Wednesday, 01 September 2010 00:00
During a Lotus Notes 8.5.2 rollout I found out that there is a bug in the setup.exe from the Lotus Notes 8.5.2 installer kit.
The bug prevent the installer from using a MST file like mentioned in my installation guide here:
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13 II a.) modifize setup.ini
Another way to install lotus notes is to modifize the setup.ini
13 II b.) open the setup.ini in the lotus notesfolder
13 II c.) change the "CmdLine=" entry to "CmdLine= TRANSFORMS=mytransformfile.mst /qb+" to install Lotus Notes silently without user interaction or to "CmdLine= TRANSFORMS=mytransformfile.mst" if you wish to allow the user to change some options during installation.
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Together with IBM I was able to reproduce the issue and they build a hotfix for that issue which is working for me.
If you have similar issues, please get in contact with your local IBM Support, to request your own hotfix (please mention the SPR BWWG88P524 or the URL here, so that the support knows what you need).
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The issue has been reported to Lotus QE as SPR # BWWG88P524 via APAR # LO54305.
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IBM says there is no hotfix for this problem...
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IBM's reply:
Hello Mardell,
This is not a match to SPR BWWG88P524.
The SPR is for defining in the Transform within the setup.ini file. The SPR advises of the workaround of using the command:
setup.exe /s /v"TRANSFORMS=all.mst"
If you can try the following command:
setup /s /v"TRANSFORMS=preloader.mst"
Note: no space after the first quote
Does this then work?
Kind Regards
Haris Sheikh
IBM said there is no hotfix for this probmlem...
Here is IBM's reply:
Hello Mardell,
This is not a match to SPR BWWG88P524.
The SPR is for defining in the Transform within the setup.ini file. The SPR advises of the workaround of using the command:
setup.exe /s /v"TRANSFORMS=all.mst"
If you can try the following command:
setup /s /v"TRANSFORMS=preloader.mst"
Note: no space after the first quote
Does this then work?
Kind Regards
Haris Sheikh
I'm not sure if you were advised to use the same switch as above and the mst file here - http://www-01.ibm.com/support/...g21424193. I did try the one on their technote but it also did not work. Will you be able to send me a copy of the hotfix they gave you?
Thanks,
Mardell
No hotfix says IBM...
Here is IBM's reply:
Hello Mardell,
This is not a match to SPR BWWG88P524.
The SPR is for defining in the Transform within the setup.ini file. The SPR advises of the workaround of using the command:
setup.exe /s /v"TRANSFORMS=all.mst"
If you can try the following command:
setup /s /v"TRANSFORMS=preloader.mst"
Note: no space after the first quote
Does this then work?
Kind Regards
Haris Sheikh
I'm not sure if you were advised to use the same switch as above and the mst file here - http://www-01.ibm.com/support/...g21424193. I did try the one on their technote but it also did not work. Will you be able to send me a copy of the hotfix they gave you?
Thanks,
Mardell
IBM said there is no hotfix...
Thanks very much.
Mardell
