[Unattended] Re: Unattended 4.0 fails to Install Perl

2008-05-29 Thread Eric
10 seconds wouldn't cut it for me. I had to use a 20 second delay on dual 3.6GHz Xeons (although I didn't try 11-19). Maintainer: Would it be worth adding a few more seconds onto this fix in perl.bat? Thanks for this tip! -

[Unattended] Re: Unattended 4.0 fails to Install Perl

2004-03-18 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
"Johnson, Chris A -ND" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I only used a 10 second delay, and it worked like a charm. I hate random delays. But since we do not even know what we are waiting for, never mind how to wait for it from a cmd shell, I do not see any choice. I have added a 10-second delay to

[Unattended] RE: Unattended 4.0 fails to Install Perl

2004-03-18 Thread Johnson, Chris A -ND
> -Original Message- > From: Patrick J. LoPresti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The next step, I guess, is to add something like this to the top of > perl.bat: > > ping -n 120 localhost > nul > I only used a 10 second delay, and it worked like a charm. Maybe I'll try 5 seconds next t

[Unattended] Re: Unattended 4.0 fails to Install Perl

2004-03-17 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
"Johnson, Chris A -ND" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So I'm still not sure whether it's time dependent or not. Very > frustrating though! The next step, I guess, is to add something like this to the top of perl.bat: ping -n 120 localhost > nul This will sleep for two minutes before attempti

[Unattended] RE: Unattended 4.0 fails to Install Perl

2004-03-17 Thread Johnson, Chris A -ND
> -Original Message- > From: Patrick J. LoPresti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Maybe the service just takes a while to fire up the first > time. Could you open a cmd prompt after the failure and run > "z:\scripts\perl.bat" > by hand? In fact, the action of running a command prompt (Ct

Re: [Unattended] Re: Unattended 4.0 fails to Install Perl

2004-03-17 Thread Jordan Share
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: "Johnson, Chris A -ND" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Let me know if you have any ideas, I know WS2K isn't on the officially supported list, though. We certainly aspire to support it. It is very, very similar to Win2k. It has a few hotfixes unique to itself which we do no

[Unattended] Re: Unattended 4.0 fails to Install Perl

2004-03-17 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
"Johnson, Chris A -ND" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Synopsis: Unattended installation using Windows 2000 Server goes > great. Then it fails to complete the perl installation. Hm. I have installed 2000 Server using Unattended before, but it has been a while. > It auto-logs on successfully (as