Installing Legacy Setup OR Creating Answer / Response Files

Details about installing legacy setup applications:

Creating InstallShield Response Files or Answer Files

ISS file – Install Shield Silence (Response)File

Installshield Setup.exe allows creating a Response file.

use your custom installation to install these resources without user interaction.

The high-level process for creating custom installation for InstallShield images is as follows:

●      To record a silent InstallShield installation, run the setup -r command.

●      To play back a silent InstallShield installation, run the setup -s command.

Recording the Response File

To start recording the response file, perform the following steps:

1. Change to the directory containing the setup script.
2. Run the following command:

3.  setup -r -f1my_response_file.iss

where my_response_file is any name you want to use.

For example, to create a response file for endpoint installation, you can call it endpoint.iss and store it in the c:\tivoli\endpoint\ directory. In this case, enter:

setup -r -f1c:\tivoli\endpoint\endpoint.iss

4. Complete the setup windows, actually completing a normal installation. The response file records all the setting specified.

Note:

There is also an -f2 option that is used to designate the location of the InstallShield log file. The InstallShield log file is created during the installation process. If no location is specified, the InstallShield log file is written to the same location as the response file.

Playing Back a Response File

After you have created your response file, you can run the installation.

All messages are written to the log file. Review this log file to determine the results of the installation.

PathOfExe -s -f1response_file_path\endpoint.iss –f2PathOfLogFile

-r : record configuration settings in iss file

-s: silently install

-f1: The /f1filename switch allows you to specify a fully-qualified alternate name for the setup.iss file.

If parameter not applied, it saves as a default name, setup.iss

-f2: specifies the path of log file. If not declared, it by default saves as setup.log

Unfortunately, the installer will fork a separate process and exit, meaning it will return immediately

-SMS

Prevents a network connection and Setup.exe from closing before the setup is complete. Please note that SMS must be uppercase; this is a case-sensitive switch.

Note: no space after –f1 or after –f2

If setup.iss is in the same folder as setup.exe you can just skip the /f1 switch entirely!

/f1 switch actually IS necessary if you named the iss file anything other than setup.iss

Many packages have "custom dialogs" which are not supported by setup.iss, which means the dialogs will always appear no matter what you do.

When using long path and filename expressions with switches, enclose the expressions in double quotation marks. The enclosing double quotes tell the operating system that spaces within the quotation marks are not to be treated as command line delimiters.