OK ive been succesful so far in getting all of the critical updates into my CD apart from 3, ive tried every method ive been able to find on this forum to get them installed but they just wont install.

Here are the ones im having problems with;

Q819639.exe
Q828026.exe
ENU_Q832483_MDAC_x86.EXE

ive tried running them from svcpack, tried creating a hotfix folder and creating a seperate cmd to runonce from within Winnt.sif and neither method works. Ive also tried both types of switches used for these hotfixes, /Q:A /R:N and /Q /N /Z.

These are the ones that i have been able to get installed ok;

js56nen.exe
q330994.exe
Q816093.exe
Q832894.exe
Q823182.exe
Q824105.exe
Q824141.exe
Q824146.exe
Q825119.exe
Q828035.exe
Q828028.exe

Anyone else had any problems with these?

Im also having problems getting office 2003 to silent install, the first method i tried failed said i needed to use the control panel to install system services and the second method i have found gives me some error about not being able to find the cab files when they are exactly where they should be;

ECHO.
ECHO Installing MS Office Professional 2003 with Publisher
ECHO Please wait...
start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Applications\Office2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Custom_Setup_File.MST /qb- /noreboot

Can anyone help? :newbie:

i think your office command line isnt correct 100%,

look at mine:



know what i mean? you dont have the "%systemdrive%" and the exactly
path behind "TRANSFORMS="......

with the hotfixes i can only show you the last one, because the 2 others
i dont use:


greez, spachtler

You don't need Q819639.exe if you're going to install Q828026.exe (because its a newer patch for WMP).

If you use WMP9, you need to install that before installing 828026.

Ok ive made a couple of modifications, just gonna burn to a dvd-rw and test

Ok, i tried again and im still having problems with the following which im running from within my batch file

ECHO.
ECHO Installing MS Office Professional 2003 with Publisher
ECHO Please wait...
start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Applications\Office2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=%systemdrive%\Install\Applications\Office2003\unattended.MST /qb- f

ECHO.
ECHO Installing Q832483 Security Update for Microsoft Data Access Components
start /wait "%systemdrive%\install\hotfixes\ENU_Q832483_MDAC_x86.EXE /T:%systemdrive%\install\tmp /C:"%systemdrive%\install\tmp\dahotfix.exe /q /n" /Q" /f

The problems with these are still the same, any ideas?

Am i running the 832483 update from the right point? would this be better running from RunOnce?

in your first post your office mst file was "Custom_Setup_File.MST",
now you wrote "unattended.MST", maybe thats the problem?

the hotfix command try to unpack the hotfix-file in a folder
(in my case "tmp" )... bevore it can do this, the folder has to be
created, maybe thats the reason..... so just create an empty
folder "tmp" on your dvd (install\tmp\) and the xp-routine will
copy it to the target drive. or remove the \tmp
in the command line so that the hotfix is extracted direct to
the \install folder....



spachtler

I changed the name of that file just in case it was too long.

Latest;

I tried the bat file command on the pc with the fresh install and with the office cd in the location where it should be and it ran fine and installed as i wanted it to with the command;

ECHO.
ECHO Installing MS Office Professional 2003 with Publisher
ECHO Please wait...
start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Applications\Office2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=%systemdrive%\Install\Applications\Office2003\unattended.MST /qb-

When running from my setup.bat file it still cant find the cab files?? :/

Whats the process for creating the MST file?

Do you need to move office into a folder "C:\Install\Applications\Office2003" before you create it?

I ran it when the CD was in C:\XPCD\$OEM$\$1\Install\Applications\Office2003

hm,

bevore i had integrated the office into the unattended xp,
i did an administrative office installation like this:

klick



goin to bed now,

c ya tomorrow...

You need to make an administrative installation point if you want to use an MST file with it.

Yea, i think thats where ive been going wrong all along, just doing a test now then i must go to bed, lol

Fingers crossed though and ive managed to get the following onto my CD in 5 days

Applications

Adobe Reader 6 Full
Ad Aware 6 Build 181
awxDTools Addon
Daemon Tools 3.44
DivX 5.0.5 Codecs
FSRaid 2.8.0
Getright 4.5e
MSN 6.1 & MSN Plus 2.54
MS Office Proffesional 2003
Motherboard Monitor 5.3.5.1
Nero Burning Rom 6.3.0.3 Ultra Edition
Norton Antivirus 2004 Pro
O&O Defrag Pro 6
Power DVD5
QuickPar 0.8.0.0
SmartPar 0.13d1
TweakUI Powertoy 2.10
WinRAR 3.20
Direct X9b
Media Player 9

Windows Updates

All Critical Updates as of 15 Feb 2004

I really hope this works now :excited:

Thanks for all your help so far

My DVD is complete

I had to make a couple of changes with switches etc but ive managed to get it all sorted.

Thanks for all your help

This DVD will save me a lot time in the future :beer: :beer:

could you give us the switches for this application?

thx

could i possibly ask what switches u used for Daemon Tools?

i'm getting a weird problem where the next application starts to install wtihout waiting for Daemon Tools to finish, so it fails, since it detects the previous installation hasnt completed...

Thanks