Okay. So I'm pretty new to using nLite (thought I have used it for a while just to integrate hard drive controller drivers). I have never used the RunOnce option in the 'Unattended' page. I want RunOnce to run a single batch script. This batch script will wget (http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/) a PHP script I have on my server. This PHP script will generate another batch script which will request a series of useful programs, also using wget. These packages include Firefox, Thunderbird, K-Lite, Notepad++, etc. Don't worry about the logistics of getting the installer for all of these programs. I had to go through a fun time of screen scraping and other crap in PHP. My question for you guys is where I would put an initial batch script and wget in the Windows XP folder before letting nLite dump the entire folder into an ISO. Also what RunOnce commands would I use.

Confused? Here's another break-down. Right now, on my desktop I have a folder with a batch script, called start.bat, and all of the necessary exe's and dll's for wget. If I run the batch script, wget is copies to the to the current user's desktop, another batch script is downloaded from my server and then run... I feel like anyone who reads this will be confused.

Maybe this will help. Here's the source for my main batch script.


The six copy statements make a copy of wget to the current user's desktop.

If anyone wants help me out with this project or is interested in the concept, please email me at wintallo@gmail.com.

EDIT: by the way, if anyone would like to see my script in action, message me.

Thanks!

Good presentation, tho you kind of mixed question in it, therefore it gets confusing.
Could you please rephrase question into a single, standalone sentence?

to make the batch file run just call it from guirunonce section inside Nlite, f.ex cmd /R pathtofileyourbatchfile.bat

in windows install cd folder that would translate to %source%\batchfiles\yourbatchfile.bat (example) (%source% nlite makes for you, if not using nlite read up on msfn's guide to unattended for other alternatives)

That answered my question. Thanks a lot!

I notice you use wget... I wasn't aware that windows had wget, and it's a linux/unix feature that I've always wanted. Did you find it somewhere or write it yourself? And either way, could you link me to it? Thanks!

You can try http://www.christopherlewis.com/WGet/WGetFiles.htm (linked from the wget wiki which is linked from the wget home page - not that hard to find)

Thanks XIII,



That's exactly where I got my copy.

I have another problem. I get an access denied error when excecuting wget (which was copied from the cd to the desktop) from a batch on the cd.

For the sake of simplicity, I have a batch file on my cd and I want that batch file to create a file on the current user's desktop holding the text "test". This is the command I am using right now.



This code does not work. It gives me an "access is denied" error. Is there a way to enable cd batch scripts to write to the hard drive. Note: I can copy files from the cd to the hard drive. This does not solve my problem because I need a program to write to the hard drive from the batch on the cd.

Thanks for the help so far!