Hi...

For a long time I've installed (from a bootable CD) several PC's with:

Salamander Commander
AVG 7.5 (earlier 7.1)
Kerio 2.1.5
SpywareBlaster

My CD is bootable with a small menu (cdstarter from Wentnet)
I've made it with 5 buttons and I can press 1 button at a time and
install the programs 1 by 1. It's been working for some months - no
problem... but I would like it to be more automatic.

Each of the mentioned programs ask a lot of q's each time...

Is there a simple way to make a .bat file (*) or similar and let these
programs be installed quietly?

AVG installed in C:\Program Files\AVG
Kerio in C:\Program Files\Kerio
....
....and so on?

Something like: "Press the key to completely install the "Security
Package - In the mean time go make some coffee.."

It would be nice..

(*) Iv'e found out, that a bat-file is the only way (with CDSTARTER
anyway) I've tried to edit the cdstarter.ini to include more than one
installer.exe in 1 "button", but that's impossible (as I see it)...

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Thore Sorensen - DK2700 Brønshøj / DK2620 Albertslund
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Thore wrote:
Wouldn't that be sweet? From what I gather, you're talking about
"unattended installation." That is, all necessary user input is
referenced in a file of some kind during install, rendering the install
"silent."

Check out <www.appdeploy.com/>. Especially
<www.appdeploy.com/packages/> and
<http://appdeploy.com/articles/commandline.asp>. Poking around on their
forums may be a good idea...seems moderately active.

Let us know how it goes!

-Craig

Craig wrote:

Just a follow-up. You might be interested in this project
<http://unattended.sourceforge.net/> which leads to a section dealing
w/apps here <http://ubertechnique.com/unattended/Scripts> as well as a
reference to <http://www.uawiki.org/doku.php>.

hth,
-Craig