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Dear Experts,

I want to make an installation CD of a SW and I have created an autorun.info which calls a bat file.
Setup.exe is an installshield EXE created software.
/v passes the parameters to MsiExec.exe to execute.

The bat file includes:
Setup.exe /v" InstallDir=D:\Folder\ /log D:\Syntergy\Logs\InstallationLog.log /qn+"

This works perfect. However I would like to Install the SW under D:\Program Files\Folder1 folder.
How can I pass this path to the InstallDir flag ??

The following line does not work!
Setup.exe /v" InstallDir=D:\Program Files\Folder\ /log D:\Syntergy\Logs\InstallationLog.log /qn+"

Thanks,
Dimitris.

Goto http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/

They have all you need, it is quite possible that the installer simple does not accept @installdir!

What program are you trying to unattend ?, If you succeed, it is much appreciated if u post your result !

run msiexec without params, you'll get a help screen

You need to examine your program &GOOGLE, they are all different in the way they install unfortunately!
or try something like


INF Files can be used to install and remove applications, general
files, etc. To script an INF file to install or remove, you call the
RunDLL32 application from a script using the following syntax:

128: Never reboot
129: Always Silent Reboot
132: Prompt reboot

Windows 9x:

Installation: rundll setupx.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 128 .\MyFile.INF

Uninstall: rundll setupx.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultUninstall 4 .\MyFile.INF

Windows NT/2000/XP:

Installation: rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 128 .\MyFile.INF
or : rundll32 syssetup,SetupInfObjectInstallAction DefaultInstall 128 .\MyFile.INF

Uninstall : rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultUninstall 128 .\MyFile.INF
or : rundll32 syssetup,SetupInfObjectInstallAction DefaultUninstall 128 .\MyFile.INF

Wise Setup.exe Switches

/T test mode
/X pathname extracts files into pathname
/Z pathname extracts files into pathname and reboots
/S silent install
/M prompts for windows, system, temp dirs
/M=filename specifies a value file similar to /d above,
but for standard variables
/M1 same as /m plus it prompts before any file that is self-registered
/M2 reserved for internal use by Wise during debugger sessions

Uninstall (Unwise.exe switches)

/Z remove empty directories, including one with unwise itself in it.
/A automatic mode, no user choices other than cancel.
/S silent mode, automatic mode with no user choices
/R rollback mode, selects option to rollback on uninstall
/U like automatic mode, but gives all choices other than custom/automatic
title window title can be at the end of the command line.

Download these programs, they are GREAT
CMenu.exe
InstallTailor.msi
robosetup.exe
ussf.exe
WICLB.exe

Thank you Ed for your help.
I think (not quite sure) that since the MSI is embded in a setup.exe created by InstallShield software there is a way to pass parameters to the MSI when this is extracted and executed. This can be implemented by using the -v command line argument.

The problem here has to do with passing a string:
this is a string having quotes iside: This is a " quotes string

If I use non-blank paths everything works fine...

Hello !!
I finally found a solution:
"Setup.exe" /v" /log \"D:\Program Files\Syntergy\Logs\InstallationLog.log\" /qn+ INSTALLDIR=\"D:\Program Files\Syntergy\""

The Program Ed is Replicator software for replicating content between SharePoint farms.
Thnks a lot!

I see, well since it is an MSI you could try using a transformation file.

U catch thIS MSI from %TMP% during setup.

U can then create a transform.MST using for example InstallTailor

start "!TITLE!" /low /wait "%SystemROOT%\system32\msiexec.EXE" /I "!TITLE!.MSI" /QN TRANSFORMS="!TITLE!.MST"

But if I were you I would use AutoIT, because it is so easy and so satisfying

I'm glad u solved it