"Johnson, Chris A -ND" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Synopsis: Unattended installation using Windows 2000 Server goes > great. Then it fails to complete the perl installation.
Hm. I have installed 2000 Server using Unattended before, but it has been a while. > It auto-logs on successfully (as Administrator), maps the Z: drive, and > starts to bring up the installer, then it dies with this pop-up message: > --- > Windows Installer > > The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if > you are running Windows in safe mode, or if the Windows Installer is not > correctly installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance. > --- Hm. That almost sounds like the Windows Installer service is not started, or is not started YET... > The only option is to click "OK". The screen doesn't have Icons or a > start menu yet. I click "OK" and it comes up fine (with Icons and Start > Menu) and I see the Configure your Server screen. > > I tried re-adding the GuiRunOnce command to the RunOnce registry and > rebooted. It worked fine. So it's just on the initial boot... Maybe the service just takes a while to fire up the first time. Could you open a cmd prompt after the failure and run "z:\scripts\perl.bat" by hand? > Maybe it's looking for a directory that doesn't exist yet (unhappy > there's no profile yet? temp directory?)? That is possible, but i would expect it be 100% reproducible. And I have definitely installed 2000 Server before. I will try again sometime in the next few days. > Let me know if you have any ideas, I know WS2K isn't on the > officially supported list, though. We certainly aspire to support it. It is very, very similar to Win2k. It has a few hotfixes unique to itself which we do not yet install, but otherwise it should work the same as 2k. - Pat ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
