Creating a silent install

** The advanced topic for system administrators **

Only applicable to installation files until DesignBuilder v5.0.3.007. Not supported by recent setup files (*.MSI).

It is possible to create a silent install for DesignBuilder which does not require any user interaction. This can be useful for rolling out a distribution as part of a script across a number of machines.

1. Download and save the setup file (e.g. SetupDB470027.exe) to a folder on your computer.

2. Open a command prompt window and use the cd command to move to the folder into which you have downloaded the setup file.

3. Enter the following commands:

     <setup file> -extract_all:.

    e.g. type:

        SetupDB470027.exe -extract_all:.

    This will extract the files in the exe file into a subfolder called Disk1. Now move down to the new Disk1 folder by typing:

cd Disk1

4. Save SETUP.ISS (see attachment at bottom of this article) and save it into the new Disk1 directory.

 5. Modify the parameters within SETUP.ISS using a text editor.  Typically it would be these 4 parameters:

For 32bit computers:

szName=User Name
szCompany=Company Name
szDir=C:\Program Files\DesignBuilder
     Version=Version number (e.g. 4.7.0.027)

For 64bit computers:

szName=User Name
szCompany=Company Name
szDir=C:\Program Files (x86)\DesignBuilder
     Version=Version number (e.g. 4.7.0.027)

6. Still in the Disk1 folder type:

setup -s

     to install DesignBuilder silently

7. Wait until the installation has been completed. This can take several minutes.

Note: The silent install does not remove any existing DesignBuilder installations. If a previous version of DesignBuilder is installed then it must be uninstalled from Control Panel -> Add or remove programs before running this silent install with the new version.