aworldofblue
18th February 2003 20:17 UTC

ExecWait with External InstallShield Program
Hey People,

I've got the following problem,
during my Installation I want to perform a silent Installation of Lotus Notes/Domino.
To do so, i'm calling "setup -s -f1 setup.iss",
and it's no problem, Notes is installing successfully.

BUT:
I wanted to use ExecWait, to wait for the end of the Notes-Setup Process but after about 10 seconds the process name "setup.exe" changes to some "_.somehing.TMP" and so ExecWait "thinks" that the Program has already finished.

Is there any solution, to really wait until the install-shield installation is over?

i'd be very pleased if somebody could help me!

regards,

reini

kichik
18th February 2003 20:36 UTC

Hello, and welcome to the forums :D

I have searched Google for a couple of minutes and found this useful page: http://unattended.sourceforge.net/installers.html.

Unfortunately, the installer will fork a separate process and exit, meaning it will return immediately even if you run it under start /wait. This makes it useless for scripting purposes. Luckily, there is another switch, /sms, which will cause the installer to pause until the installation completes.

aworldofblue
18th February 2003 20:44 UTC

thx a lot for the quick help!

r

JoeMcC00L
18th April 2006 19:41 UTC

The link is now broken. Here is the new link:

http://unattended.sourceforge.net/installers.php

Hope this helps someone!

-Joe