dBASE Deployment - Network install

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Network install

Rick

2005-03-31, 8:02 pm

I’d like to be sure I understand just how a standard network install would go using inno. Not sure why I can’t seem to get this clear but hope someone will straighten it out for me.

Here’s my plan:
1. I create an install exe (setup.exe) that when run from the CD will copy files to the server drive and create directories and nothing else.
2. I create another install exe (clientsetup.exe) that will be run from inside setup.exe and this program will ask the user to pick a path on the workstation to install the client portion of the app.

Clientsetup.exe will then install the BDE and DB+ runtime onto the workstation. Clientsetup.exe will be run from inside setup.exe so the server path they chose can be passed to clientsetup.exe. and both server and client paths can be written into an .ini
file on the client workstation.

My big question is whether you need to change to a directory to run all this. That is, setup.exe I know can run directly from the CD. My question has to do with the clientsetup.exe. I will need clientsetup.exe on the server drive to run it and install
other workstations. So I will be copying it to the server when I run setup.exe.

Would I need to change to the server drive from the CD before running clientsetup.exe from inside setup.exe. Or would I just run it with the server path in the run command in setup.exe like

N:\clientsetup.exe serverpaththeyentere
d

But using a constant for the server path portion.

Thanks for helping me clear my head on this if you can,
Rick

Rick

2005-04-01, 8:02 pm

Never mind. It turned out to be easy, and guess I was just making more of it than I should.

Rick

Rick Wrote:

> I’d like to be sure I understand just how a standard network install would go using inno. Not sure why I can’t seem to get this clear but hope someone will straighten it out for me.
>
> Here’s my plan:
> 1. I create an install exe (setup.exe) that when run from the CD will copy files to the server drive and create directories and nothing else.
> 2. I create another install exe (clientsetup.exe) that will be run from inside setup.exe and this program will ask the user to pick a path on the workstation to install the client portion of the app.
>
> Clientsetup.exe will then install the BDE and DB+ runtime onto the workstation. Clientsetup.exe will be run from inside setup.exe so the server path they chose can be passed to clientsetup.exe. and both server and client paths can be written into an .i
ni file on the client workstation.
>
> My big question is whether you need to change to a directory to run all this. That is, setup.exe I know can run directly from the CD. My question has to do with the clientsetup.exe. I will need clientsetup.exe on the server drive to run it and instal
l other workstations. So I will be copying it to the server when I run setup.exe.
>
> Would I need to change to the server drive from the CD before running clientsetup.exe from inside setup.exe. Or would I just run it with the server path in the run command in setup.exe like
>
> N:\clientsetup.exe serverpaththeyentere
d
>
> But using a constant for the server path portion.
>
> Thanks for helping me clear my head on this if you can,
> Rick
>

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