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Appendix A: Silent Installation
Xtium2-CXP PX8 User's Manual
Appendix A: Silent Installation
Both Sapera LT and the Xtium2-CXP PX8 driver installations share the same installer technology.
When the installations of Teledyne DALSA products are embedded within a third party’s product
installation, the mode can either have user interaction or be completely silent. The following
installation mode descriptions apply to both Sapera and the hardware driver.
You must restart the computer after the installation of Sapera LT. However, to streamline the
installation process, Sapera LT can be installed without restarting before installing the board
hardware device drivers. The installations then complete with a single final system reboot.
Perform Teledyne DALSA embedded installations in either of these two ways:
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Normal Mode
The default mode is interactive. This is identical to running the setup.exe program manually
from Windows (either run from Windows Explorer or the Windows command line).
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Silent Mode
This mode requires no user interaction. A preconfigured response file provides the user input.
The installer displays nothing.
Silent Mode Installation
A Silent Mode installation is recommended when integrating Teledyne DALSA products into your
software installation. The silent installation mode allows the device driver installation to proceed
without any user interaction.
Preparing a Silent Mode Installation requires two steps:
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Prepare the response file, which emulates a user.
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Invoke the device driver installer with command options to use the prepared response file.
Creating a Response File
Create the installer response file by performing a device driver installation with a
-r
command line
switch. The response file is automatically named
setup.iss
and is saved in the \windows folder. If
a specific directory is desired, use also the
–f1
switch.
As an example, to save a response file in the same directory as the installation executable of the
Xtium2-CXP PX8
, the command line would be:
Xtium2-CXP_PX8_1.00.00.0000 –r –f1".\setup.iss"
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Note that the name of the installer executable will reflect the version to be installed, instead of all the zeros
indicated here.
