Yeah, I remembered seeing those issues back when other people had them. That's why I commented out the Win2ksp4-updates.bat (and thus also ie6.bat). I still had the problem after the first .reboot was conducted. I have no idea why putting a batch file in the startup group is more reliable than putting it in the registry, but at least I have a working solution now. I'll just have to remember the changes I made anytime I upgrade to a new version of unattended so that I don't overwrite the changes I made.
-----Original Message----- From: Don Morrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 9:38 PM To: Rampanelli Michael J Cc: Unattended Info ([email protected]) Subject: RE: [Unattended] Re: Problem after first reboot Mike, I tested the install of win2ksp4 yesterday and had the problem you describe. In looking at the archives I found some people were having some issues last part of 2004. One of the suggestions was to follow the directions in ..packages/ie6sp1/README.txt: "This directory holds the install files for Internet Explorer v6 Service Pack 1. You need to download it from Microsoft and then run: ie6setup.exe /c:"ie6wzd.exe /d /s:""#E" You might also need to modify the script in install/scripts/ to install it." I performed these steps and they seemed to solve the problem with todo.pl not running after ie6sp1 setup. However, I am now having the issue with the ie6 security warning dialogs coming up. Twice. I love my job. :) Don ________________________________ From: Rampanelli Michael J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 4:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Unattended] Re: Problem after first reboot Ok, I figured out a work-around for this problem. I modified todo.pl so that instead of writing to the registry to start itself on a reboot, it copies a batch file to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup. The batch file simply calls c:\netinst\mapZnrun.bat z:\bin\todo.pl --go. Putting this batch file there seems to be more reliable than using the registry to autorun things. Any chance this could get incorporated into Unattended? Mike ======================================================================== ==== === I"m using Unattended v4.6 to install Windows 2000 Server SP4 and some other things. Here"s the problem. Windows installs without a problem. Perl installs fine. Base.bat kicks in and starts running Win2ksp4-updates. The first update which requires a reboot comes (I believe it is IE6). Windows reboots, but when it boots up, todo.pl doesn"t keep installing things. I checked the c-drive and there are still lots of items in the todo.txt. I checked the registry and Windows is set to run "mapznrun.bat todo.pl --go" but for some reason it doesn"t run it. The computer auto logged in correctly. If I reboot the computer or log off and back on, it takes off again without any further problems (even rebooting correctly). I thought maybe it had something to do with an update that it was trying to install, so I commented out the Win2kSP4-updates in the base.bat. The same thing happened - after the first reboot, windows doesn"t run the command to kick things off again. I"ve tried it on a different computer and the same thing happens. Has anyone had this happen? I don"t want to have to tell the users that they have to manually reboot after Windows is installed in order to finish installing the software. Mike ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
