You know, I REALLY should get RyanVM to make that note clearer about his .NET 2.0 installer. It's stated so conspicuously there, but for some reason no one reads it!!

It seems to work with Windows 2000, maybe not XP. At one point I was getting an error because mscorsvw was trying to start, but the installation kept on chugging, and I never narrowed it down to .net1.1sp1 or .net2 because I stopped getting it as I fixed other errors in my unattended install

I'm not sure why this happened. I have to do more testing. It could be due my new attempts at driver integration.

When I used 70111a, for the post-setup wizard, the system tries to open the MSOOBE shell through Internet Explorer (HTML file) rather than full-screen on its own. It's weird (I was presented with that IE file download dialog. Of course, everything gets stuck after that.

[attachment=16241:HFSLIP.zip]

@S-M: KB912945 caused the same error because of mshtml.dll. Can you try without KB928029 to see if it works properly then?

the_guy

Removing KB928029 seems to have solved it. Is there any way to have HFSLIP support this?

Hi Tomcat, I have tested once your new version of the script... I have only one question for my curiosity. In the other topic (net framework topic) I have asked you to support RunOnce in HFSLIP (Thanks a lot)... I have tried to install Net Framework 1.1 and 2.0 with SVCPACK method, net package 3.0 with GuiRunOnce. It installs, but Event Viewer doesn't show anything about framework 3.0 installation. There are entries for net framework 1.1, for net framework 2.0, but for the 3.0 nothing... Do you know why this happen?

This post has been edited by S3pHiroTh: Jan 27 2007, 10:46 AM

.NET 3.0 installed for me. I used the same setup as you: DNF11.exe and DNF20.exe in HFSVCPACK and DNF30.exe (not including .NET 2.0) in HFGUIRUNONCE.
Event Viewer shows the regular warnings about .NET 3.0 here...

Ok, I'll run another session of test

EDIT: Another question about the script: there is a way to "stamp" the output messages when the script is working?
I have used this dos command "hfslip-701261.cmd > error.txt", but the errors are shown on command prompt windows and the other messages are write in error.txt file
I have discovered that if I write the istruction above, I have 3 error message in command prompt, but I don't know when this errors are shown.
The errors are:
-Impossible to find that specific file.
-Impossible to find 'DIR/B/A-D file
-File not found

Maybe the second is easy to find, but the others... urgh...

This post has been edited by S3pHiroTh: Jan 27 2007, 03:37 PM

Actually, I just searched the entire script and can't find where that DIR/B/A-D error message could be coming from. To my knowledge it can only come from missing single quotes in a FOR loop and there aren't any of those...

I'll go error message hunting again one of these days....

Working on it....

OK... I have something that works. Just want to verify something extra with the SVCPACK install and then I'll release it.

OK, thanks.

I have 2 other requests about hfslip, can you add support, in GuiRunOnce mode, for .cmd files?

Second request, can you add the support for copy files, as $OEM$ do? I mean if I put files in $1 directory, they'll go to %SystemDrive%, if I put files in $$ directory, they'll go to %SystemRoot% directory.
I know that in HFEXPERT directory of HFSLIP, there are WIN and PROGRAMFILES directory, but if I put one file in WIN, and this file has spaces in his name, Windows installation doesn't start, because TXTSETUP.SIF or DOSNET.INF doesn't accept files with spaces in their name.

EDIT: Tomcat I have found where the error messages are shown.
The first message (The system cannot find the file specified.) is related to KB902845 update. I don't know why this message is shown, because, when extract with hfslip script, there are 2 files (setupldr.bin and setupldr.exe), and the same result is if I extract that hotfix manually...  Error1.jpg ( 40.43K ) Number of downloads: 11


The second message (The system cannot find the file 'DIR/B/A-D.)is after the copy of .cat files and before the driver.cab is extracted.
 Error2.jpg ( 49.19K ) Number of downloads: 9


The third message (File Not Found) is when the script process the HFEXPERT directory, so I think it displays the error message because HFEXPERT/WIN or HFEXPERT/PROGRAMFILES is empty.
 Error3.jpg ( 46.56K ) Number of downloads: 8


I have posted the image, so you can understand better

This post has been edited by S3pHiroTh: Jan 29 2007, 12:40 PM

Thanks. Fixed in 70129b.

