Ah, the next step... (:
Someone else suggested I use RunOnceEx for that too. I'll look into it
at some stage. It's taken me three years to get this far.
Cheers,
Greg.
Paul Lewis wrote:
> Why don't you just get unattended to run your batch files; then you can have
> fully automated installations :)
>
> Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory Orange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: 30 January 2008 14:35
> To: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net
> <unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: Re: [Unattended] apps: openoffice, 7zip
>
> Juan Jose Pablos wrote:
>> Gregory Orange escribió:
>>> I've also noticed that some time in the past year, the OpenOffice
>>> script now includes the installation of 7zip. Can anyone tell me if
>>> this is necessary, and if not can we separate it out? I don't actually
>>> want 7zip to be installed on the machines here.
>>>
>> have a look on the script. It is needed to install the dictionaries.
>
> Indeed. As it turns out I don't need 7zip coz the script never reaches
> the zip files. Also I've decided that while appsonly.bat was great for
> the time I used it, and I've loved having script-update and prepare to
> keep packages up to date, I'm moving on. It's mainly because we have too
> much other quirky software that noone is going to maintain an
> installation repos for other than us. So I've now got a suite of batch
> files that install everything at one click. I've plagiarised shamelessly
> from the unattended scripts and am very happy with the result so far.
>
> So I now have two systems: Unattended for operating system installation,
> patches and configuration; and my own suite of batch files for
> application deployment. It's actually smoother for me than trying to use
> unattended to do both.
>
> Cheers,
> Greg.
>
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