doskitXPx86

[Ed Dyreen]

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To all win7 32bit users, help !

There seem to be problems with the setup.CMD

I downloaded it but I don't get it to run.
It fails first when I execute setup.CMD. It opens a second window and interrupts with an error message that a (cryptic) label was not found

Regards

BTW I'm on Win7 Starter x86 but I guess that's not the problem.

[aGerman]

Hi Ed.

A first try with echo on shows the following problems:

1st - line 20 ff

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    echo. 'CMD.EXE'
   echo.%comspec% |>nul find.EXE "CMD.EXE"
   if not ["%errorlevel%"] == ["%errorlevel%"]    set "$err=wrong command line interpreter, need cmd."

My comspec expands to a lower case cmd.exe. Include option /i.
What's the meaning of if not ["%errorlevel%"] == ["%errorlevel%"]

2nd - line 81

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      call :§!$installMethod! &set /a $err = !errorlevel!

!$installMethod! expands to nothing, currently I don't know why. For that reason the label cannot be found. (The Paragraph character was the cryptic character I told you via PM. It looks very different in ASCII).

Regards
aGerman

[aGerman]

[edit by Ed Dyreen 02 Feb 2012] Shortened.

OK, that's what I did to debug your setup.CMD (line numbers prepended to show where I changed the script):

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[  1]@prompt $g$s &REM *** @echo off
[ 11]   REM *** cls
[ 60]      REM *** >nul 2>&1 "mode.COM" con: lines=25 cols=80
[ 73]      REM *** cls
[ 89]      >nul 2>&1 ping 0.0.0.0 &pause
[176]      REM *** cls
[208]      REM *** cls
[230]   REM *** cls %=                   clearscreen may be needed to force close on exiting an 'old' OS =%

My output:

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>  echo.preparing installation...
preparing installation...

>  rd /s /q "!$installPath!" 2>nul

>  call :º!$installMethod!   & set /a $err = !errorlevel!
Das Sprungziel - º wurde nicht gefunden.

>  echo.


>  if !$err! EQU 0 (echo.installation succes. )  else echo.installation failure.
installation failure.

>  ping 0.0.0.0  1>nul 2>&1  & pause
Drücken Sie eine beliebige Taste . . .

Das Sprungziel - º wurde nicht gefunden. => Label - º was not found.

Not sure, but I guess this should always happen if it was not called via silentSetup.CMD But silentSetup.CMD causes another Problem on Win7: By default (UAC) you can't create a folder in C: root without elevated admin privileges.

Regards
aGerman

[Ed Dyreen]

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Thanks a, I'll look into it

What's the meaning of if not ["%errorlevel%"] == ["%errorlevel%"]

Obviously that's to check whether the CPU is drunk

Win7: By default (UAC) you can't create a folder in C: root without elevated admin privileges.

Right...
From an unattended installation script to a multifunctual library
Therefor I expect elevated/administrator rights by design.

[aGerman]

Therefor I expect elevated/administrator rights by design.

On Vista/Win7 you could "Run As Administrator" via right-click, but in this case the batch runs in %SystemRoot%\System32. You need to change the working directory to the batch folder.

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:: Admin check
fsutil fsinfo drives|findstr /c:":\\">nul ||(
  echo You don't work with elevated administrative privileges.
  echo Right-click and "Run As Administrator"!
  pause>nul &goto :eof
)
:: switch into batch folder
cd /d "%~dp0"

Regards
aGerman

[Ed Dyreen]

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I fix the drunk "%errorlevel%" == "%errorlevel%" check, thanks

Das Sprungziel - º wurde nicht gefunden. => Label - º was not found.

Not sure, but I guess this should always happen if it was not called via silentSetup.CMD

I can't generate that error, with me it calls the label



Starting from v2012.01.31, I don't think it matters anymore, I implemented code that doesn't allow anything else than XP.

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for /f "usebackq tokens=3" %%? in (`ver`) do (
   ::
   echo. '%%~?' &if "%%~?" neq "XP" set "$err=Your OS Vista/Win7 is too old, please update to WinXP :)"
)

By the way, ich habe das verstehen, I'm Dutch remember, we're not that different.

[Squashman]

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I'm Dutch remember, we're not that different.

I always love this movie quote: "All right Goldmember. Don't play the laughing boy. There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch. "

It' funny because it contradicts itself and who can really hate the Dutch. What have they really done to hurt anyone over the last few centuries.

Sorry to get off topic.

[timbertuck]

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Thanks to Jeb and Aacini, the console will soon support colorText

why does this not support win 7 x86?

[Ed Dyreen]

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I'll build a mini-DOS-kit compatible with 7 and stripped from all external apps to provide the basics starting right now,
or maybe some other day

[gymiv]

I have looked on both pages for a download site and cannot find what you are trying to tell me. Can you point me to the download site you are refering to? I am using win7

[Ed Dyreen]

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Download site should work now.

[Squashman]

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Download site should work now.

Not Found

The requested URL /public/ was not found on this server.

[foxidrive]

The link works here atm.

[Squashman]

Only works for me if I remove PUBLIC from the path.

[Ed Dyreen]

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I use cheap shared hosting, so if you get this apache server's indexing service problem, wait a few days then try again.

Not Found

The requested URL /public/ was not found on this server.

Unfortunately there's nothing I can do about that.


I'm sorry.