In the latest stable version there is an error in timezones update processing. I don't know if it's corrected already or not:

line 1117 - FOR /F "TOKENS=* DELIMS= " %%I IN ('FINDSTR/I "Time.Zones" TEMP\UPDATE\_TZC.inf') DO ECHO>>WORK\928388A.TXT %%I

I think you intended to write FINDSTR /R /I "Time.Zones\\ ", because without /R it ain't won't not find nothing.


note the "\\ " I added(a space is there!). This way you can use three less of those search-strings on the next line

EDIT: also I think it's not wise to write the parameters immediately after the command. I had found lots of issues, I can post some if you'd like, but maybe it's just because my cpu is buggy, or maybe it was "feature" not bug... like the above... dunno

I happen to have some issues too. I have rewritten HSLIP a bit, so it might be that i made this bug, but maybe someone can help me where look for solution:

SOURCES with FDV + HFCLEANUP +DX9 (an absolutely conservative general minimal install should be)

1, during install it pops up dirver signing dialogs (i set DELCATS).
2, many services are not removed, for example Utility Manager, which should be by Applications_AccessibilityOptions.inf, and many others. I found out that HFSLIP folder exists in WINDOWS folder, full of inf files. Now when I installed them manually by doubleclicking them, after a restart the entries in Services MMC are removed, so these infs were not processed for some reason during install. As I know the whole folder (WINDOWS\HFSLIP) should be removed by HFSLIP.CMD.

Any idea what is the cause? How does the install process goes exatly? SYSSETUP is called first, and it calls HFSLIPWUF or how? Is it possible that the whole hfslipwu.inf were not processed, or the issue might be with hfslip.cmd? Where should I start looking?

This post has been edited by whitehorses: Jan 30 2007, 03:18 AM

If any installation INF isn't written correctly, it won't install. Sounds like you modded the script and it broke some installation INF. Sorry, I don't plan on helping with this one, there are too many variables. If it means anything, the main setup infs are sysoc.inf, sysssetup.inf, and the hfslip infs. IIRC, syssetup.inf is only processed if using hfcleanup and/or using FDV files.

@TP - could you explain it a bit more...

1. the mistyping I mentioned is in the original HFSLIP, not my modded one.

2. I'm exactly sure there could be problems with writing the parameters next to the command. (i had one issue around hfcleanup, with a findstr i think. the one who wrote hfcleanup also knew something, since all commands there are separated for reason)

3. I understand that my problem above is not your concern in a way like if it happened with the current stable release, so I just asked for your oppinion about it.

Can you scetch the dependecies of inf files during installation? which is the root? what calls it? What is IIRC you mentioned?

By the way I don't make modifications to the script too much, just reidenting and reading it...khm and I had probably this issue for a year, long before I started thinkering the script...khm...

EDIT: Maybe I'm annoying, sorry for that. I wrote this, to be put in the end of :TZ928388 :

At least ON MY "STRANGE" COMPUTER it's working this way correctly. Maybe I'm wrong sorry for that.

EDIT 2: changed to work without RegEx in the 1st and 3th line

This post has been edited by whitehorses: Jan 30 2007, 06:52 PM

Writing switches immediately to the right of the command does not always cause a problem, although I did find that with one particular command it doesn't work. For all others, I have had no issue with it.

IIRC = If I recall correctly...

@whitehorses

It depends on the tool if switches can be combined or not, or even "attached" to the program's name. FIND needs them separated and "detached" but FINDSTR doesn't.

/R stands for Regular expression. It should only be used if there are regular expressions in your search string.

Just to make something clear: there's nothing "wrong" with the time zone code that's there in the current final of HFSLIP; it's "working" and produces the same result as your code. But I admit that your sample is better; I reworked it a little and it's now used in version 70130b. Thanks

I have the problem with the the newest test version in the text mode:


[TXTSETUP.SIF:
[SourceDisksFiles]

IE7_INST.EXE = 1,,,,,,,1200,0,0

This post has been edited by dziubek: Jan 30 2007, 01:28 PM