Wednesday, 28 October 2009

Unattended/Silent installation for N-trig Digitizer Driver on Dell XT2 (XPsp3) (R236953)

Problem

Trying to get the driver to install silently for our SMS2003 ZTI image deployment of XPsp3 on the Dell XT2.

Failed attempts

The extracted exe NtrigBundle_1.166.026_XP.exe would not work with any silent switches (/S /Silent /QN). The Ntrig and dell website offered no silent installation advice.
Tried to extract the setup files as follows : run the exe manually, copying the extracted source files from %temp% to another location, from here run setup.exe manually with the -R switch to create your own custom setup.iss file, click through the installation prompts manually, when you are done the setup.iss file (in %windir%) can be used in your future installations using setup.exe /f1 setup.iss, This did not work, it was not silent.

Solution

NtrigBundle_1.166.026_XP.exe -all -s

The vista version of this driver uses a -all switch (I found this on the lenovo website :-)), so I tried it with the original NtrigBundle_1.166.026_XP.exe and the installation went through unattended (without me needing to click next>next>finish etc) but was still not silent, so I then added -s and it went through unattended and silent.

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