How to install EPrime Standard (or Professional) Silently under XP

[ccbaye]

wow thank you Liza, very useful!

Cheers,
Christophe.

On May 19, 10:40 am, LizaM <liza.mccar... at uwe.ac.uk> wrote:
> According to PST you can only do a silent install with EPrime
> Professional. (A silent install is one where the installer just gets
> on with installing and asks no questions!)
>
> As I wanted to install EPrime standard via our SMS server (used to
> deliver the same build to all PCs with the same functionality - a
> great time saver!) I decided to play around and see if it would work -
> the blanket install is so that we can use our copies of EPrime Run
> Time in our 23 PC student lab, the dongled installs for academics and
> technical staff are still done manually and I haven't tested whether
> the silent install installs the hasp drivers correctly - It doesn't
> install the SRbox etc but these can be done manually.  Please note
> that this installs a full copy of EPrime - to use the run time part
> (which you have 25 licences for with each full dongled copy of
> EPrime)  just ignore the EStudio part and just use RunTime.  If you
> don't have a centrally managed installation system then the same
> principle could be used with a bit of Dos based scripting to deliver
> the install files to multiple machines and then to do a local install
> from a remote location thus saving having to log on and off multiple
> machines to do the installs and select the various options!
>
> Firstly use Winzip or Winrar or similar to unzip the installation .exe
> file to a folder (The version I used was 2.0.8.22 Standard).
>
> In the folder you will then have several files, including E-Prime
> 2.0.msi and Data1.cab - from testing it would seems these are the only
> file needed for the silent install.  PortdriverInstaller.exe and
> SRBoxDriverinstaller.exe install the port and SR Box drivers and can
> be installed afterwards if needed.
>
> Select Start and choose run in the run box type:
>
> msiexec /i "D:\eprime 2.0.msi" /qb
>
> (where location of the .msi and the .cab file is D:\)
>
> and EPrime will install silently without any prompts and a few moments
> later will appear on the start menu!.
>
> Worth playing around with if you just want an install for run time
> etc.  Hope this proves useful.
>
> Cheers
>
> Liza
>
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