gpallirk
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Installers with in MSI

Hi
I am new this Advanced Installer and I am trying to evaluate the product.
I have the following critical requirements
1. I have couple of installers that need to be installed as a single installer
In this case - how can I make the entire MSI as a silent installer?
2. As a general question - how do I find the registry entried the above installers are making to make it part of the single MSI
if the installer are to be installed first and make the required registry entries?
Any help in this regard is highy appreciated.
Thanks
Ramki
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Hello,

1) Add them as Prerequisites, with silent switches (they must have these) and check the "Silent install of prerequsites" box.

2) I am not sure I understand this question. You need to know what the installers must contain (files and registry entries) in order to create a package.

Hope that helps,
Cata
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gpallirk
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Thanks for the quick reply..
regarding the second question..
Just for say, I have my main MSI as main.msi which I am trying to make.
As part of this, I have two installers installer2.exe, installer3.zip which need to be extracted and installed. These two installers are third party installers. No clue about what changes they make while installing.
If I want to make main.msi as
1. Install installer2.exe, make the list of directories, path variables, and registry entries
2. Unzip installer2.zip and install it. make the list of directories, path variables, and registry entries

So, my question is.. how do I track the changes happening in my computer whne I am installing my third party installers to make them as part of main.msi?
Thanks
Ramki
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I don't really know how... maybe using some of the SysInternals tools...
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