Hi,
In our organisations we often have to custom setup PC for each
user, so I was trying to think up a plan for making unatteded
better at this.
Here is my thoughts so far:
1) For every application, or group of applications that is always
installed together, you want to be able to install you write a small
installation.bat script. You also maintain a list of what
installiton.bat scripts you have. Perhaps in this format:
--------------- List Start ---------------
"Windows Update", "%winver%-updates.bat"
"MS Office", "MSoffice.bat"
"Some Application", "someinstaller.bat"
---------------- List End ----------------
This list should be sorted in the order you want the installations to
happen.
2) Instead of running base.bat, sales.bat ect from the Z: drive you create
a script file on the C: drive which contains the todo.pl commands to
install everything you want to.
3) When you select which software package that should be install after
the windows installation, what you really is doing is a select a
template which will configure the defaulf settings of the new
script mention below in 4). The list could look like this:
--------------- List Start ---------------
"Windows Update", yes
"Some Application", yes
---------------- List End ----------------
4) A new menu item is added to the very last menu of install.pl
This is a small program/script reads the list mention in 1)
and the list from 3). From list 1) it figures out which
installations is possible and from list 3) it figures out which ones
it to be set to <Yes> initially. It then pops up a screen that looks
something like this:
--------------- Screen Start ---------------
Key Name Install
A Windows Updates <Yes>
B MS Office <No>
C Some Application <Yes>
X Exit.
---------------- Screen End ----------------
If you hit A,B or C then you toggle between yes and not.
When you are done, and hit X you return to the last menu in Unattended
and when you hit "go" Unattended, along with all the other stuff that
happens, starts to pass the list generated from the bottom of the list
and addes a "todo.pl" line for each application marked as <Yes>,
alternativily it could pass the list from the top down and just add it
to one long todo.pl line, but I dont know if there is a maximum lenght
on those lines.
I dont know if the script being written to drive C: should be a new
file or it just should be added to postinst.bat file.
Comments and ideas are welcome but keep them on-list, cause that way
others can participate as well.
If someone who is a perl wiz can code it I'll be happy, cause Im not a
hardcore perl man, thou I guess I could learn it if noone else got the
time for this/feel like it.
Regards,
Nils
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