[RESOLVED] Installation Help

[Krenshau]

I am trying to install a server on a host maching. It is a VistaDB Server, but I am not expecting brand specific information.

I was just wondering if someone could help me interpret what the below text means. I understand point one and three. I am having a problem with point two. I am using INNO setup and am not sure how to accomplish line two using INNO.

Installing and running the Windows Server
To install the VistaDB Server on the deployment machine, do the following:
 
 
 
1. C:\Program Files\VistaDB 2.1\Server\2User\VistaDBServerService.exe  "/install /silent"
 
2. C:\Windows\System32\net.exe  C:\Program Files\VistaDB 2.1\Server\2User start "VistaDB Server"
 
3. C:\Program Files\VistaDB 2.1\Server\2User\ServerServiceManager.exe

Thank you for your help.

[Al42]

The 3 are evidently command lines that the installation package has to run. I've never used Inno, so I can't tell you how to write the script, but I can tell you that #2 says that C:\Windows\System32\net.exe is run with the argument 'C:\Program Files\VistaDB 2.1\Server\2User start "VistaDB Server"' (without the single tics, of course). (That's 3 arguments, actually, but net.exe doesn't seem to like the arguments.)

[randem]

In Inno use the [Run] Section to install any third party installations. Something like this:

[Run]
Filename: {tmp}\VistaDBServerService.exe; Parameters:/install /silent; Flags: skipifdoesntexist; WorkingDir: {tmp}
Filename: C:\Windows\System32\net.exe; Parameters:start VistaDB Server; Flags: skipifdoesntexist
Filename: {tmp}\ServerServiceManager.exe; Flags: skipifdoesntexist; WorkingDir: {tmp}

Of course you will need to include these files in your [Files] Section to be included in the original installation. Or you can include them seperately (files not in the [Files] section) and have Inno just run them from the original location or copy them to another location then run them.

[Krenshau]

Thank you very much randem, that solved that problem. I didn't know how to set those parameters.