Software Deployment

Hi,

Rational Functional Tester 8.0 uses IBM Installation Manager to install silently. That's not the problem I've got that working.
It's standard here that the user sees a progress bar or some window that let's them know that a particular software is being installed.

For software like Rational Functional Tester, we use a .hta script, works like a charm.
The problem I'm facing is that I need a 'variable' for the repository location inside the "answer" file I created. (answer.xml)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<agent-input acceptLicense='true'>
<server>
<repository location='C:\Functional Tester\disk1'/>

I tried this:
<repository location='.' />
but doesn't work.

Anybody out there ran into this and found a solution?

Thanks
~Gizsha