On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:14:05AM +0200, Jens Geile wrote: > > I don't have Win2K in my unattended os directory so I can't test the setup > > you have. > That's too bad. I was already wondering ... is NOONE using Windows 2000 > anymore? Did they just switch over to Windows XP when they encountered all > the problems with Windows 2000? Or is Win2k just "outdated"?
I still can't figure out why you are having so much problems with Win2K and Office. Windows2K is now on limited support from Microsoft. See: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifewin > > > Here is something I found on Google. > > http://www.appdeploy.com/messageboards/tm.asp?m=3841 > Well, I'm not at the point that another user wants to start Office yet. I'll > get to that problem once I can install Office. ;) > > > Office2K is asking for the Win2K because it needs or it thinks it needs > > something from the i386 directory. > Where the hell did you read that in the article posted above? o.O > What I found in the Microsoft Knowledgebase is this article: > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;240835 > Office 2000 is asking for the Windows CD because of the Windows File > Protection kicking in. I tried to fix the problem with the additional lines > in unattended.txt but it seems it only worked for Windows XP, not for Windows > 2000. > > > What happens when you feed the Win2K CD to the Office2K installer ? > I'll try that today. Need to burn a Windows 2000 SP4 CD first. Only got some > original Windows 2000 CDs without any SP ... But there must be some way to > install Office 2000 unattended. Inserting the Windows CD just is not an > option. :/ Another other option is to copy the i386 directory from Win2K SP4 to C: then point Win2K to the local C:\i386 directory. Watch for line wrap below: :: Update the windows registry so Windows knows where to find the i386 source files reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup /v SourcePath /t REG_SZ /d C:\ /f > NUL reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup /v ServicePackSourcePath /t REG_SZ /d C:\ /f > NUL reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup /v "Installation Sources" /t REG_MULTI_SZ /d C:\i386 /f > NUL reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Setup /v SourcePath /t REG_SZ /d C:\i386 /f > NUL Win2K doesn't come with the reg command. So you will need to download it from the web. Let me know how this go! Once you get unattended going you will wonder how you could get along without it. Thanks Paul > > - > jens ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
