Wow, I thought I was the only one who needs to install three separate versions of Pro/ENGINEER on systems, and I'm surprised that there are others doing it with WPKG, let alone down the road in Waltham (I'm in Concord). PTC's installation technology is awful from a sysadmin perspective. Note that you'll probably need to tweak your installation trail file in odd ways to deal with locations of different installation "disks" (who installs from CDs any more?) and/or different installation drive letters on your systems. I have WPKG execute a batch file to install Pro/E, and this gives me more flexibility. To address your specific problem with the Pro/E installers handing control back to early, I simply have my batch file wait a safe amount of time (30 minutes) after the installer is started. I know that the installation should take less than that amount of time, so I'm safe. My batch file for Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0 is: set WFVER=2 set RELCODE=M280 set FREESPACE=4GB ::First, see if there is enough free space to copy the data locally and then install the application. "%WPKGROOT%\tools\freedisk.exe" /D %SystemDrive% %FREESPACE% > NUL if errorlevel 1 goto :END ::Proceed with the installation if there is enough space if %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%==x86 set ARCH=32 if %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%==AMD64 set ARCH=64 if %SYSTEMDRIVE%==C: set DR=c if %SYSTEMDRIVE%==D: set DR=d ::The below parameters make robocopy produce no console output. WPKG does not deal with robocopy's console output well. set ROBOCOPYFLAGS=/NP /NS /NC /NFL /NDL /NJH /NJS /Z ::Delete the preferences file to avoid extra prompts that message up the silent installer. if exist "%PROGRAMFILES%\PTC\proeWildfire %WFVER%.0\bin\proe1.psf" del "%PROGRAMFILES%\PTC\proeWildfire %WFVER%.0\bin\proe1.psf" ::Copy over data for installation "%WPKGROOT%\tools\robocopy.exe" /MIR %ROBOCOPYFLAGS% ""%SOFTWARE%\PTC\ProENGINEER\Wildfire%WFVER%\win%ARCH%\%RELCODE%" "%WINDIR%\temp\%RELCODE%" copy /Y "%SOFTWARE%\PTC\ProENGINEER\WF%WFVER%\installtrail%RELCODE%%DR%.txt" "%WINDIR%\TEMP\%RELCODE%\." ::Install the application %WINDIR%\temp\%RELCODE%\setup.exe -nographics -uitrail %WINDIR%\TEMP\%RELCODE%\installtrail%RELCODE%%DR%.txt ::Wait 30 minutes for the installation to complete. "%WPKGROOT%\tools\sleep.exe" 1800 rd /S /Q "%WINDIR%\temp\%RELCODE%" :END Note that this relies on sleep.exe and freedisk.exe, which are part of the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools. These are located in %WPKGROOT%\tools. This batch file includes some other interesting features: 1. The variables in the first three lines set parameters that I can change in order to use this script with other versions of Pro/E. Now that I think about it, I could specify that stuff in the command line instead, and then I would not need separate installation batch files for each Pro/E version. 2. This installs a 32-bit version of Pro/E if the OS is 32-bit, and a 64-bit version if the OS is 32-bit. 3. It will install on the C or D drive, whichever is the boot volume. 4. I copy all the installation files to the local system and then run the installer locally. 5. A Pro/E upgrade's screens are different from a fresh installation's screens, so the same trail file does not work for both. To deal with this, I make sure that Pro/E is always doing a fresh installation by deleting an active proe1.psf file. My actual WPKG installation command is a one-liner where I ignore the exit code: <install cmd='%SOFTWARE%\PTC\ProENGINEER\WF2\install-silent.bat'> <exit code="any" /> </install> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/attachments/20081202/5ec02896/attachment.html> |