[Unattended] Re: Unattended 4.0 fails to Install Perl
10 seconds wouldn't cut it for me. I had to use a 20 second delay on dual 3.6GHz Xeons (although I didn't try 11-19). Maintainer: Would it be worth adding a few more seconds onto this fix in perl.bat? Thanks for this tip! - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
[Unattended] RE: Unattended 4.0 fails to Install Perl
-Original Message- From: Patrick J. LoPresti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The next step, I guess, is to add something like this to the top of perl.bat: ping -n 120 localhost nul I only used a 10 second delay, and it worked like a charm. Maybe I'll try 5 seconds next time. I guess the dual Xeon's are just too fast. :-) Chris --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70alloc_id638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
[Unattended] Re: Unattended 4.0 fails to Install Perl
Johnson, Chris A -ND [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I only used a 10 second delay, and it worked like a charm. I hate random delays. But since we do not even know what we are waiting for, never mind how to wait for it from a cmd shell, I do not see any choice. I have added a 10-second delay to perl.bat for the next release. Thanks! - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
[Unattended] Re: Unattended 4.0 fails to Install Perl
Johnson, Chris A -ND [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Synopsis: Unattended installation using Windows 2000 Server goes great. Then it fails to complete the perl installation. Hm. I have installed 2000 Server using Unattended before, but it has been a while. It auto-logs on successfully (as Administrator), maps the Z: drive, and starts to bring up the installer, then it dies with this pop-up message: --- Windows Installer The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if you are running Windows in safe mode, or if the Windows Installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance. --- Hm. That almost sounds like the Windows Installer service is not started, or is not started YET... The only option is to click OK. The screen doesn't have Icons or a start menu yet. I click OK and it comes up fine (with Icons and Start Menu) and I see the Configure your Server screen. I tried re-adding the GuiRunOnce command to the RunOnce registry and rebooted. It worked fine. So it's just on the initial boot... Maybe the service just takes a while to fire up the first time. Could you open a cmd prompt after the failure and run z:\scripts\perl.bat by hand? Maybe it's looking for a directory that doesn't exist yet (unhappy there's no profile yet? temp directory?)? That is possible, but i would expect it be 100% reproducible. And I have definitely installed 2000 Server before. I will try again sometime in the next few days. Let me know if you have any ideas, I know WS2K isn't on the officially supported list, though. We certainly aspire to support it. It is very, very similar to Win2k. It has a few hotfixes unique to itself which we do not yet install, but otherwise it should work the same as 2k. - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Re: Unattended 4.0 fails to Install Perl
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Johnson, Chris A -ND [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let me know if you have any ideas, I know WS2K isn't on the officially supported list, though. We certainly aspire to support it. It is very, very similar to Win2k. It has a few hotfixes unique to itself which we do not yet install, but otherwise it should work the same as 2k. Just to chime in with another data point, we install w2kserver with Unattended all the time. win2kpro, win2kserver, and win2kadvserver all install the same for me. I even use the same $oem$ directory for all of them. Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
[Unattended] Re: Unattended 4.0 fails to Install Perl
Johnson, Chris A -ND [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I'm still not sure whether it's time dependent or not. Very frustrating though! The next step, I guess, is to add something like this to the top of perl.bat: ping -n 120 localhost nul This will sleep for two minutes before attempting to install Perl. As a last resort, perhaps we can arrange to fire up a cmd prompt while the Perl install is running. Although that is almost too ugly to contemplate. I wish we knew what it needed, exactly... - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
