FS Install - Create Silent Install or customised installation for deployment

Problem

An technician in a large organisatio is tasked with creating a silent installation or a dep;oyment package of a Freedom Scientific BLV product JAWS/ZoomText/Fusion.

Applies to

• JAWS
• ZoomText
• Fusion
  

Resolution

1. The Freedom Scientific installer consists of a collection of smaller install modules controlled by setup INI file.  By first extracting the setup INI file and making modifications to it one can control the installation process so that it can be silently installed or packaged by a deployment technology.
   
2. Currently no MSI insttallers are available for Freedom Scientific products.  
   

Note

Although the instrallation process can ba automated/packaged, the software activation process is an exception..  The activation process cannot be pre-scripted as it requires a unique system finger print to be made as paret of the software activation process.

1. Ensure you have the installer package contained within a folder that is conveniently located.
2. 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.

3. When run as above the command will extract a settings INI file to the same location as the folder.
4. Open the INI file to make ammendments to customise install options and save the file.
5. Then run the installer without any argument and this should then refer to the amended INI file during installation.
   

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