Automatic Install

[mckinney@att.com]

VNC'ers:
Win 9x / NT:

Install shield seems to have the following options ( from my non-scientific
testing)
setup -r  :  records the options that you select into a setup.iss file that
will be in either your %systemroot% or in the install directory
setup -s  :  runs the install in Silent mode.  If you want to specify the
setup.iss to answer the questions you would use the following syntax:
setup -s c:\setup.iss

Result codes:  If your auto install fails, there will be a setup.log file in
the installation directory.  I did not find an exact reference for the
errors but this is what seems to be correct:
result code = -5  : could not find the setup.iss file
result code = -12 : something in the setup.iss file is not correct  ( a
question was not answered or was answered incorrectly )

I am not sure what the -i option does.  Anyone have a list of the
InstallShield command line switches ?

-Joe 

-----Original Message-----
From: James [Wez] Weatherall [mailto:jnw "at" uk.research.att.com]
Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 3:05 AM
To: 'vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com'
Subject: Re: Automatic Install


On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Travis Llewellyn wrote:

> Is there a way under Win95 / 98 that I can do a silent Install?  It is
easy
> enough to call the person and walk then through the install but I would
like
> then to just run a batch file that I have setup to do the setup and the
> winvnc -install routine. Thanks in advance.
> Travis Llewellyn
> Network Administrator
> Communication Federal Credit Union
> mailto:travisll "at" comfedcu.org

Apparently InstallShield has features to do this, via a -i command-line
option, which creates a log of an install which you can then replay on
other machines.

I've never tried this, though - it just can up on the list so perhaps a
search on the mailing list archives would help?

Cheers,

James "Wez" Weatherall
--
- Queens' College MCR Entertainments Officer - 
Laboratory for Communications Engineering, Cambridge - Tel : 766513
AT&T Labs Cambridge, UK                              - Tel : 343000


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