[wpkg-users] no disk in the drive

[Mark Nienberg]

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:

> Probably yet another great installer which assumes you're still running 
> MS-DOS or Windows 95, as the one and only user: Administrator.
> 
> Try running WPKG Client as an Administrator, or a domain Administrator.
> By default, WPKG Client runs as a SYSTEM user.

I already run wpkg as the local Administrator.

> Also, why don't you try to use install the MSI using msiexec, and not 
> this setup.exe program?

That is a good idea.  The setup program calls a few other msi files to install 
prerequisites, but I think I could figure it out and do it directly.  I was worried 
that it might be doing something else important, but it is worth a try.


> Yet another way (which I sometimes use for some type of programs with 
> dumb installers) is to:
> 
> - install the program manually
> - copy the files to the server (i.e., C:\Program Files\something\), 
> sometimes registry entries
> - deploy it to workstations using robocopy or a similar tool

I hope it doesn't come to that!

Thanks for your help.
Mark



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