Re: [Unattended] Unable to rename c:\netinst\todo.txt.tmp.xxx to to c:\netinst\todo.txt

2012-08-29 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Paul wrote: Hi Everyone, Anyone ran into the problem of todo.pl dying trying to rename todo.txt? Here is the error message I get: Unable to rename c:\netinst\todo.txt.tmp.1328 to c:\netinst\todo.txt: access is denied at Z:\todo.pl line 121 Z:\bin\todo.pl exiting with status 13 ; halting

Re: [Unattended] Unattended todo.pl working with Windows 7

2011-10-05 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Matt wrote: ... Not so long ago I had a corruptio on the hard drive where the Unattended files were stored so have had to start from scratch and rebuild everything.  Now I am having an issue with WIndows 7 when it calls the get_windows_language function in the todo.pl.  The error reports

[Unattended] Multiple-step setups, problem with visibility of new environment variables

2011-03-11 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, I have a problem concerning installation of Ingres RDBMS (for those of you who don't know it, it's something like MySQL...) client software. In the moment it looks like this. todo.pl %Z%\install\packages\ingresclientservicepack\setup.exe /silent todo.pl .reboot todo.pl

Re: [Unattended] Multiple-step setups, problem with visibility of new environment variables

2011-03-11 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
2011/3/11 Juanjo Pablos jua...@apertus.es The reboot is necessary because the Ingres-Client software defines a new environment variable II_SYSTEM (pointing to the Ingres installation path) and the Ingres-Client-Servicepack setup *must see* that variable in order to run through. If I

Re: [Unattended] Multiple-step setups, problem with visibility of new environment variables

2011-03-11 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
2011/3/11 Juanjo Pablos jua...@apertus.es El 11/03/11 15:26, Gerhard Hofmann escribió: So it was worth a trial but doesn't seem to solve the problem. I wonder if the with-env.pl script would be useful for my scenario, has anybody here used it and can give some examples? Could you please

Re: [Unattended] todo script without OS installation question

2011-02-28 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
2011/2/28 tovis mailer.to...@freemail.hu Hi, I been trying to implement the todo script without an OS installation by following this:   1) Log into factory-shipped machine as local administrator.   2) Open a cmd prompt.   3) net use z: \\ntinstall\install /pers:yes   4)

[Unattended] appsonly.bat, autolog.pl, problems with blanks in username / password

2011-02-15 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, with appsonly.bat / appsonly.pl I have the problem that it won't pass users and passwords containing blanks correctly to autolog.pl Example: user name: my admin password: my pwd Result: autologin will not be set correctly, only my will be passed as user... I have seen that autolog.pl

[Unattended] Adding ADDLOCAL=PERL_FEATURE to perl.bat to save time

2011-01-21 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, I found out that changing the line start /wait msiexec /qb /l* %SystemDrive%\netinst\logs\perl.txt /i %perl_msi% PERL_PATH=Yes PERL_EXT=Yes TARGETDIR=%ProgramFiles% in perl.bat into start /wait msiexec /qb /l* %SystemDrive%\netinst\logs\perl.txt /i %perl_msi% PERL_PATH=Yes PERL_EXT=Yes

Re: [Unattended] Adding ADDLOCAL=PERL_FEATURE to perl.bat to save time

2011-01-21 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
2011/1/21 Brett Royles br...@royles.co.uk Not sure what affect this will have on us, We use the perl that is installed to run scripts on the machines and students us it in lessons. I will do some testing next week and see if we have to do a re-installation of perl after the machine has

[Unattended] shortcut.pl, would like to have an option --show minimized

2011-01-21 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, this topic has been discussed a while ago: http://www.mail-archive.com/unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net/msg05469.html I downloaded patch_shortcut.pl_runexp.diff.gz and applied it to the current shortcut.pl Executing shortcut.pl shows: shortcut.pl [ options ] target

Re: [Unattended] Proposal for perl.bat: installing Perl into %ProgramFiles%\Perl instead of c:\Perl

2010-08-27 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Juanjo Pablos wrote: go for it. do not be shy.. as long as it working I am fine with it. OK, the change has been applied to the SVN Regards Gerhard -- Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer

