Hello Gerhard, On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Gerhard Hofmann wrote:
> Michael De Groote wrote: >> uhm... that would apply in case of a blank installed system (which i >> sometimes do on a dual-boot machine, where i install the basic windows >> install and then use the this approach, the reason for this i'll explain >> another time) >> >> I case of a system that already has some applications, the approach of >> running postinst.bat is not the thing you want to do i think... >> >> what i do in that case is >> A) see if any of the profiles that i have defined matches what i want to >> install, if yes => mapznrun z:\bintodo.pl z:\scripts\< profile.bat> + >> z:\bin\todo.pl --go >> B) if not, use mapznrun once, then do z:\bin\todo.pl <app.bat> for each >> app to be installed, then finally issue z:\bin'\todo.pl --go >> >> i suppose the appsonly script is doing the latter, but with some extra >> stuff to make it more robust... >> >> Michael >> > > Hi Michael, > > your assumption is perfectly right. The appsonly script will create the > c:\netinst and > c:\netinst\logs and then invoke todo.pl for every package the user wants > to be installed. It is intended for PCs that already have an installed OS. > > Basically it works like the procedure described here > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01245.html > but in am more convenient way (user selects applications in a multiple > choice dialog like he does when doing an OS + apps deployment). > > I have a demo screen capture here that shows it in a VMware: > http://www.badongo.com/vid/596403 > > Regards > Gerhard > good work this script! I used it some days ago for installing five PCs with Windows-XP. I wanted to use the original OEM-Install-CD for these machines so that activation was not necessary. After installing XP I used appsonly to get all updates and aplications and alle registry tweaks. Worked like a charme. It is a good extension for unattended. Regards Stefan Kell ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
