[Unattended] minor bug, annoyances

2004-08-13 Thread Martin Schröer
i have recently finally managed to get the dos boot cd to run unattended ( linux boot still not working, see post somewhere below ) but there is a little bug : when ie6 is about to be installed, the scripts search for ie6.bat, but in the corresponding folder there is only a script named

[Unattended] Office 2003: Where do I have to put the key?

2004-08-13 Thread Martin Brodbeck
Hello, I try to install unattended Office 2003. But I don't know where I have to put the key... I've read somewhere that it can/should/must be set with a environment variable (PIDKEY) but do you have an example where/how I should do this? (sorry for the stupid question :-) ) Thanks Martin

[Unattended] WinXP Volume License CD

2004-08-13 Thread Ty Moffett
Has anyone had trouble using the volume license version of Windows XP? I'm trying to use My original XPSP1 CD with the new SP2 slipstreamed into it. All goes well in the beginning. It does the initial file copy and then reboots as expected, but when it continues the install after the

Re: [Unattended] Office 2003: Where do I have to put the key?

2004-08-13 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
The %PIDKEY% environment variable thing is a holdover from a bad idea I had a while ago. What I do is to edit the last line of ofc2003.bat to replace PIDKEY=%PIDKEY% with PIDKEY=ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY. That's the product key without hyphens. (I am pretty sure removing the hyphens was