Re: [Unattended] Office 2007

2010-08-27 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Am 24.08.2010 22:30, schrieb Martin Schulte: Hi, i want to install MS Office 2007 during an unattended installation. I cannot find a script for this. Is there still one existing or are there some problems? Thanks, Martin Hi Martin, http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8717775/office2007ent.bat

Re: [Unattended] Office 2007

2010-08-27 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Juanjo Pablos wrote: would it be possible at lease to added here: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/unattended/wiki/Scripts here it is: https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/unattended/wiki/Office2007 Regards Gerhard --

[Unattended] Proposal for perl.bat: installing Perl into %ProgramFiles%\Perl instead of c:\Perl

2010-08-23 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, could we append a TARGETDIR=%ProgramFiles% to the msiexec command in perl.bat? What do you think? For appsonly.bat that works, I'm not sure about OS + application installs. Regards Gerhard -- This SF.net

[Unattended] New appsonly.bat in the SVN, changed the way of detecting already installed Perl

2010-08-20 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, I have updated appsonly.bat in the SVN. Only a small change: in the past, I have checked for an already existing Perl installation like this: ... if exist %SystemDrive%\perl\bin\perl.exe goto runperlscript call %z%\scripts\perl.bat ... Now: ... assoc | find .pl=Perl NUL if errorlevel

Re: [Unattended] Starting post-install scripts independently of OS install

2010-06-25 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Jake wrote: Greetings, all. The webpage mentions that you should be able to do the post-install procedures (using todo.pl to install all of the packages and what not), but I cannot figure out how to invoke this manually. We are in the process of moving from XP to Windows 7, and so we've

Re: [Unattended] How to auto mount Z: after reboot using appsonly

2010-03-16 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Jean-Luc wrote: Hello Gerhard, Thanks for your answer ! So I've reconfigured my Samba share, and it works well now. Here is the Samba conf I've used : [global] (...) security = user map to guest = bad user guest account = nobody (...) [install] comment =

Re: [Unattended] How to auto mount Z: after reboot using appsonly

2010-03-15 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Jean-Luc wrote: Hello, It's my first message here, so a big thanks for the Unattended project ! I'm trying to use appsonly.bat with a Samba share that requires a password. When the computer reboot (when I install Windows Update or other), the Z: automount fails because it can't find the

Re: [Unattended] autolog.pl does not seem to work on Vista 64-bit systems

2010-02-05 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Juan wrote: what about this?: :: URL|ALL|http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/Windows/5.10/ActivePerl-5.10.1.1006-MSWin32-x86-291086.msi|packages/perl/activeperl-5.10.1.1006-mswin32-x86-291086.msi -set perl_msi=%Z%\packages\perl\activeperl-5.10.1.1006-mswin32-x86-291086.msi +::

Re: [Unattended] autolog.pl does not seem to work on Vista 64-bit systems

2010-01-07 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Juan wrote: what about this?: :: URL|ALL|http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/Windows/5.10/ActivePerl-5.10.1.1006-MSWin32-x86-291086.msi|packages/perl/activeperl-5.10.1.1006-mswin32-x86-291086.msi -set perl_msi=%Z%\packages\perl\activeperl-5.10.1.1006-mswin32-x86-291086.msi +::

Re: [Unattended] autolog.pl does not seem to work on Vista 64-bit systems

2010-01-06 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Am 13.08.2009 11:02, schrieb Gerhard Hofmann: Hi, obviously autolog.pl is not able to set an autologin on a Vista 64 bit machine. I assume that on 64 bit systems the corresponding registry keys are not in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Winlogon

[Unattended] Unsure about using general or devel list - any rules?

