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Offline Bill Bixby

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Legacy machine not picking up package
« on: January 09, 2008, 03:27:30 PM »
I have 12 legacy machines in a Music room all configured using sysprep so all identical and all the hardware is identical, nothing else done to them apart from moving them into the correct OU.  One of them refuses to install Sibelius 5 software msi, just does nothing, the rest pick up the package perfectly, any ideas?
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Re: Legacy machine not picking up package
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2008, 03:30:07 PM »
Install it manually and forget about it.
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Re: Legacy machine not picking up package
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2008, 03:33:06 PM »
I tried copying the MSI to the workstation and installing it but it kept failing saying it was corrupt, bloody software is on a DVD and all the workstations only have CD drives.  ::)
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Re: Legacy machine not picking up package
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2008, 03:40:00 PM »
copy the dvd to a removable drive or if they are networked copy to a shared folder and delete when finished
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Re: Legacy machine not picking up package
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2008, 03:58:51 PM »
Beginning to think it's the DVD drive.  Put a DVD drive in the machine that it won't install on (I used this DVD drive to copy the msi to a shared area yesterday, which then said was corrupt), every time I try to install I get corrupt cab file errors.  Tried 3 copies of the disk, two of them just out of the packet.....will go try another DVD drive
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Re: Legacy machine not picking up package
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2008, 06:40:34 PM »
This is really starting to hack me off.  After putting in a different DVD drive and starting the computer the msi package started to install, but it didn't work, nothing there when I logged on.

Tried installing from the different DVD drive, same problem as before, says the installer package is corrupt or the disk is damaged.

Changed the IDE cables, still no joy.

So so far it doesn't copy from the disk, it doesn't automatically install from the network like all the other machines and it won't let me install from a shared area over the network and I sysprep'd a disk with the software on it but that didn't work (licence check over the internet).  What's left?
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Re: Legacy machine not picking up package
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2008, 08:58:16 AM »
Have you tried changing the network card if the machine has an on board card install a pci one, I recently had a machine that would not fully ghost and fitting a new network card sorted it out. ???

Other than that is the computer connecting to the correct dns server sometimes the DHCP server fails to send the details and you have to install them manually. :(
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Re: Legacy machine not picking up package
« Reply #7 on: January 10, 2008, 09:03:41 AM »
...I gave up and pinched a computer from elsewhere...didn't try the network card as it was able to do everything else over the network.  Don't know about the DNS server issue, they all get their DNS settings from the DHCP server and the rest of them work OK, guess I'll never know now
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Re: Legacy machine not picking up package
« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2008, 08:56:15 AM »
is the PC in question a Dell GX270 by any chance?
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