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John Paul Mueller

"Administering Windows Server 2008 Server Core"

Often,
the installation program is in a directory named Setup.
3.
Type
Setup /?
and press Enter to determine whether the vendor provides localized help.
If none of these options work, contact the vendor or search online for the command line
instruction when you can??™t find help locally.
Assuming that the application uses
Setup.EXE
isn??™t always going to work??”some vendors use
another setup application name or might not provide the required setup interface as part of
Setup.EXE
. The most common alternative is
Install.EXE
, but the number of application variants
is limitless. Fortunately, you can open the
AutoRun.INF
file and examine it by typing
Notepad
AutoRun.INF
and pressing Enter. (As with the setup program, make sure you select the proper
drive for accessing the AutoRun.INF file.) What you??™ll see is an INI file that contains all of the commands
the application commonly used to start the setup. You can simply use these commands as
a starting point for your own setup. Of course, you??™ll want to use command line switches to configure
the application, rather than allow it to run in GUI mode (since that option has already failed).


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