I found this tool for creating desktop shortcuts. Works great for my needs.
http://www.optimumx.com/download/#Shortcut
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From: Eugene Kotlyarov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 8:32 AM
To: Patrick J. LoPresti
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
To get the install/update to speed up a little bit I
have changed the base.bat to actually run the change boot.ini directly after the
defrag.
This will save 30 seconds every time the machine
reboots when installing the windows updates. J
This is not much but in the long run quite a lot
Hello,
I've found a way how to build floppy images on windows.
First of all you need Cygwin http://cygwin.com
One trick is that you have to set Default text file type to Unix in
Cygwin setup or mtools will not work.
Second thing that you need is mtools.
Binaries for win32 can be
This is my mistake. I assumed that since ipconfig.exe exits
with status 13 for me, it exits with status 13 for everybody.
And I am a tad obsessive about checking exit statuses. But
I have reports of ipconfig.exe exiting with 11 and now 14, so
that code needs a little work.
The
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Choose site specific unattend.txt
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Nice code; thanks for sharing it.
set_value ('Identification', 'JoinDomain',
sub {
my $name = simple_q
('Join workstation to what domain (none =
I tested disk image creation with a shareware package
called winimage.
What a great utility. Might be a nice thing to add for
windows users
without access to Linux for disk image creation. Just a thought.
If it is shareware, I assume you paid for it, right :-) ?
I would be
Trying to network boot from the tftp server (Win2k, tftpd32 ver 2.53)
Gets IP address from dhcp
gets to the boot process, where you type inst
the comes up with: Invalid or corrupt kernel image.
Up to this point tftpd32 has worked fine, You just need a version greater
than 2.51, as before this
I believe that I have solved this issue at the Gig ether card. There
is a setting on the Intel PRO/1000 XT (win2k server) called Offload
Transmit TCP Checksum that, when set to Off, seems to resolve the
issue with communicating with the dos nic driver. I've only been
through three successful
Hello,
First two things: I'm a german and my english writing is not very good, so
excuse me.
Second: This is a really great project!!!
my Solution to install Direct X 9 is very simple: Download the package from
Microsoft, extract it and excange the dxsetup.exe with the old one from v8.1.
Then
Brian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I wouldn't need NT. The biggest would be Win98se. I don't have the
site up right now, but will this work with XP Home? I'm assuming it
would being an XP product.
It depends on how badly Microsoft crippled XP Home. I do not know if
it will work, but I am
reat Place to find yourself AutoIt tools to make live with autoit a lot easier
:)
AutoItScriptWriter Saves me a lot of time. I just press buttons, and it works
out what's going on
But find it and other nice tools at...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AutoItList/files/
Mean I don't have to
Hello,
when the install.pl script prompts for admin passwords they are
displayed on the screen.
How could I mask/hide the password on the screen with * charecter ?
If the script would be running under Unix I would write something like:
system(sty -echo);
get password from standard input
Soeren Kuklau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
memdisk is a tool that loads images into memory and emulates them as
volumes, I presume?
Correct.
We have one of those SuperDisk USB drives which also mount
floppies (I never worked with them though). Whether the BIOS accepts
those as floppy, though,
I decided to take a crack at this today. I have good news and bad
news.
The good news is that I can now boot from a virtual hard drive instead
of a virtual floppy. I have made most of the necessary changes to
autoexec.bat, net/system.in_, and install.pl to make them boot drive
agnostic. And I
If you are using a password on the account used to map to the
sharepoint, you need to modify the Perl program that generates the
postinst.bat to include that information. Not doing that will produce your
other symptoms of not executing after reboots since the z: drive is
mapped, but not
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 12:56, Norström, Daniel wrote:
Why is quite simple, the company I work for believes that it is a security
risk to have the Perl left in the image.
most users are not skilled enough to even know what 'perl' is. so this
security hazard is minimal. and the ones skilled enough
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Nils [iso-8859-1] Østbjerg wrote:
Run, z:\\packages\\putty\\putty-installer.exe /silent
WinWait, Setup, This will install PuTTY. Do you wish to continue?
Send, {ENTER}
Why install putty ? Why not just copy it over where you want it ?
I do it so that that it appears
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Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Per conto di Russell
Smith
Inviato: mercoledì 11 giugno 2003 1.38
A: Michelangelo Bottura; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oggetto: [Unattended] Re:
Are these machines joining a domain?
Does the postinst.bat run?
Yep they are
Mark writes:
Just a few suggestions/comments
How about todo.pl logging errors instead of bailing on unexpected error
conditions (unless it's fatal, of course). Maybe a switch to set it?
