Silent Install

HOWTO make a Complete Silent Install with EasyCopy version 8.2 and up

You can make a silent install (unattended installation) of EasyCopy by giving a few command line parameters to the installation executable.
To do this you would first record how to install EasyCopy by running:

ec820setup.exe -a -r -f1c:\setup.iss

which will record the installation in c:\setup.iss.

Then use this setup.iss to do a silent install:

ec820setup.exe -s -a -s -f1c:\setup.iss

The first -s parameter makes it completely silent. If you leave it off you will see a status bar as the files are extracted from the archive. All parameters following -a are parameters for the InstallShield setup.exe inside the package.

Please note that the -f1 option ends with the number one, and you cannot put a space between the option and the following filename.

EasyCopy 8.2 builds before January 10, 2008 is as above mentioned and is not completely silent, because the easycopy.exe will be launched at the end of the installation.

With the next build of EasyCopy 8.2 you will be able to make a complete silent installation.
A default setup.iss has from this version been added to the install package, so you can make a silent default installation by simply running:

ec820setup.exe -s -a -s

without having to record it first.