[bombtrack]

killerbee, on Jan 27 2004, 07:39 PM, said:

WOW

@ T-12min - plz let me know how u've done that as i wanna maintain a list with these points.

cya

Killer Bee

yes, cmdlines.txt simply runs the xpinstall.exe

@wraith, it keeps getting better & better, thx

[killerbee]

hmmm,

just had an idea for this one:

would it be possible to let the program resize the pic used, so that there can't be any unwallpapered place. Maybe a tag with stretch, tile and center as options.

Cya

Killer Bee

[killerbee]

hi,

i have a problem running it from cmdlines.txt
in this config it won't start at cmdlines.txt-stage
plz help

cya

KillerBee

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[bombtrack]

change

[COMMANDS]
"./xpinstall.cmd"

to

[COMMANDS]
".\xpinstall.cmd"

[BaTLeZone]

X-Ecutioner, on Jan 26 2004, 06:00 PM, said:

Okay. I need a little help here.

I have the multiboot style directory structure. I put the postinstall dir in every directory i can think of and nothing is working. I keep gettin this error. (See Pic)

Any ideas?

how did u do that to the win setup screen?

[Wraith]

Guess what? 1.5 is up

You WILL have to redo your XML files - I've changed a large portion of the config syntax. The items block should be fine to just copy straight over.

I should point out that it will generally accept jpg, gif, png, bmp, tiff.

@killerbee: Sorry, I don't use cmdlines.txt.

[bombtrack]

my files:

cmdlines.txt

[COMMANDS]
".\xpinstall.exe"

1 item out of the xpinstall.xml

 <item name='Installiere Updates'>
  	<file name='Installiere 819639...' program='%XPINSTALL%hotfixe\KB819639.exe' arguments='-Q /Z'></file>

attached a screenshot of whats inside my $oem$ folder.

i hope this clears up some of the confusion on how t use xpinstall (even though i think its very simple)

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[pervert]

Well, Partition Magic wasnt so magical and i lost 200gb of everything. Including email & bookmarks from the last six years. 'Make a backup' was never required before, stupidly i assumed it wouldnt be required now.

Anyway, Bomb, i want that visual style too - also, who had that hacked installer "Collecting information... Notifying Police" etc. I also want that, or to know which files i need to hex edit or resource edit to come up with something similar.

Third, @bee: does the "ALL SCHEDULED OPERATIONS COMPLETED" have to be in capital letters? =)

Feature requests:
File Move/Copy (native - not with cmd.exe).
Mouse/Keyboard neutralizer so vbs installs can work with no possibility of user screwups (optional, of course )

Something I may do, but i am a novice programmer and it may take a very long time, so if anyone else wants to, be my guest:
Write a config program that could download database updates of known silent install switches and/or vbscripts so the user could just add known apps as well as unknown apps (and have them submitted) via a gui. Just pick the dirname and it would add appropriate code to the xml file. And if files are in $oem$\$1\etc the program would add %systemdrive% and if outside $oem$ it would use %sourcepath%. Make adding stuff easy - mainly due to command line switches not being completely standard and an updated database being a really neat feature.

[bombtrack]

Wraith, on Jan 24 2004, 07:01 AM, said:

IRC Server: irc.liquified.net
Channel: #XPinstall

im there, come there, ill dcc u the visual style

[bombtrack]

pervert, on Jan 27 2004, 09:49 PM, said:

also, who had that hacked installer "Collecting information...  Notifying Police" etc. I also want that, or to know which files i need to hex edit or resource edit to come up with something similar.

u meen this ? http://www.MSFN.org/...?showtopic=8385

[BaTLeZone]

is it posible to use this with GM's XPCREATE??

if so, how and were would it go?

[bombtrack]

i thought this (xpinstall) was kind of an xpcreate replacement , very unsure of this though Bcause i never used xpcreate b4

[killerbee]

OMG,

i used ./ instead of .\
i'm to deep into Unix i think sometimes

thx for that point - i'll go to bed now - i think it'll be better not being tired when upgrading to v1.5

cya

Killer Bee

[Alanoll]

XPCREATE slipstreams hotfixes and adds RunOnceEX entries....

this does neither. If you use the RunOnceEX method, you could just add a key to the XPInstall program...or....at cmdlines.txt stage run the XPInstall.

I'd like to think of this more of an add on to other methods. Like using RunOnce, you can have multiple reboots but still use this program with different XMLs.

Hope that helps, if not, I might be able to explain further, as at times i am quite vague

[bombtrack]

v1.5 looks good thx
config:

<config>
  <!-- if XPinstall finds a window with this name, it will hide it during execution -->
  <hidewindow>Windows Update</hidewindow>
  
  <!-- this tells XPinstall how many items to show at one time (does not include current item description) -->
  <!-- and how many items to show that are coming after the current -->
  <show total='6' after='2'></show>
  
  <!-- these two control the font face and size of XPinstall -->
  <!-- antialias ==> true : false -->
  <font face='Verdana' antialias='true'></font>
  <font small='8' large='11'></font>
  
  <!-- this controls the window width -->
  <width>440</width>

  <!-- all colours are in the format #RRGGBBAA - where AA is transparency value. -->
  <!-- FF == fully opaque, 00 == fully invisible. If no AA, it defaults to FF -->
  <colours>
  	<!-- the header footer, and progress colours -->
  	<!-- image attributes are optional - if not specified, normal background -->
  	<header back='#3F464C' fore='#FFFFFF' image=''></header>
  	<footer back='#3F464C' fore='#FFFFFF' image=''></footer>	
  	<progress border='#FFFFFFAA' back='#00000000' fore='#FFFFFFAA'></progress>	
  	
  	<!-- colours used in main section -->
  	<main back='#4A6FD6' fore='#FFFFFF' image='%XPINSTALL%\images\main.bmp'></main>
  	<main current='#FF8000' description='#FFFFFF'></main>
  </colours>
  
  <!-- string table -->
  <strings>
    <!-- the heading that gets shown in the dialog -->
    <title>Post-Install Configuration</title>
    <!-- the string to use for "complete" -->
    <complete>complete</complete>
  </strings>
	</config>

EDIT: if anybody wants the main.jpg BG just ask me here or in #xpinstall

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[Wraith]

Nowhere near as cool as:

[bombtrack]

yes, i just love how u have your boarders on the progress bar

[visaversa]

Quote

Hey what version of WMP9 should I use cause when xpinstall trys to install WMP9 I keep gettin errors about how system restore is turned off or disabled. I noticed Wraith's version is called MPSETUP.exe whereas mine is called MPSETUPXP.exe. Do I have to have system restore enabled?

One of the techies here, well no answer yet?
I have the same with others versions to, dutch and spanish and english.

@X-Ecutioner, try to use the opk version wmp9_mm2 you can find HERE
they don't produce that error.

Still looking for an answer from the pro's? why this error happens @stage t-9

@wraith, good job untill now...

WW

[Wraith]

My version is a repacked one from an XPCREATE cd I tried to make but failed.

Try making an XPCREATE cd and just pull the MPSETUP.exe from that.






As a side note, I've released v1.6 - only fixed up progress bars. Check the first post for the link.

[Alanoll]

WMP gets the no systemrestore message because either you disabled it or it has started yet.

add this after the exe /DisallowSystemRestore
its casesensitive, so just cut and paste