Configuring Repackager To Ensure Optimal Installation Capture - Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual

Chapter 7: Repackaging Legacy Installations Using the Repackaging Wizard

Configuring Repackager to Ensure Optimal Installation Capture

When you are repackaging an InstallShield Editor or DevStudio 9.x InstallScript installation and want to use the
InstallShield Professional Logging Method, you can select either Installation Monitoring or Snapshot on the
Method Selection Panel. However, if you select the Snapshot method, you must select Single Step on the
Snapshot Method Panel (which would open next).
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setup as an InstallShield Editor or DevStudio 9.x InstallScript installation and the InstallShield Professional Setup
Panel will not open.
After you select the Installation Monitoring or Snapshot method, and then specify an InstallShield Editor or
DevStudio 9.x InstallScript installation on the Repackaging Wizard's Collect Product Information Panel,
Repackager will automatically detect the InstallScript installation and will display the InstallShield Professional
Setup Panel. On this panel, you can choose to use the InstallShield Professional Logging Method instead of
the repackaging method you chose on the Method Selection Panel.
For instructions on how to use the InstallShield Professional Logging Method when repackaging InstallShield
Editor or DevStudio 9.x InstallScript installations, see
Method and
Configuring Repackager to Ensure Optimal
Installation Capture
Both repackaging methods, Installation Monitoring and Snapshot, involve installing an application and
recording the system changes made by that installation. To ensure that you capture all changes made by the
installation, you should, ideally, install the application onto a "clean machine" (a computer with only the operating
system installed), as described in
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If you select the Snapshot / Multiple Steps repackaging method, Repackager will not recognize the
InstallShield Professional Setup
About Repackaging on Clean
Repackaging Using the InstallShield Professional Logging
Panel.
Systems.
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