floko84

Why not just put: ;WINNT.SIF [Components] Games = Onafter you edited sysoc.inf and copied the right files on cd?

@for /f "delims=" %%i in ('dir /b /s /ad') do @if exist "%%i\install.cmd" call "%%i\install.cmd"

No variables for this as there can be quite a few removable drives in any system. You can however create your own variable in the windows setup scripts, i.e. in a .cmd that is run from cmdlines.txt, add: reg.exe add HKCU\Environment /v CDROM /d %~d0\ /f This gives you a CDROM variable containing the drive letter of the location of the script, your windows cd - but it won't reflect system changes after setup, so use is very limited. You may use %~d0\ in other steps of your installation, as long as its in a .cmd file. (%~dp0 gives you the complete dir of your script) Flo

Seeing how other people take interest in this specialized topic (@mvsnaniou), I'd like to add a recent find: The DOS-LOGO project They made a driver that apparently works on older versions (but not FreeDos) and reads a logo.sys. Untested, but looks like a complete emulation including animation and escape-key override! In any case, the gallery of logos includes nice ones for MS-DOS 6.x/7.x Flo

Hello Unattenders, making custom packages is what tweaking any software setup is all about. I think the usual method is to simply create a sfx-archive with your favorite archiver, which I really dont like as I want packages that give me a nice visible setup when double clicked, with the option to make it unattended. Inspired by this post I set out to find a newer version of this sfx, and preferably in english since that one has some turkish resources in it - and find it I did: SfxCab features: subdirs in archive parameter passed to default action/command no config file clutter, very 3rd party unpacker friendly not signed like IExpress packages, i.e. some archivers may be able to modify it SfxCab limitations: command must be an exefile without parameters can't override default command with something else no fancy icon, in fact no icon whatsoever Make your own: Compress your files cabarc -m LZX:21 -p -r N ..\outfile.cab *.* stub only works with LZX compression Flag the executable open outfile.cab in a hex editor and edit the cab header for your executable like this: 20 00 setup.exe => 60 00 setup.exe all other files should have a 20 00 flag - if not, use cabarc and not a 3rd party archiver Build the sfx copy /b sfxcab.exe + outfile.cab outfile.exe If you only have an MSI, use setupbld.exe from WIX 3.0+ to convert it to exe. Find other "Self-Extracting Cabinet" stubs: The attached stub is taken from the english IE7 setup, the cab-data starts at the 3rd occurrence of "MSCF". Happy installing, Flo sfxcab.zip