[wpkg-users] MSI + MST: MST somewhat ignored when silent install

Stefan Pendl stefan.pendl.71 at gmail.com
Mon May 14 22:56:45 CEST 2012


Am 14.05.2012 22:42, schrieb Mathieu Simon:
>
> What confuses me is that when doing a interactive installation with the
> MST, the options I have modified
> via the MST are correctly pre-chosen (msiexec /i<msi>
> TRANSFORMS=mytransform.mst) in the installer like
> Start Menu location, and complete Installation option - but when I do a
> reduced (msiexec /qr) or
> silent (/qn) silent install, it only does a "typical" install which
> requires CDs to be inserted for the
> user (not what I'd like).
>

Have you tried the msiexec switch /passive instead of the old /q... 
switches?

Does the network install still include a setup.exe file?
What does "setup.exe /?" tell you?

Can you contact the software vendor for additional installation 
instructions?

You know, InstallShield is bad :-P


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