2010-01-06 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, when posting I'm often unsure whether to use gmane.comp.windows.unattended.general or gmane.comp.windows.unattended.devel Are there any rules for this? BTW, is there any IRC channel for the Unattended project and / or for software deployment issues in general? Regards Gerhard Hofmann

[Unattended] appsonly script, running Perl from a UNC path

2010-01-04 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
+ application installs. But I have not tested it. Regards Gerhard Hofmann -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day

Re: [Unattended] $product_name handling in todo.pl and recent Windows versions

2009-12-08 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Gerhard wrote: ... Because MS makes so many different editions of their products, it's very difficult to catch all in todo.pl Maybe it would be a good idea to do substring instead of exact string matches? Like this: $product_name contains Vista -- $os = vista $product_name

Re: [Unattended] $product_name handling in todo.pl and recent Windows versions

2009-11-29 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Juan Jose Pablos wrote: Gerhard, I make those changes, I will test it and commit soon: Would you mind test it on your enviroment as well to ensure that we are not breaking anything? Index: todo.pl ... Hello Juan, tanks for your help. I will happily test your changes, but I'm not very

[Unattended] $product_name handling in todo.pl and recent Windows versions

2009-11-20 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, a while ago I suggested to add some lines to todo.pl... elsif ($product_name eq 'Windows Vista (TM) Business') { $os = 'vista'; } elsif ($product_name eq 'Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate') { $os = 'vista'; } ... because otherwise my appsonly

Re: [Unattended] path and env variables after appsonly

2009-08-19 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Ben Cohen wroe: While you are making changes to appsonly.bat I'll point out a tiny patch to appsonly.bat we made in our environment. We wanted to call out to an external script prior to the invocation of todo.pl --go. The external script sets some machine environment variables. We've

Re: [Unattended] autolog.pl does not seem to work on Vista 64-bit systems

2009-08-19 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Gerhard wrote: Hi, obviously autolog.pl is not able to set an autologin on a Vista 64 bit machine. I assume that on 64 bit systems the corresponding registry keys are not in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Winlogon but somewhere else. Hi, on a

[Unattended] autolog.pl does not seem to work on Vista 64-bit systems

2009-08-13 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi, obviously autolog.pl is not able to set an autologin on a Vista 64 bit machine. I assume that on 64 bit systems the corresponding registry keys are not in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Winlogon but somewhere else. Any ideas? TIA Gerhard

[Unattended] Please put appsonly script into the CVS

2008-01-09 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, could somebody please add the appsonly script - see http://ubertechnique.com/unattended/appsonly - into the install/bin folder of the CVS repository? All needed files here: http://www.badongo.com/file/7233528 TIA Gerhard

Re: [Unattended] Unattended VM is available for download

2007-12-17 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, The unattened Virtual appliance is ready for download, you an find it at http://unattended.graywolfhosting.co.uk . Special thanks go out to brett for hosting this, and sorting out the problem with the html download links. You can download the VM as either

Re: [Unattended] unattended virtual appliance

2007-11-30 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
kerravon wrote: Hi All, I have almost finished putting a unattended VM together, (obviously with no os’s). Does any one have any idea’s where the best place to post it besides vmware’s appliance Market place. Thanks in advance for any help received. Regards kerravon

[Unattended] Removing an existing ODBC DSN?

2007-08-31 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, how could I do this untattended (registry hack, 3rd party command line tool, AutoIt Script...)? TIA Gerhard - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems?

Re: [Unattended] VMWare Appliance

2007-08-06 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Peter Varga wrote: Has anyone thought about creating and maintaining a VMWare Virtual Appliance (especially for ESX)? Hi Peter, creating some kind of Unattended appliance is a nice idea and I have serious interest in creating (or contributing to) such an appliance. The appliance should be

Re: [Unattended] VMWare Appliance

2007-08-06 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Mario Gzuk wrote: Hi! Gerhard Hofmann wrote: There are two types of appliances I could imagine: - creating a complete virtual machine with Linux + Samba + install share pro: very easy to get it running con: quite a big file to distribute, any minor change would mean

Re: [Unattended] nLite - a possible solution to the bootdisk troubles

2007-06-11 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Will Sheldon wrote: Gerhard, I guess you are refering to textmode driver support, the driverpacks program actualy slipstreams textmode drivers into drivers.cab, (not $oem$) so the effect is similar to nlite, but it covers many, many more drivers. Nlite was originally designed to remove items

Re: [Unattended] nLite - a possible solution to the bootdisk troubles

2007-06-11 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Will Sheldon wrote: I am using Mario's unattended-gui boot disk (v0.2), it is compatible with unattended and uses knoppix hardware detection under a gentoo base. you can download from http://unattended.technikz.de/index.php/Main_Page Sounds interesting, I will give it a try. I always

Re: [Unattended] nLite - a possible solution to the bootdisk troubles

2007-06-10 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Will Sheldon wrote: I have been using: http://driverpacks.net/DriverPacks/ with huge success. I use option 2, the OEM folder, and have added a line into the dosemu part of install.pl to copy the OEM folder to the C drive. Let me know if you want a copy of my modifications. Wil.

