Possible fully silent installation with pre-set *.ini file ??? (Page 2 of 2)

Hi ! OverFlow:

Your new version works fine that all required drivers (including internal Card-reader) are installed.
But the applications in the cd/dvd are not installed from RunOncEx.cmd due to dvd-rom drive label changed after 1st reboot (while PC with cardreader). So pc can't find the DVD rom to install all the other Applications calling from RunOnceEx.cmd (expected to install them from DVD by the RunOncEx.cmd).

For PC without card-reader, it works perfectly (both drivers and applications by fully UA install).

Last edited by swbchen (2008-10-19 00:24:23)

Hi! OverFlow:

Your scrip work fine.
You mean your script will keep the cd/dvd rom drive labels after ist reboot. So all applications calling from your script should work with the original CD/dvd label ??? Applications calling from RunOnceEx.cmd fail wihle pc with interbal Card-reader and USB-devices!!!!

And it needs to slipstream again in this way ????

I will try your suggestion, hope it works (including USB-devices).
Thank you.

Last edited by swbchen (2008-10-20 02:22:43)

It is not possable to avoid a drive letter search after the initial reboot (in your case)
because the way your drive letters change we also can't do something simple like searching z~a instead of a~z
(which is the simple and obvious choice) because sometimes your ODD is first and sometimes it is last...

you can not perform a drive letter search because your bios will not allow us to correct for your issue.
- disabling the card readers is (should be) a bios function-
initialy assigning them in the same order as the OS will after the install may not be possable

not being able to disable is a BUG in the BIOS of the laptop and as such needs to be corrected by them...
they may even have a work around they recommend
- certainly they have to preload them at the factory
  How do they do it??? 
Perhaps you can talk to someone in the config shop.

options

BIOS Fix from OEM

Insider secret from OEM config shop

Copy all files to laptop HDD during textmode
$OEM$\$1\  is copied to %SystemRoot% at textmode
Hint M1 uses $OEM$\$1\ folder...
useing this method your files will always be at %SystemRoot% and no drive letter search is needed at all...

put a disk in the readers!!!

There is a way to specificaly assign drive letters during the install but i do not remember the details...
It was somewhat complex.
It was somthing like - seeding a file that is normaly created during the install. that file containing a cache of the currently assigned drive letters. (hack the OS)

I dont know how much you make an hour but a new laptop that works is starting to look cheap LOL

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I see a few things i would make cleaner... like this

for %%i in ("%DPLoc%\winxp\2008\*.exe") do start /wait /high %%i /passive /Nostart
start /wait "%DPLoc%\winxp\2008\vb\VB6-KB946235-x86.exe" /Q
"%DPLoc%\install\_Antivirus\NAV\102\Symantec AntiVirus.msi" /QB
"%DPLoc%\Install\_av\_video\wmp\wmp11.exe" /Q
"%DPLoc%\Install\_av\decode\cole2k\SilentFiles\CPASetup.exe" /S

Long file names almost always need to be in Quote's...

the for line might need to be
for %%i in ("%DPLoc%\winxp\2008\*.exe") do start /wait /high "%%i" /passive /Nostart

let me know if that gets you any closer

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