I prefer the default of halting. This allows me to fix the problem, and
manually restart todo, to
On Donnerstag, Juli 3, 2003, at 09:22 Uhr, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
[Is] this possibly an ISOLINUX
bug which might be fixed by now?
It is actually a memdisk issue, and it persists even in the latest
prerelease (2.05-pre2); I checked.
memdisk is a tool that loads images into memory and
There are a bunch of good Perl modules for dealing with ini files. You
might look at them (CPAN), not that you have to actually use them, but
their source might help. Too bad that you have to write an ini parser
when so many already exist in perl.
Cheers,
Scott
-Original Message-
From:
Nils Østbjerg wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 16:47:51, Nils Østbjerg wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone tell me, why we use an AutoIt script to run the Disk
Defragmenter instead of using the command line version defrag ?
as I send the mail O figured out the answer myself ... I think ...
Given that you have Windows installed already, you should have REGEDIT.EXE;
the Win9X version can run from DOS. You can create a REG file and import it
with REGEDIT /S xxx.REG.
Here's part of an AutoIt script that does the same thing (lines separated so
that you can see what's wrapped):
; Add
Chris Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How well does this package handle OEM mass storage drivers, ie. RAID
controller drivers for compaq servers that don't ship on the win2k
server cd rom?
There was a bug in earlier versions of unattend.pl which prevented it
from parsing these lines, but I
Hello list,
just a few tweaks for the win2ksp3-notips.pl. I hope you find it usefull:
# Delete program for creating internet connection wizard icon on desktop
foreach my $reg_key ($cuser_key, $defuser_key, $ntuser_key) {
my $path = $soft_ms/Windows/CurrentVersion/Runonce//^SetupICWDesktop;
Given that perl is not installed because we need to install the windows installer and
reboot how do we set windows to run the update scripts on reboot. Ther must be a way
to do it from dos but how?
Godfrey
According to my notes (based on the docs for the Windows Installer Cleanup
Tool),
If it would help, I can post the code - I am not sure of the best way to
post vb source code to the list though, I am not sure that attachments are
the best way to go.
Also the code is a little rough - I am not a programmer by trade.
Let me know
Regards
Kevin
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From:
I use an Inno setup package to do printer installs (as attached).
Cheers,
Scott
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Byron
Clark
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 3:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Unattended] Installing Printers
What's
It works now =)
By the way you don't need to worry for me, I don't usually setup blank
passwords... It was just something I tried to get the automatic network
drive mapping to work. I don't know why it kept asking me for the
password... In fact I'm not sure how it is supposed to work, because the
One of our users (Edward Tak) has already done the legwork to get this
going. See:
http://www.meanpenguin.com/ws-spi/unattend/
I have no objections to this approach, but it needs to be integrated
properly. That means preserving the single source for producing the
floppies, ISO images, and
Thanx alot!
You got me on the right track, version 6.0 have changed but I found where I
(and you all) can do the changes
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\6.0\Updater]
iUpdateFrequency=dword:- NO Update
Default is
iUpdateFrequency=dword:0001
And you are soo
Hi
Since I'm syspreping my machines after I've done the unattended installation
I want to get rid of the ActivePerl and the folders used when building the
image.
I have some problems through...
In some script (I don't know what one) the autolog.pl is adding it self to
the todo list. And that
It's still me :-)
This is how to install network printers using local drivers:
(Example for a HP LaserJet 8150 Series PS)
start /wait rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /if /b MYPRINTER /f
%windir%\inf\ntprint.inf /r \\printmsa1\dds24 /m HP LaserJet 8150
Series PS
To install a printer using
I want to initiate an MS Office 2000 installation immediately after installing Win2k
Pro. Unfortunately, the present documentation does not provide must detail.
Can anyone provide the instruction to pull this off?
Thanx.
TJ
Need a new email address that people can remember
Check out the
Given currently I am focusing my development on people running servers on
linux, I have interested in what you are running your server on.
If people could reply to me personally, I will post a summary of the results
to the list in a week or so. Depending on the amount of responses I get :)
It
Andrew Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Has anyone had any luck with installing to scsi drives, that need
drivers added to $oem$\textmode?
If so what did you do to get it to work?
The unattend.txt parser in the current release is too stupid to
let you do this, I am afraid:
It works now =)
By the way you don't need to worry for me, I don't usually setup blank
passwords... It was just something I tried to get the automatic network
drive mapping to work. I don't know why it kept asking me for the
password... In fact I'm not sure how it is supposed to work, because the
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