[Unattended] nLite - a possible solution to the bootdisk troubles

2007-06-08 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, like many others here, I had troubles using Unattended to deploy new machines because the Linux boot disk has problems with new stuff like SATA controllers and so on. So I gave nLite (www.nliteos.com) a trial and it works quite good. I can do a CD / DVD based OS-only installation this

Re: [Unattended] Boot-CD Problem

2007-04-26 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Nils Olav Fossum wrote: The linuxboot cvs is in a sorry state right now... Steffen Kaiser posted some patches to the devel list some weeks ago but they are not included to the cvs yet. I think they should go in. I have the current cvs + Steffens patches compiled here. Some quirks: -

[Unattended] appsonly script on Vista

2007-04-11 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, maybe some of you use my script appsonly.bat for application only deployment, see here: http://ubertechnique.com/unattended/appsonly I've done some tests on Vista, there are some things to consider here: 1. switch off user account control before using appsonly.bat 2. use this reg file

Re: [Unattended] Unable to map the netwoirk drive

2007-03-21 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Mary Kennedy wrote: Hello all, I am attempting to boot IBM machines with broadcom cards from the network. I was using 3coms universal driver and it would boot to the pxe menu, but I could not dhcp an ip-address. So I switched to using the b57 driver that is on the unattended web site.

Re: [Unattended] problem with installation of drivers

2007-03-12 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Götz Reinicke wrote: Hallo Sebastian, Sebastian Mellmann schrieb: Hello Götz, when you don't got a pc with scsi or something similar, there's no need for a driver in textmode. I've installed several dell optiplex GX60 without using textmode, because it's not necessary. Sure you've

[Unattended] Deleting a directory tree during Windows reboot?

2007-01-31 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, problem: installing a software package with appsonly.bat. In some cases an older version of the application is already installed and has to be wiped away before installing the new version. I tried to get rid of it with rmdir /q c:\path_of_installed_version but this sometimes fails

Re: [Unattended] Unattended install when you already have an OS

2007-01-18 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Julian Turnbull wrote: Hi Jon, Gerhard Hofman's appsonly.bat script, along with unattending itself, will do what you need. You can find it at http://ubertechnique.com/unattended/appsonly. You should be able to use a DVD - todo.pl only needs to write to the C:\netinst directory -

Re: [Unattended] Shut off or setup exceptions to Windows XP Firewall for silent installations

2006-12-03 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Eric J. Feldhusen wrote: Is there an automatic way to shut off or better, provide for exceptions to the Windows Firewall? For example, I want to install UltraVNC silently, but after install I can't reach it because the Windows firewall doesn't have an exception for it until I sit down at

[Unattended] .ignore-all-err patch for todo.pl (written by Paul)

2006-11-03 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, there were some recent postings about installers that will return non-zero return codes even if everything was successful. I have had this problem myself (mostly when running Win-XP-Hotfixes) and suggested a .ignore-all-err switch. Paul Griffith posted a patch for todo.pl sometime

Re: [Unattended] Spam on List

2006-10-09 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Alexander Stein wrote: Michael Pohl schrieb: Thunderbird, or other bayesian filter based programs, handel this boring messages great :-) Sure, but spam mails are totally unnecessary treffic. Especially on mailing lists, where everybody get this mails. It's better to delete this as early

Re: [Unattended] Suggestion for item 8.3 of the FAQ

2006-08-20 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Gerhard Hofmann wrote: Hi, this concerns [8.3] Can I use todo.pl to install applications without installing the OS? Could somebody please add a link to http://ubertechnique.com/unattended/appsonly ? Obviously has been done in the meantime, thanks! Regards Gerhard

Re: [Unattended] Have you tried AutoIT3 for programs without the necessary switches?

