Silent installs are useful for distribution technologies such as Microsoft SMS, Marimba, or Radia. It allows an adminstrator to deploy software to desktops from a central server, without user interaction.
On a clean system, or a system where CuteFTP Pro has been uninstalled, extract the attached files into a temporary directory, such as c:\temp.
Create a new response file using the following command: c:temp\setup.exe /r /f1 “c:\temp\response.iss” (for more details on response files, click here).
Edit the created response file or the sample one attached to this document (pro3Download.iss). More details on editing response files are available here.
On the target machine (or after you uninstall the above, on the same machine) you can play back that installation silently using those same expanded setup files. For example: c:setup.exe /s /f1"c:\response.iss"
Check the ResultCode in the setup.log which is created on the target machine to verify that the install was completed successfully:
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Result Code |
Definition |
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0 |
Success |
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-1 |
General error |
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-2 |
Invalid mode |
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-3 |
Required data not found in the Setup.iss file |
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-4 |
Not enough memory available |
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-5 |
File does not exist |
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-6 |
Cannot write to the response file |
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-7 |
Unable to write to the log file |
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-8 |
Invalid path to the InstallShield Silent response file |
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-9 |
Not a valid list type (string or number) |
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-10 |
Data type is invalid |
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-11 |
Unknown error during setup |
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-12 |
Dialogs are out of order |
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-51 |
Cannot create the specified folder |
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-52 |
Cannot access the specified file or folder |
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-53 |
Invalid option selected |