Installing a driver...

[stjohn]

Hi,
I have a hardware driver that needs to be installed as part of my install process. The hardware driver is made available to me from the vendor as an msi file that can be run via the command shell and has a 'quiet' switch option I would like to use. What would be the best way to install this driver and only continue the rest of the installation after this process had successfully completed (the next step uses the hardware installed)?

many thanks,
St.john

[cyb]

Hi John,

If your driver is a MSI file, you can add it as a prerequisite, in the "Prerequisites" tab of the "Prerequisites" page.
There you can also set your MSI driver to be installed silent.
You can get help from our Prerequisites article or this tutorial .

Best regards,
cyb

[stjohn]

Hi Cosmin,
many thanks for the info. I am now installing my driver as a prerequisite. I have a driver specific msi command line option I would like to add to my prerequisite which allows a silent Installation of the drivers in question. The readme attached to the drivers gives me the following msi command line instructions :

silent installation option supported by the installer 'iKeyDrvr.msi /quiet' or 'msiexec /I iKeyDrvr.msi /qn'

Unfortunately neither work. The windows msiexec help dialog pops up when I run the installer and try to install the prerequisite. Any ideas why this might be? I think I have specified the edit prerequisite properties correctly. I have tried both options in the command line property box but when I save, build and run my installer I can't get past the windows installer pop up box...

many thanks for your help,
St.john

[cyb]

Hi John,

For a silent installation of your driver you can use the "/qb" parameter in the command line field of the "Edit Prerequisite" dialog.
If the problem persists even after using this parameter, please send us your AIP to support at advancedinstaller dot com

Best regards,
cyb

[stjohn]

Hi Cosmin,
hmm... If I put:

/qb

into the comand line edit box the prerequisite driver installs correctly but not silently. I can see all the driver dialog boxes whilst it installs. Ideally I do not want to see them. The driver .msi offers this functionality - should I be able to use it?

many thanks,
St.john

[cyb]

Hi John,

Can you please send us the AIP to support at advancedinstaller dot com so that we can look for the problem?

Best regards,
cyb

[stjohn]

Hi Cosmin,
got it, working now...

If I just put the necessary options into the command line edit box it works...

many thanks,
St.john