Software Deployment

I’m attempting an unattended installation of some software (CODA Financials Client). But my problem is that the installation always restarts.

If I install the application as usual, using the setup.exe, at the end of the installation I receive a message giving me the options of “Yes – I want to restart my computer now” or “No – I will restart my computer later”.

When I use setup.exe -r command to create the .exe file, at the end of the installation I receive a message advising “Your installation requires a restart before it is complete” At this point there isn’t a Yes or No option, just an OK button which, when clicked, causes the computer to restart.

So, the usual installation process seems to alter slightly when I’m using the setup.exe –r command.

Does anybody have any suggestions on how I can get around this. I’ve tried a number of Sdfinish / SdFinishReboot  entries in the setup.iss  file but I’m not quite sure if I’ve done these correctly.

There is an .msi file but I can’t it as it tells me that it must run via the setup.exe file., so I’ve tried creating an .mst file with SSETUPDRIVEN = 1 but I then receive error message of ‘could not retrieve product version from setup.ini.

Here is the setup.iss file

[{DB102B80-E246-4D16-92A8-3DB1146B60B0}-DlgOrder]

Dlg0={DB102B80-E246-4D16-92A8-3DB1146B60B0}-SdLicense-0

Count=6

Dlg1={DB102B80-E246-4D16-92A8-3DB1146B60B0}-SdCustomerInfo-0

Dlg2={DB102B80-E246-4D16-92A8-3DB1146B60B0}-SdAskDestPath-0

Dlg3={DB102B80-E246-4D16-92A8-3DB1146B60B0}-SdComponentDialog2-0

Dlg4={DB102B80-E246-4D16-92A8-3DB1146B60B0}-SdStartCopy-0

Dlg5={DB102B80-E246-4D16-92A8-3DB1146B60B0}-MessageBox-0

[{DB102B80-E246-4D16-92A8-3DB1146B60B0}-SdLicense-0]

Result=1

[{DB102B80-E246-4D16-92A8-3DB1146B60B0}-SdCustomerInfo-0]

szName=End User

szCompany=Company

nvUser=1

Result=1

[{DB102B80-E246-4D16-92A8-3DB1146B60B0}-SdAskDestPath-0]

szDir=C:\Program Files\CODA\Financials Client\

Result=1

[{DB102B80-E246-4D16-92A8-3DB1146B60B0}-SdComponentDialog2-0]

Component-type=string

Component-count=1

Component-0=AdditionalFeatures\Kerberos

Result=1

[{DB102B80-E246-4D16-92A8-3DB1146B60B0}-SdStartCopy-0]

Result=1

[{DB102B80-E246-4D16-92A8-3DB1146B60B0}-MessageBox-0]

Result=1

Help please! Many thanks