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Originally Posted by frieza
configurations, windows on the other hand uses stand alone executables as the method of installation and none of them are likely to have any command line options which means you are stuck with a point and click interface that can't be easily scripted if at all
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Actually, in my experience most installers DO have a silent install option.
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Originally Posted by japhyr
Currently I write all those installers to a cd, also copying to the cd a simple batch script to successively launch each installer, but kids have to sit and click through all the install prompts.
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So you're already
very close. You just need to find out what the switches are to make the installers silent! If unsure, open up a command prompt interactively and run the installer with the /? switch, odds are that will bring up a help message. If not, try /s, /silent, or /q, or Google. Any that
don't have a silent option, you're going to have to click through. But that should be a minority.
Or there's WPKG. Or disk imaging. Or creating a custom install media - you can make one disk that will install Windows and your software. But that's kind of a complicated process. But to be honest, you just need to make the one change to your
existing approach to improve things a lot.
ROFL
