Silently Installing Combustion - Autodesk COMBUSTION-4 - Acad Full-seat Windows Version Network Manual

To run the AdLM manually:
Insert the combustion 4 program installation
1.
CD into the CD-ROM drive.
If AutoPlay is enabled on your system, the
combustionSetup.exe begins automatically.
Hold down the Shift key or right-click to prevent
2.
AutoPlay from starting the installation of
combustion. If AutoPlay is not enabled, proceed
to the next step.
3. On the combustion 4 program installation CD,
go to the Network Licensing folder and run the
setup.exe to install the AdLM.
You can run the setup.exe as necessary to create
varied client deployment images to meet user
requirements and company needs.
Creating a Deployment Image
Creating a deployment image enables you to deploy
combustion on a network. Deployment images must
be located on a network share that is accessible by all
client workstations that require combustion.
1. Copy the contents of the combustion 4 program
installation CD to a shared folder.
Create a combustion Settings.ini file and copy it
2.
to a shared folder. See the information after the
next table.
Inform the users that the network deployment is
3.
complete and provide them with instructions.
Do one of the following:
4.
• Ask each user to run the combustionSetup.exe file
from the shared folder.
• Create a script to install combustion automatically
on all machines. See the next section.

Silently Installing combustion

You can choose to silently deploy combustion on a
network using the command-line interface.
Silently Installing combustion
The following command silently installs
combustion 4 on a network:
%Comspec% /c combustionSetup.exe -s
is an environment variable provided by
%Comspec%
Windows. It points to the command interpreter,
cmd.exe.
is a switch passed to cmd.exe telling the shell to
/c
wait until the command completes before
proceeding. Without this switch, the shell executes
subsequent commands before the current command
finishes.
combustionSetup.exe is the combustion installer.
instructs the installer to run silently, without user
-s
interface.
You can specify options by using an .ini file. By
default, the combustion installer looks for the
Settings.ini file located in the same directory as the
combustionSetup.exe file.
Following are the properties and their default values.
If a property is not set, the installer uses the default
values.
Options Default Values
TargetDir C:\Program
Files\Discreet\
combustion 4
LicenseType 1
—
SerialNumber
ShortDesktop 1
InstallBackburner 1
InstallHelp 1
InstallDirectX 1
Description
combustion install
directory
1=standalone
license, 0=network
license
Product serial
number
1 or 0 to install or not
a shortcut on the
desktop
1 or 0 to install or not
backburner
1 or 0 to install or not
the Help files
1 or 0 to install or not
DirectX
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