2006-07-17 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
David Wilkinson wrote: I find many programs lack the necessary switches or there is not way to install then with the configuration I want without doing it manually. In these cases I use the free AutoIt scripting language. http://www.autoitscript.com/ I also use this quite often. ...

[Unattended] Suggestion for item 8.3 of the FAQ

2006-07-03 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi, this concerns [8.3] Can I use todo.pl to install applications without installing the OS? Could somebody please add a link to http://ubertechnique.com/unattended/appsonly ? Thanks! Regards Gerhard Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff

Re: [Unattended] Tool netuser.exe can prevent password expiry for a single user

2006-07-03 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Andreas Heinlein wrote: Hello, the FAQ is incorrect in this point. You *can* turn off expiration of the password using net user: net user username password /EXPIRES:NEVER Works for us using Windows 2000 SP4, so it should work with XP also. Bye, Andreas Hi Andreas, from my own

[Unattended] Fixes to todo.pl for Windows Server 2003 R2

2006-05-18 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, to run appsonly installations on Windows Server 2003 R2, I had to add these lines to todo.pl: ---snip--- elsif ($product_name eq 'Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2') { $os = 'ws2k3'; } ---snip--- I haven't tested yet if it's possible to do an OS + application deployment

[Unattended] problem with mdac.bat

2006-04-12 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, have tried out mdac.bat script from the WIKI: http://ubertechnique.com/unattended/Microsoft_Data_Access_Components I get these (error) messages: Running: z:\packages\mdac\mdac.exe /q:a /c:dasetup.exe /q /n Can't spawn z:\packages\mdac\mdac.exe /q:a /c:dasetup.exe /q /n: No error at

Re: [Unattended] Appsonly by ssh

2006-04-06 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Patrick Schmidt wrote: Hi there, i hope this ist he right way of asking a question about an unattended problem. I want to run an appsonly-installation by ssh on a windows xp-prof machine. The installation of the perl-package runs without any problems. But the selection in the appsonly.pl

[Unattended] recorder for AutoIt

2006-03-23 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, having spent much time on scripting installers that do not offer silent switches, I have found this: http://www.autoitscript.com/cgi-bin/getfile.pl?../autoit3/scite/download/SciTe4AutoIt3.exe It contains a recorder for AutoIt, more info:

Re: [Unattended] Error in WS2K3SP1 updates file

2006-03-23 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Thomas Bendler wrote: Hello @all, after setting up a few test servers with unattended, I run into two problems during each install of WS2K3SP1. First, KB896423 seems to be depricated (it's allready in the SP1), second KB903235 results in a status 246. Installing it manually after the

Re: [Unattended] Error in WS2K3SP1 updates file

2006-03-23 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Paul Griffith wrote: Gerhard Hofmann wrote: ... As it is hard to find out any possible return value of an installer, it would be nice to have something like an .ignore-all-err directive. ... So .ignore-all-err would return true (0) if the command was successful and return fail 1 *only

[Unattended] feature request: .ignore-all-err

2006-03-21 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, I have some installers that require multiple combined .ignore-err directives to catch all possible cases. Why isn't there something like .ignore-all-err? Regards Gerhard --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a

Re: [Unattended] I'd like a forum for unattended - anyone interested?

2006-03-16 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Lars Becker wrote: I also got some replies by mail, that forum would be nice. I think i will set it up, if i get some more. Don't have much experience with discussion board software, but maybe there is some that supports mirroring from / to newsgroups? Anyway, I'd definitely use a

Re: [Unattended] I'd like a forum for unattended - anyone interested?

