neophyte Posted October 7, 2003 Posted October 7, 2003 I had been privately discussing how to install WiMP 9.0 through the SVCPACK.INF method with AaronXP, and he mentioned that it would give an error regarding the System Restore service. He mentioned something about /DisallowSystemRestore as a switch for the installer program, but it didn't work.Is there any possible way to tell WiMP 9.0 to not set a system restore point?
neophyte Posted October 7, 2003 Author Posted October 7, 2003 Nm. I found what I was looking for.I should point out that not all of us here know how to use some of these switches (at least straight away).So to people simply telling others to do this, or do that, unless you definately know they know what their doing, please add a small summary of how to use the switch and what it does Cheers
neophyte Posted October 8, 2003 Author Posted October 8, 2003 Extract it to the SVCPACK folder, and in SVCPACK.INF, add in:setup_wm.exe /DisallowSystemRestore /Q:A /R:NThis should work, but I haven't gotten around to testing it yetI had tested MPSetupXP.exe /Q:A /R:N in SVCPACK.INF, but an error dialog popped up (but the installer did run).
RyanVM Posted October 8, 2003 Posted October 8, 2003 Out of curiosity, does WindowsUpdate tell you that WMP9 has to be installed still after a fresh install?
neophyte Posted October 8, 2003 Author Posted October 8, 2003 No idea. Once I'd seen that it had installed, I didn't particularly care to run Windows Update.
snooz Posted October 8, 2003 Posted October 8, 2003 This works...MPSetupXP.EXE /Q:A /R:N /C:"setup_wm.exe /DisallowSystemRestore /Q:A /R:N"
Bachus Posted October 8, 2003 Posted October 8, 2003 How about the .msi file that the Enterprise Deployment Pack generates?
neophyte Posted October 9, 2003 Author Posted October 9, 2003 This works...MPSetupXP.EXE /Q:A /R:N /C:"setup_wm.exe /DisallowSystemRestore /Q:A /R:N"I actually tried that within the SVCPACK.INF and it doesn't work.I'm quite confident that by extracting it, and leaving it in the SVCPACK folder, that it will work.I can't test the Windows Update at the moment, as I've been busy working on another issue.Will let you guys know asap.*Edit*Oh, as far as I've been told, .msi packages can't be installed using the SVCPACK.INF file, as the MSI service isn't running at the stage the .INF file is called.
Aaron Posted October 9, 2003 Posted October 9, 2003 That command doesn't work in svcpack because it doesn't like quotes. You can however put a batch file in its place and call out to the exe with the full command shown out by snooz.
neophyte Posted October 9, 2003 Author Posted October 9, 2003 Hrm. I might just do that instead *Edit*To do that, I would place the .cmd file in the SVCPACK folder, and in SVCPACK.INF I would need to add this:wimp9.cmdor:.\wimp9.cmdThe contents of wimp9.cmd would obviously be this:MPSetup.exe /Q:A /R:N /C:"setup_wm.exe /DisallowSystemRestore /Q:A /R:N"EXIT
Aaron Posted October 9, 2003 Posted October 9, 2003 Yep, using wimp9.cmd is enough, as long as that and mpsetupxp is in the svcpack folder.
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