I downloaded "Office 2003 Sp1 Admin" and other administrative upadates and slipstreamed with Office 2003.
Made 7 .mst-s > Word.mst, excel, access, powerpoint, outlook, publisher and infopath.mst .
It look's like in picture I attached !

Here's the problem > I can't shrink it

1. When "shrink_lang02.exe" asks for "Office Source", I enter "C:\Office2003\" (It's the place of slipstreamed "Office 2003 Sp1 Admin", it's not the normal "Office 2003 Proff.").
2. When it asks for "Office Target", I enter "C:\Office\" (empty directory).
3. For "Office Setup Exe" >>> "C:\Office2003\Setup.Exe".
4. For Mst file >>> "C:\Office2003\Word.Mst" (it's the mst to install only word).

after that it begins:
1. Gathering required info...
2. and after that gives a lot of errors like >>> "Setup cannot find the required file C:\office\FILES\PFILES\COMMON\MSSHARED\OFFICE11\USP10.DLL".
3. Shrinking complete message, or something like that.
4. canceling... (running back).

after this:
"c:\office\" is 66.2 Mb-s. Sometimes it's 7Mb not depending what mst am I using.
I'm renaming Word.mst to unattended.mst,
deleting other mst-s,
copying Installer.exe,
archiving all in that folder with 7z (when the size is 66.2 Mb, archiving freezes at 48% and nothing can be done, so I'm terminating),
deleting all except Office.7z,
renaming Office.7z to Word.7z,
extracting finish.exe,
running command: copy /b 7zs.sfx + config.txt + Word.7z Word.Exe

Word.Exe is created ! Let's try to open !
Error !

Am I doing all right ?
I guess no

please help to correct who can......


PS. It was interesting to see that before archiving I can install Word with this command:
C:\Office2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=C:\Office2003\Word.Mst /qb-

It's not properly slipstreamed. follow this guide exactly http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/office2003_slipstreaming.htm .

good call

You need to figure out why 7zip freezes during compression. Can you compress other folders without errors? You might need to re-install 7Zip, or try WinRar instead?

If you can install Word from C:\Office then it has been slipstreamed correctly. Try this to check.


Your size of 66Mb looks about right for a Word installation.

If the size of C:\Office is only 7Mb it means that shrink didnt work, try again (probably parts of Office were installed on the PC, so you'll have to do a clean install of WinXP, or preferably revert to a snapshot in VMware)

@ Dahi The office is not properly slipstreamed. That is the problem, 7-zip does not work because he has a messed up office.

Office is slipstreamed correctly because I can install anything (word, excel, powerpoint, outlook, publisher infopath...) using it's .mst using command:
C:\Office2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=c:\office2003\Word.Mst /qb (It's normal installing)

7z work's fine, I can compress anything...

I think all the problem is with shrink_lang02.exe (everything is ok before I use shrink_lang02.exe)...

can You send me the script, maybe I can understand & correct my problems if I see what is it doing and how...

shrink only works with 3 languages. what language are u using?

English Office 2003 Professional Edition
Without frontpage
with this serial : 7

we dont need your serial

in order to use shrink u need a clean install of xp

meaning only xp no other software.

then u run office shrink

good luck u know u really should post this in the office shrink thread.

My xp is with sp2 slipstreamed. Should I have installed office, or it's not making any difference ?

I felt that it makes difference.

If It is necceserry please move my topic to yours...

1. format your computer
2. install xp w/ or w/o sp2
3. run office shrink
4. blah blah blah

is that simple enough?

yey remove ur illegal cd key otherwise some pplz comin to ur house, lol...time 4 jail
yey y u post the cdkey??
do it on a clean xp install, best solution with VMWare

ok... I'll try !
And no cd-keys more !

Dont rename Office.7z to Word.7z
Then run: copy /b 7zs.sfx + config.txt + Office.7z Word.Exe

if you are using my installer.exe definitely not going to work.

I the guide is so easy to follow a child could do it.

I'm a big kid I'll vouch for that .

Ppl, it doesn't help

1. I'm installing WinXp On VirtualPc2004 (after mading 2 HDDs for VirtualPc)
2. Installing Office2003 on D: using: "setup /a"
2. Slipstreaming as it's written in the manual (http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/office2003_slipstreaming.htm)
3. Slipstreaming also some other updates >>>
office2003-kb870774-fullfile-enu.exe,
office2003-kb887982-fullfile-enu.exe,
office2003-kb890854-fullfile-ENU.exe,
No errors, everything excellent.
4. Installing Office 2003 Resource Kit, making unattended.mst as it's shown on Unattended.mst.jpg (I Attached),
Word.Mst, Excel.Mst..... with the detailed setting I want. (Including Serial >>> CDKey.Jpg)
5. Installing Office2003 to be sure source's working. Here's the command:
setup.exe TRANSFORMS=D:\Office2003\unattended.MST /qb- (Office2003.Jpg).
Everything is excellent !
6. Rebooting, Formatting C:, Installing WinXp once more 'cus after installing Office2003 it's not Clean Installation.
7. After installing I have "Windows Xp Proff." on C: and "Slipstreamed Office 2003 Administrative" on D: (Second HDD)
8. Trying to Shrink using Word.Mst...(
Source="D:\Office2003\",
Target="D:\Word\",
Setup.Exe="D:\Office2003\Setup.Exe"
*.Mst="D:\Office2003\Word.mst")
9. It gives a lot of errors like this >>> Error 1308 (Some Files in D:\Word\... are not found)
(Some Of that Errors are attached >>> Error 1.Jpg, Error 2.Jpg, Error 3.Jpg)

What to do ?

Images are Here

1st: at stage 9 what happen to unattended.MST

where did u get word.mst?

what are u doing just getting word???

shrink_lang02.exe works only with file named unattended.mst ?

I made an mst only for word (I want to make word.exe) and named it word.mst !

what is your office ? english or non english?

English

should work.

Really ?

can it be the slipstreaming problem if it's installing fine with it's unattended.mst ?

Asta > I'm reading U'r topic and the same problem has r0sWell and titou2k

I mean error 1308 !

Pls dont post partial post. U are misleading other people.

Roswell is using the FRENCH VERSION.



http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...ndpost&p=254828
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...ndpost&p=255854

10x ppl, I got it......

I was thinking that the errors that I got was my mistakes, but I learned the way it's working.

thanks a lot. now I'm making My Office

P.S. is it normal that compressing of 70Mb Takes 1:30 hour ?
(P IV, 2200Mhz, 256Mb Ram)

yes on a slow processor. but on a fast p4 3.0 it only takes a few minutes

I'm going to turn off my virtual memory, maybe that'll help

My ram is 256 Mb when 7z wants ~340....

Nope it doesn't help
I made my Word.Exe (it costed me 9 hours of compressing )

dude 9 hours to compress is insane. u must be running what a P2 or P1 ???

it only takes minutes for us to compress using 7z