Installrite Saved Me Lots Of Aggro!

[simply_simon]

I've used Installrite to create silent installs for around 75% of my installs and found this solution not only saved time on hunting down switches etc., but also seemed to install quicker than the original installers. Compression is generally good, but I found that some installers were upto 25% bigger than previous. This was not a problem as my install was from a DVD.

One more thing, the best way to accomplish installs is on a clean system and by not rebooting after installs. This way you get as close a match as possible to the sort of circumstances you would get during an unattended setup.

However, not all progs will install well with installrite. Some MS software (Java in particular) had some strange results, so as a rule I do not use any Microsoft Software with installrite.

Of course I'm not a big expert and not everyone will agree with me. I have simply decided to share what I have learned as a newbie and hope this will help any other newbies that are struggling with silent installs.

Feel free to comment....

~SIMON~

[lilweirddude]

i find packages created by installrite to be alot bigger than the normal ones

but i find it useful too