Maya 8.5 silent install?

[oldbaitcaster]

Hello,

New member here. I'm trying to find a way to silently install maya 8.5. I have a renderfarm in a college lab setting and this needs to be installed on around 40 machines so this would really be a time saver. Does anyone have any experience creating a batch for this?

Greatly appreciated!

[radix]

First copy the content of CD/DVD/image in a folder named Autodesk_Maya_8.5

Place one of the next batch files in the root of the folder Autodesk_Maya_8.5:

Maya_x86_install.bat if you install in Windows XP x86:

@echo off

start /wait %systemdrive%\Autodesk_Maya_8.5\Maya\win\Maya\Maya8.5.msi /qn

start /wait %systemdrive%\Autodesk_Maya_8.5\Maya\win\Maya\AutodeskDirectConnect2.0.msi /qn

start /wait %systemdrive%\Autodesk_Maya_8.5\Maya\win\Maya\Maya_Docs_en_US8.5.msi /qn

rd /s /q "%systemdrive%\Autodesk_Maya_8.5"

exit

Maya_x64_install.bat if you install in Windows XP x64:

@echo off

start /wait %systemdrive%\Autodesk_Maya_8.5\Maya\win-amd64\Maya\Maya8.5.msi /qn

start /wait %systemdrive%\Autodesk_Maya_8.5\Maya\win-amd64\Maya\Maya_Docs_en_US8.5.msi /qn

rd /s /q "%systemdrive%\Autodesk_Maya_8.5"

exit

If your folders configuration is diferent, you can change the path of the folders in the batch file.

Now you can make a sfx archive for the content of folder Autodesk_Maya_8.5 using WinRAR with these options:

-In SFX options->Path to extract write %systemdrive%\Autodesk_Maya_8.5

-In SFX options->Run after extraction, write %systemdrive%\Autodesk_Maya_8.5\Maya_x86_install.bat

or %systemdrive%\Autodesk_Maya_8.5\Maya_x64_install.bat

etc.

[oldbaitcaster]

That's awesome. I'll give this a try tomorrow!

[oldbaitcaster]

I've got an install executable for Maya 8.5 SP1, what would be the best way to convert this to an MSI extension? Apologies for the surely elementary question.

[radix]

It's simple: start the SP1 installer, accept EULA and when unpacked is finished, go to Temp folder and copy from there

Maya8.5.msi and AutodeskDirectConnect2.0.msi and install them in this order with switch /qn /norestart