Re: hotifxes - installing unattended

From: Patrick J. LoPresti (patl@users.sourceforge.net)
Date: 09/21/02


From: patl@users.sourceforge.net (Patrick J. LoPresti)
Date: 21 Sep 2002 12:06:30 -0400


"Philip Kime" <Philip@kime.org.uk> writes:

> I'm getting really fed up with having to deal with
> different hotfixes and varying command-line options. I'm
> trying to get together a system for rolling out hotfixes
> via WMI using Win32_Process and it works for some
> hotfixes but not others. Take the latest MS VM hotfix out
> yesterday (Q329077). It seems to be using older hotfix
> command-line options - none of the new update.exe options
> that XP hotfixes are supposed to take. It only
> takes /Q /T /C and *always* asks whether you want to
> reboot. I want to do a silent install and then reboot,
> without asking. Anybody know if there is a flag for this
> with this older type of installer?

See

    <http://unattended.sourceforge.net/installers.html#hotfixes>

The /r:n switch seems to do the trick for Q329077.

 - Pat



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