hi yall trying to do silent install of my adobe pgms so im attempting to record an .iss file and then run it, but when i run setup.exe /s it doesnt do anythign in windows or dos? any suggestions?

also is it possible to show a progress bar or something to show its working?

Find the .iss file and make sure it looks ok, put it in the same spot as your installer, and start it with -s, then if it fails, look at the error code inside the log file, that will tell you what went wrong.

where would i find the log file? and what dfo you meanm check to see if it's ok?

Make a log file by doing Setup.exe -s -f2"%systemdrive%\software.log"

Great! tahnsk for the help i c that it's installinf fine and all.

is there any way to show a visual cue as to when it's done installing???

also for my batch install file... how would i script this if i have several items so that they all dont start at once? i believe its using the /wait switch but correct em if i'm wrong. so would this example be correct???

ie... if i have the following

echo.

echo Installing MS Office 2003 Pro

ECHO Please wait...

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\Office2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-

echo.

echo. Installing Adobe Pagemaker 7.0

ECHP Please wait...

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\Adobe\Pagemaker 7.0\setup.exe -s -f2"pagemakerlog.log"

echo.

echo. Installing Adobe Premier 6.0

ECHP Please wait...

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\Adobe\Premier 6.0\setup.exe -s -f2"premierlog.log"

pause

exit

would this be correct???

thanks!!!

Was hoping I can get some help here, my last file to convert and can't get it going. I am trying to do D-Link Software packed with installShield. There several ways I've tried to work this

1st

setup.exe -R

but doesn't create an .iss file at all.

2nd

Setup.exe -s -f2"%systemdrive%\dlink.log"

doesn't create the log unless i remove the 2 or 1 in other cases. Has to be just the -f for it to run. otherwise i get a mssg stating that "There is not enough space

on drive 2dlink.log\ to extract this package. Please free up 2.88 MB and click Retry."

And of course I have 100gb hard drive. So i don't understand this.

If I run it with just the -f instead of the -f2 it will start the program but will still ask me to click on next to continue, so not much of a silent install

I'd appreciate any help thx

it may be that Dlink's setup is not an InstallShield but rather Wise or something else.

I've tested out if it other methods and no results. when I click to install I do get the InstallShield menu. Wouldn't that mean it is using instalshield?