Re: [wpkg-users] MSI + MST: MST somewhat ignored when silent install
G'day all Thanks for Paul and Geoff's answers - I wanted to answer when I had the opportunity to try another time. The installshield wasn't one with .iss - the logs clearly showed it was only doing a custom install but other customization like Icons and so forth were recognized by the MST install. I finally stumbled upon the variable INSTALLEVEL which had the value 100. When found this document over here: http://kb.flexerasoftware.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalID=Q103232 I tried Installlevel = 150 and it worked also silently - yay :-) Just need to wrap this up in a nice WPKG xml and make up the 3 other parts of this software. I hope I can give back the MST and XML into the wiki seems to be a software our german Bio and Chemistry teachers seem to like so (too) much ;-) Thank you guys! -- Mathieu - wpkg-users mailing list archives http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
Re: [wpkg-users] MSI + MST: MST somewhat ignored when silent install
G'day This is not strictly related to WPKG but I have been pondering upon some school software Rund um ... Biologie heute which I'd like to package with WPKG. Normally total of 6 CDs so it's definitely not a joy to play disk jockey... ;-) Its Setup.exe has a /a switch for Admin/Network-Installation and copies the complete content of all 6 disks to a folder, and then contains a MSI. I want the Software to be installed completely on the local disks. The interactive MSI installer says InstallShield so I guess it has been made with this software. I have been able to create a MST with Orca.exe: What confuses me is that when doing a interactive installation with the MST, the options I have modified via the MST are correctly pre-chosen (msiexec /i msi TRANSFORMS=mytransform.mst) in the installer like Start Menu location, and complete Installation option - but when I do a reduced (msiexec /qr) or silent (/qn) silent install, it only does a typical install which requires CDs to be inserted for the user (not what I'd like). Is there a good way to look more closely where I'm biting myself with InstallShield's MSI? Best regards Mathieu - wpkg-users mailing list archives http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
Re: [wpkg-users] MSI + MST: MST somewhat ignored when silent install
Am 14.05.2012 22:42, schrieb Mathieu Simon: What confuses me is that when doing a interactive installation with the MST, the options I have modified via the MST are correctly pre-chosen (msiexec /imsi TRANSFORMS=mytransform.mst) in the installer like Start Menu location, and complete Installation option - but when I do a reduced (msiexec /qr) or silent (/qn) silent install, it only does a typical install which requires CDs to be inserted for the user (not what I'd like). Have you tried the msiexec switch /passive instead of the old /q... switches? Does the network install still include a setup.exe file? What does setup.exe /? tell you? Can you contact the software vendor for additional installation instructions? You know, InstallShield is bad :-P -- Stefan P. Top-posting: A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? - wpkg-users mailing list archives http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
Re: [wpkg-users] MSI + MST: MST somewhat ignored when silent install
Hi Mathieu, as well as the /PASSIVE already suggested sometimes an Installshield installer will only run from a mapped drive letter path and not a UNC. I have one app which I have to copy to the local C drive to run with /PASSIVE. Usually just /TRANSFORMS=%SOFTWARE%/app/apptrans.mst works for my installshield apps even if it is specified in the setup.ini I still put it on the cmd line as the setup.exe doesn't seem to know to look for the setup.ini in the folder it has been run from. Play with some other silent switches like (capitals) /S, /SILENT, /VERYSILENT. Most of my installshield installers have required me to record (-r) a setup.ISS file wihhch you then put after the setup.exe with a -s -f1%SOFTWARE%\app\setup.iss. It depends on the version of Installshield your program uses. Paul From: wpkg-users-boun...@lists.wpkg.org [wpkg-users-boun...@lists.wpkg.org] On Behalf Of Mathieu Simon [mathieu@gmail.com] Sent: 14 May 2012 21:42 To: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] MSI + MST: MST somewhat ignored when silent install G'day This is not strictly related to WPKG but I have been pondering upon some school software Rund um ... Biologie heute which I'd like to package with WPKG. Normally total of 6 CDs so it's definitely not a joy to play disk jockey... ;-) Its Setup.exe has a /a switch for Admin/Network-Installation and copies the complete content of all 6 disks to a folder, and then contains a MSI. I want the Software to be installed completely on the local disks. The interactive MSI installer says InstallShield so I guess it has been made with this software. I have been able to create a MST with Orca.exe: What confuses me is that when doing a interactive installation with the MST, the options I have modified via the MST are correctly pre-chosen (msiexec /i msi TRANSFORMS=mytransform.mst) in the installer like Start Menu location, and complete Installation option - but when I do a reduced (msiexec /qr) or silent (/qn) silent install, it only does a typical install which requires CDs to be inserted for the user (not what I'd like). Is there a good way to look more closely where I'm biting myself with InstallShield's MSI? Best regards Mathieu - wpkg-users mailing list archives http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users - wpkg-users mailing list archives http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