2006-03-14 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Lars Becker wrote: Hi, i'm using unattended and must say that i really like it! :-) You're right, unattended rocks! But i'm not convinced by this mailing list stuff... I think it's really complicated to search for specific problems. Probably you are not aware of the fact that this mailing

Re: [Unattended] Strange problem with Norton AV10 Corp script

2006-03-12 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
John Lilley wrote: I'm hoping someone could give me a bit of insight into this strange problem I've been experiencing. I have this script that runs to install our Norton AV10 Corp but it fails with status 82 (0) , but if I simply hit retry it works fine. Any ideas? todo.pl msiexec/i

[Unattended] Added some scripts to the wiki

2006-03-05 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, have added (and / or updated) some scripts to the WIKI: ActiveSync Ares AudioGrabber (updated) e-novative WAMP Partition Magic 8.0 (updated) True Image 8 Server (updated) Regards Gerhard --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML,

Re: [Unattended] How about Application deployment?

2006-02-14 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Adam Findley schrieb: Mari Cariapa wrote: So this is just good for windows? I'll need to install the applications separately? This is good for Windows AND application installs. We have been able to fully automate the process, and can install machines remotely Adam @Mari: For installation

Re: [Unattended] Wise InstallTailor - free MSI/MST transforms tool

2006-02-03 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
dg wrote: Hi all, Maybe everyone except me knows about this already, but I couldn't find it in the archives. I thought I'd post it because it took me a while to find any free tool that can generate MST transforms for MSI installers. Well, it turns out that Wise made their InstallTailor tool

Re: [Unattended] Korrection Install off applications

2006-02-01 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Bernhard Gmeiner schrieb: Hello again to all, Please excuse my wrong discription about installing applications. ... If I select office 2003, how can it be realized, that I will be asked for the productkey. Hi Bernhard, the standard way is to specify one working key for Office 2003 with

[Unattended] Silent switch for DivX 6?

2006-01-14 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, I want to install DivX Play Bundle 6.0. Download URL: http://download.divx.com/divx/DivXPlay.exe Unfortunately, the /S switch that worked for older version DivX521XP2K.exe, does not work. Any ideas? TIA Gerhard --- This SF.net

Re: [Unattended] Problem with Adobe Professional 7.0 - 7.0.5 update

2006-01-13 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Kaari Jakobi wrote: try this: :: run Ac705RdP_efgj.exe and extract Ac705RdP_efgj.msp from %Temp% :: the next line is on one line! msiexec /p Ac705RdP_efgj.msp /qb-! EULA_ACCEPT=YES REINSTALLMODE=omus REINSTALL=ALL REBOOT=ReallySuppress Hi, thanks for this helpful hint, my script is now

[Unattended] Problem with Adobe Professional 7.0 - 7.0.5 update

2006-01-12 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, I'd like to deploy Adobe Professional 7.0 + update to 7.0.5 Installation of Rel. 7.0 already works, bat file: :: OPTIONAL: Install Acrobat Professional 7 :: install Rel. 7.0 todo.pl .ignore-err 67 msiexec -i %Z%\packages\acrobatpro7\AcroPro.msi /qb-

[Unattended] appsonly script Rel. 2005.09.16

2005-09-29 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, I placed a new version of my appsonly script here: http://ubertechnique.com/unattended/appsonly Change: If install share cannot be mapped to z: it will show a list of already used network mappings and ask for a free drive letter. BTW, could somebody please update section [8.3] in the

[Unattended] New version of appsonly script

2005-09-28 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, I placed a new version of my appsonly script here: http://ubertechnique.com/unattended/appsonly Change: If install share cannot be mapped to z: it will show a list of already used network mappings and ask for a free drive letter. BTW, could somebody please update section [8.3] in the

[Unattended] How can I find out all supported parameters of an MSI package?

2005-09-16 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, is there any way to find out all possible msiexec switches for a given MSI package? Regards Gerhard --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and

[Unattended] self-updating installers, an approach

2005-09-13 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, I have some setups that should be updated very frequently because software authors will update programs very often. Examples: Skype, ClamWin. Here is my approach to fix the problem for Skype: ---snip--- todo.pl %Z%\packages\skype\skypesetup.exe /SILENT /NORESTART todo.pl wget

Re: [Unattended] Use %WINLANG% in Scripts

2005-09-08 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Rafal Welk wrote: I want to use the %WINLANG% in scripts, but i get no answer... like this: if %WINLANG%==DEU goto GERMAN but when i make that with todo.pl, like this: todo.pl echo %WINLANG% todo.pl --go I get a answer! Can i use %WINLANG% in scripts ? When running set command in a DOS

