Hi
Am trying to do a silent install of epson scanner drivers.
I am using the setup.exe -R switch,to create the .iss file, but the file is not listed in my Windows folder.

I am not restarting after installation, so can somebody tell me where i am going wrong please.

Thanks

hi,

try tu search on all disk *.iss

use the /r sintax

/r -r shouldn't make much of a difference, they usually accept both
but are u sure that its the setups done with Installshield?

You could try extracting the setup executable, it may be a self extracting exe that drops the real setup file into a temp folder and runs it from there.If it does extract try the -R switch on the extracted exe.

Another way I sometimes use is to install the drivers and then use My Drivers, which is a driver backup program, http://www.zhangduo.com/, this should copy the driver files and any inf files to a dir which, you can then drop in your unattended cd and call from the "OemPnPDriversPath=" key in winnt.sif

Hi
Thanks for the replies

XtremeMaC
yes InstallShield is the installer,and confirmation of this is in Program files\InstallShield Installation Information folder.

Hi Benners
Thanks for the reply.
Missed your post, but have used the info.I was unable to extract the setup executable, but i now have a My Drivers folder (Epson) to include in the CD.

I will of course try out the progam with other drivers, and post back.
It looks a good little program
Thanks for the link

Not if this makes a difference, but I've run into a situation where -R did not cause InstallShield to record the install.

no problem, it is a good program, there is one thing that you may have to do, I have noticed that sometimes you may need to edit the inf file to change the path to the files, when I have tested the install and the drivers are being loaded a dialog box has popped up asking for "such a disc with such a file" and this is because of the inf file pointing to the wrong dir.

If you check under [SourceDisksFiles] it should have the path to the file in the inf file for my Canon scanner it has this,

[SourceDisksFiles]
D125U.INF=0
README.TXT=1,D125USG
UCS32P.DLL=1,D125USG
MSVCRT.DLL=1,D125USG
SG63CPL.DLL=1,D125USG
D125UUD.DLL=1,D125USG
CANOIT32.EXE=1,D125USG
CISDS.DS=1,D125USG

and when I tested the install it was looking for the D125USG directory so stopped and asked for the file, I had to remove the D125USG and have this,

[SourceDisksFiles]
D125U.INF=0
README.TXT=1,
UCS32P.DLL=1,
MSVCRT.DLL=1,
SG63CPL.DLL=1,
D125UUD.DLL=1,
CANOIT32.EXE=1,
CISDS.DS=1,

I dont know if the numbers still need to be there as I am not that clued up on inf files but it worked for me, hope you get yours working, there should be an addicts group like Unattendeds Anonymous as I am always looking to tweak or refine the **** things once they are done. :/

Hi benners
It worked for the Scanner drivers, and also the Intel Chipset drivers,it did not work for the Alcatel USB Modem, get the error message cannot find the installer,and also the Nvidia updated drivers,no error message. so i will have another go at those, using your added info.

Thanks again

If you're referring to the Detonator drivers for nVidia, extract the .exe using WinRAR, etc. You can then make a reference to them in the winnt.sif file.

DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
OemPnPDriversPath=Drivers\video

Drivers is the folder under $OEM$\$1.