Progress
Installation and Configuration Guide
Version 9
for Windows


Running the InstallShield Silent Utility

Follow these steps to run the InstallShield Silent utility:

  1. Create a Response file. You can produce this file either automatically (recommended method) by using the InstallShield Response (-r) command-line parameter or manually by editing a setup.iss file. For more information on automatically creating a response file, see the "Creating the Response File Automatically" section. For more information on manually creating a response file, see the "Creating the Response File Manually" section.
  2. Play back the Silent Installation using the Silent (-s) command-line parameter. The InstallShield runs on its own without your intervention:
  3. drive:\setup.exe -s -f1C:\<path-to-file>\setup.iss 
    				[-f2C:\<path-to-file>\setup.log] 
    

    In the above sample, path-to-file indicates the location of the setup file. The default location of the setup.iss file is the directory where you placed the Progress setup.exe. If you have moved this file to a different directory, you must specify the path to that directory here.

    The setup.log file is by default created in the same directory as the setup.iss file. You can use the optional -s -f2 command-line parameter to specify a different location for the setup.log file.

NOTE: You must launch the InstallShield Silent installation utility by using the setup.exe -s -f1 command-line parameters.

Creating the Response File Automatically

InstallShield creates a response file for you by recording all your installation choices in the setup.iss file and places the file in the Windows directory. Use this syntax to initiate an InstallShield response file:

drive:\setup.exe -r -f1C:\<windows directory>\setup.iss 

Creating the Response File Manually

You can create and edit a response file (setup.iss), which is similar to a .ini file. Note that this file requires you to add the necessary sections in a predefined order.

Follow these steps to create a response file manually:

  1. Create a new text file named setup.iss using any text editor.
  2. Enter InstallShield response file (setup.iss) required sections in the following order, noting that Section names are contained in square brackets, for example, [InstallShield Silent]:
    1. Silent Header Section [InstallShield Silent]
    2. Dialog Sequence Section [DlgOrder]
    3. Application Header Section [Application]
    4. Dialog Data Sections, for example [Welcome Dialog-0]
  3. Edit the necessary data within each section name. Data entries consist of name=value pairs, such as Dlg0=Welcome-0.
  4. Save and close the setup.iss file and place the file in the Windows directory.

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