FS Install - Create Silent Install or customised installation
Problem
An organisation supporting a large number of users wish to create an install package for a Freedom Scientific software product JAWS/ZoomText/Fusion.
Affected products
- JAWS
- ZoomText
- Fusion
Resolution
- The Freedom Scientific installer consists of smaller modules and INI files so that the installer can be modified to install or omit specific features for installation. Below steps will allow one to see the settings file to begin the customization process.
- MSI insttallers are not available at this time for Freedom Scientific products.
Note
Although the instrallation process can ba automated/packaged, the software activation process to authorisation a workstation cannot be scripted or automated becuase it relies on a unique machine identifier that cannot be pre-scripted.
- Ensure you have the installer package contained within a folder that is conveniently located.
- Then run the installer with the /ExtractAdditionalSettings command line argument. The command line should look similar to below:
PackageName.exe /ExtractAdditionalSettings [INI filename] [Setup type]
Where:
PackageName.exe = product installer with full path to installer
[path to INI file] = INI filename
[Setup type] = the following:
Default
DisableExternalServices
/Language
Tip
To obtain the path for the installer highlight the file and press control+shift+f10 and choose Copy as path in the context menu. When specifying the path for the /ExtractAdditionalSettings switch use the same path as the installer for convenience running the installer again.
- When run as above the command will extract a settings INI file to the same location as the folder.
- Open the INI file to make ammendments to customise install options and save the file.
- Then run the installer without any argument and this should then refer to the amended INI file during installation.
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