Progress
Installation and Configuration Guide
Version 9
for Windows


Creating a User-Defined Response File

Before you can run the NetSetup utility in silent installation mode, you must create the user-response file. This file records the values that the NetSetup utility needs to successfully complete the silent installation process.

To create this file, you must perform an initial interactive installation, providing the required values.

To create the user-defined response file, follow these steps:

  1. Enter the following command on the command line:
  2. setup.exe -r 
    

setup.exe

The command to run the NetSetup program interactively.

-r parameter

The Installshield mechanism to create the response file and to identify it as setup.iss. The setup.iss file is a text file that is modifiable. The -r parameter is the recommended method to ensure that you create a complete response file.

  1. Press ENTER. NetSetup runs interactively.
  2. As you enter values through the keyboard, NetSetup simultaneously creates the response file, setup.iss, to record particular values that you enter. Values specific to your installation are read and stored in the response file.

Figure 3–1 shows the contents of a sample response file.

Figure 3–1: Sample Response File

The values entered for the ProgramFolder and WorkingDir during the interactive installation are recorded in the response file. The shortcut information identified in the Program Folder and the user’s work files identified in the WorkingDir are read during a silent installation.


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