hello folks,

first of all, please let me thank U for your forum, it was usefull for me to understand silent installations.

secondly, sorry for my poor English (I promise, I'll do my best)



here is my matter :

I try to install Office 2003 with my unattended installation of XP, but when starting "Apps.bat", I see .Net installing, OK, MSN , ok ...., but the installation of Office don't need more than 3 seconds ( ), and , of course, the programm is not available at the end of the installation ...


I created a "office.bat" in the same directory as Office setup, to try , writing:

"start /wait setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-"

this way, the installation is correct, no problem.


so, any idea please ?

the problem is that the bat fil think that it have been run from whereever you call it and there is not such setup file there
instead of calling the bat file, then call the command directly
e.g.
start /wait %cdrom%\install\app\office\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=%cdrom%\install\app\office\Unattended.MST /qb-

Cheers

hello


right, that's what I wrote in the .bat burned on CD , I linked setup.exe with %systemdrive% .....


that's why I can't understand !

here's is yesterday's point :

Office begins the installation (MS Office collects informations), the progress bar ends, and then , a new one says MS Of. is configuring .

the progress bar goes till end , and comes back, and that's all, another application "begins".


When loging as an Admin in WinXP, I can't see winword, excel, and so on !

I have a 147 Mo folder, named 'Microsoft Office', in programm files
there are all .exe (ie winword pwpt, ...), but when lauching, I'm said

"this application was not installed for this user"


... any idea would be welcome


Many thanks !

i suppose, you're using a trimmed down version of MS Office. Probably you've missed someting along when creating the unnattend.mst file.

look here for a guide on installing office XP and 2003 -
http://unattended.msfn.org

i made my office xp to be install silent without any problems and also i made it as autorun see this

you have
the Autorun.ini

and uo crate the file .bat in the sam place with the Autorun file

Now what let see what i did

open the file Autorun.ini & typ this only

[autorun]
OPEN=setup.bat /AUTORUN
ICON=setup.exe,0



here you see i called my .bat file setup.bat

and the ICON here it is the setup file for your office you should name it as what you have


Now what you will type in the .bat file see this


@echo off
ECHO.
ECHO Installing Microsoft Office XP..
setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.mst /qb-
ECHO.
ECHO Restarting the PC in 1 minute...
shutdown.exe -r
EXIT


don't forget the two files should be in the root

you can burrn the cd



in the end you will see the office installing atuomatic when you will insert the CD


sorry if i am not clear ...............?

This might be your problem - for every CMD and/or BAT file - you need to add the %cdrom% section:

http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/runonceex_cd.htm