Re: [Unattended] Unattended

2005-07-13 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Steven Einwanger wrote: Hi, my name is stev and i tryin to create an unattended server. i have the following problem. I have allready made all things i need so i only need to type at the boot sequence the computername and all things installed so i come to the point where some programs should

[Unattended] appsonly script rel. 2005.05.31

2005-06-01 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, I have put a new version of my appsonly script here: http://www.ubertechnique.com/unattended/appsonly Improvements: - handle existing c:\netinst\todo.txt - hide the autologin password while it is being typed - better handling of install dir mapping Regards Gerhard

[Unattended] appsonly script rel. 2005.05.31

2005-06-01 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, I have put a new version of my appsonly script here: http://www.ubertechnique.com/unattended/appsonly Improvements: - handle existing c:\netinst\todo.txt - hide the autologin password while it is being typed - better handling of install dir mapping Regards Gerhard

[Unattended] universal silent switch finder

2005-05-23 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, maybe worth a trial if installer switches are unknown: http://unattended-sponsor.de/downloads/tools/ussf.rar Regards Gerhard --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in

[Unattended] Possible to do an Office 2003 pre-installation without specifying PIDKEY?

2005-04-28 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, is it possible to do an Office 2003 unattended installation without using the PIDKEY switch? My aim is to have Office 2003 installed on a number of PCs and let the user himself do all personalization on first Office start: - input of serial number - input of first name, last name,

Re: [Unattended] Possible to do an Office 2003 pre-installation without specifying PIDKEY?

2005-04-28 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Gerhard Hofmann schrieb: Hi all, is it possible to do an Office 2003 unattended installation without using the PIDKEY switch? My aim is to have Office 2003 installed on a number of PCs and let the user himself do all personalization on first Office start: - input of serial number - input

Re: [Unattended] Using a Windows machine as Unattended server

2005-04-28 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Krause, Richard schrieb: I thought i'd give Unattended a try and followed the step-by-step guide along until I came to the Populate packages directory part. As I'm using a Windows Server 2003 machine as Unattended server I realised that there must be additional configuration work done that is not

[Unattended] New version of appsonly script

2005-04-26 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, I have placed a new version of my appsonly script here: http://www.ubertechnique.com/unattended/appsonly Changes: 1. Creation of c:\netinst and c:\netinst\logs directories will now (always) work properly. 2. When setting autologin, script will now recognize current value of %USERDOMAIN%

[Unattended] New version of appsonly script

2005-04-25 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, I have placed a new version of my appsonly script here: http://www.ubertechnique.com/unattended/appsonly Changes: 1. Creation of c:\netinst and c:\netinst\logs directories will now (always) work properly. 2. When setting autologin, script will now recognize current value of %USERDOMAIN%

Re: [Unattended] Ad-Aware.bat fails in xp home

2005-04-20 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Phil Ellis wrote: Just an FYI for others: I know it's not part of the official scripts, but the ad-aware installer (from the wiki) fails to taskkill the help window and the full scan because taskkill is not part of the XP Home install. I grabbed pskill.exe from sysinternals and used that

Re: [Unattended] Setting Environment Vars that contain other environment vars

2005-04-15 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Matt Campbell wrote: I am trying to use setenv.pl to set some environment vars that contain other environment vars. For example, say I have %JAVA_HOME% set to my jdk, and I want to add %JAVA_HOME%\bin to my path. I would run setenv.pl PATH %JAVA_HOME%\bin;%PATH% Then, I install a new jdk in a

[Unattended] Enable / disable Windows File Protection from command line?

