Packaging Adminstudio itself....

[Inabus]

Anyone able to help me out.

I am attempting to package up the repackager component of adminstudio and am having difficulty in trying to use the existing package.

I have admin installed the complete adminstudio to a network drive and am now trying to figure out how to install just the repackager. Is there a switch I can use on the adminstudio.msi or am I going to have to, heavens forbid, snapshot :eek:

Ta in advance,
Paul

[TsungH]

I am not even sure if it will work when installing with the administrative image of AdminStudio. Since you didn't mention the version of AdminStudio used, so what I am going to say may not be applicable. Some vesions of AdminStudio use nested installation to install Developer/DevStudio (my memory is kinda fuzzy, and I didn't verify AdminStudio 6), and administrative installation cannot contain a nested installation, as indicated in Nested Installation Actions.

If you just want to run Repackager on a machine that doesn't have AdminStudio installed, you should look into Launching Repackager Remotely in AdminStudio Help.

[Christopher_Pai]

AdminStudio already comes with a remote Repackager. This basically takes the directory you installed AdminStudio to and uses it as a type of Admin Share point. It works fine, and if you just need to make it silent but you cant make it silent, then just repackage that setup.

C:\Program Files\InstallShield\AdminStudio\6.0\Repackager\Remote Repackager\setup.exe

Edit:

That setup.exe is just a bootstrap MSI that contains Remote Repackager.msi. You can use MSI properties and commandline args to automate this. You shouldn't need to repackage anything.

[jmcfadyen]

you can actually run the isilc.exe file from the client machine with no installation required.

[Inabus]

Thanks for that reply ill try it, would be highly useful if I could run it off the network as the machine that it WOULD be installed on is the packaging machine and will be contasntly rebuilt and having to re-install Adminstuido on the machine every time it is rebuilt could get pretty boring pretty quick 🙂

Paul