'll start a thread with my installer the way it looks now. The inf files are cleaning it up really nice.