MSI install hangs in task sequence

[burnzdog]

Hi All,

Im currently building lots of packages that will eventually be slipped into the build process for Windows 7.

I have an issue with a package I have created for Adobe Reader. If i run the command line manually it works fine on my win7 build:
msiexec /i "AcroRead.msi" ALLUSERS=1 /qb /norestart TRANSFORMS="AcroRead.mst"
I created a package and created the distribution point, then added to my Task Sequence. The install starts but just hangs during install.
Few questions:-

1) Which package is best created for MSI installs via command line; standard package or by defination?

2) Is there any way to run the task sequence manually so that I don't have to rebuild the machine just to test the package?

3) If I update the command line of my package do I have to update the distribution point?

Thanks

[Rocket Man]

Have you tried manually running the package from a share and not just locally?

 

You may need to put %~dp0 in front of both files so it should like this:

 

msiexec /i "%~dp0AcroRead.msi" ALLUSERS=1 TRANSFORMS="%~dp0AcroRead.mst" /qb /norestart

 

Browse to the package in the DP share the way you have it at the moment and try and run, if it does not then, try the above command line instead.