2005-04-15 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, I want to deploy TED Notepad (http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/notepad.php). Because this will replace standard notepad.exe, I need to: 1. disable Windows File Protection 2. run an installer with /S switch 3. re-enable Windows File Protection How can I do 1 and 3? TIA Gerhard

Re: [Unattended] Help with unattended

2005-04-12 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Chad Anderson schrieb: Hello, I am new to unattended and admire what you have done, I just need help in getting past one little problem. I can't seem to get past the point where the OS boots, after the OS files are copied. I am using the LINUX boot CD, from 4.6. I have my share all set

Re: [Unattended] Windows Services for UNIX

2005-04-08 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Gerhard Hofmann schrieb: Hi all, I want to silently install Windows Services for UNIX which can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/unix/sfu/default.mspx Running MSIEXEC.EXE /i SfuSetup.msi /qb works, but this will only do a typical installation and many

Re: [Unattended] basic Imaging

2005-04-07 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Stefan Kell schrieb: this scenario can lead to problems with HAL, the hardware abstration layer, especially with laptops. The first phase decides which HAL will be installed. I think your scenario is practically equal to using sysprep, which is faster. BTW, is there any way to influence which HAL

[Unattended] How to install Borland Database Engine?

2005-04-05 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, how can I deploy BDE silently? TIA Gerhard --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now.

[Unattended] How to create an ODBC DSN?

2005-04-05 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, I want to deploy an application that is based on CA-Ingres RDBMS. Installation of Ingres ODBC driver is no problem, but how can I add an ODBC DSN? TIA Gerhard --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid

Re: [Unattended] instsrv troubles - how to add a parameter to EXE file?

2005-04-01 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Stefan Kell wrote: parameters to services are in the registry, so you have to change the registry. The key is something like HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ServiceName. Navigate to the Parameters subkey. If there isn't one, you have to create it. There is a tool in the

[Unattended] Addons for Outlook

2005-03-31 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, I have a script outlookaddons.bat: :: OPTIONAL: Install some Outlook Add Ons :: :: script contributed by Gerhard Hofmann, [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: URl|ALL|http://www.contextmagic.com/ftp/ClickYesSetup.exe|packages/outlookaddons/clickyessetup.exe :: download http://www.gangl.de/downloads

[Unattended] Windows Services for UNIX

2005-03-30 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, I want to silently install Windows Services for UNIX which can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/unix/sfu/default.mspx Running MSIEXEC.EXE /i SfuSetup.msi /qb works, but this will only do a typical installation and many components are missing.

Re: [Unattended] miktex unattended

2005-03-29 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Christian Skalic schrieb: I am trying to install MikTex in unattended mode. This actually works, but when the installation is finished it automatically starts its DVI-Viewer Yap, which is the reason why the installation window of Miktex doesnt close. When I close Yap manually then the

Re: [Unattended] Driver Install

2005-03-23 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Ryan wrote: I'm hoping i'm just missing some small thing here, but i can't get my drivers to install. The scripts are all in place per instructions, and the install will actually take place. I run into a problem with my NIC drivers. Win 2000 machine boots up after restart and it cannot map Z. If i

Re: [Unattended] AutoIt script

2005-03-23 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Jose Buzon Zarzuela wrote: Base.bat: :: install Tarantella todo.pl AutoIt.exe tarainstall.aut I think, you should have in your base.bat: todo.pl AutoIt.exe %z%\scripts\tarainstall.aut HTH Gerhard --- This SF.net email is sponsored by

[Unattended] New version of apps-only script

2005-03-17 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, I added a new version of my apps-only script to the unattended WIKI. Changes: appsonly.bat now in \\server\install\bin as suggested by Urs, possibility to use other drive letter than z: for the mapping. Sorry for cross-posting this to both devel and general list, but I was unsure where

Re: [Unattended] After install, ActivePerl error message

2005-03-10 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Michael Joyner wrote: To do the prepare script you need to install cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) then start a cygwin shell prompt, cd to the appropriate directory that has the prepare script in it and type ./prepare [ENTER] There is also a perl version of prepare tool mentioned here

[Unattended] Added some scripts to the WIKI

2005-03-10 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all, I added some scripts to the unattended WIKI http://www.ubertechnique.com/unattended/Scripts Adobe Reader 7 + SpeedUp Tool AdAware AutoIt 3 CoverXP Free Disk Cleaner DivX Everest Httrack MyAcdSee Quicktime Alternative RealPlayer Alternative True Image 8 Server German VLC Media Player WinAmp

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