Installation components, Administrative installation procedure – Lenovo ThinkPad R61i User Manual
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Installation components
This section contains installation components of Rescue and Recovery.
Administrative installation procedure
The Windows Installer can perform an administrative installation of an application
or product to a network for use by a workgroup or for customization. For the
Rescue and Recovery installation package, an administrative installation unpacks
the installation source files to a specified location.
You can obtain the setup package from:
To perform an administrative installation, run the setup package from the
command line using the /a parameter:
setup.exe /a
An administrative installation presents a wizard that prompts the administrative
user to specify the locations for unpacking the setup files. The default extract
location is C:\. You can choose a new location which may include drives other
than C:\. For example, other local drives or mapped network drives. You can also
create new directories during this step.
To run an administrative installation silently, you can set the public property
TARGETDIR on the command line to specify the extract location.
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For installation target directory paths that do NOT contain spaces, use the
following command line as an example:
setup.exe /a /s /v"/qn TARGETDIR=F:\TVTRR"
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For installation target directory paths that contain spaces, an escape character '/'
must be placed preceding the double-quoted target directory:
setup.exe /a /s /v"/qn TARGETDIR=\"F:\TVTRR\Rescue and Recovery\""
Note:
If your version of Windows Installer is not current, setup.exe is configured
to update the Windows Installer engine to version 3.0. This update will cause the
installation action to prompt for a reboot even with an administrative extract
installation. Use the reboot properly to prevent a reboot in this situation. If the
Windows Installer is at least version 3.0, setup.exe will not attempt to install.
or using msiexec.exe,
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For installation target directory paths that do NOT contain spaces:
msiexec.exe /a "Lenovo Rescue and Recovery.msi" /qn TARGERDIR=F:\TVTRR
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For installation target directory paths that contain spaces:
msiexec.exe /a "Lenovo Rescue and Recovery.msi" /qn TARGERDIR=
\"F:\TVTRR\Rescue and Recovery\"
Once and administrative installation has been completed, the administrative user
can make customizations to the source files, such as adding settings to the registry.
To install from the unpacked source after customizations are made, the user calls
msiexec.exe from the command line, passing the name of the unpacked MSI file.
Using msiexec.exe:
To install from the unpacked source after making
customizations, the user calls msiexec.exe from the command line, passing the
name of the unpacked *.MSI file. msiexec.exe is the executable program of the
Installer used to interpret installation packages and install products on target
systems.
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