Unattended Installs

Mar 29 2009

Unattended Installs – 7 Zip

7 Zip Logo7 Zip – Archive Tool

7 Zip is a freely distributable archiving tool that recognises heaps of different archive formats (e.g. .zip, .arj, .iso, etc).  Kind of a swiss army knife of archiving.

The method used here was tested and working with 7 Zip v4.65.

Download the latest version here.

I’m using the EXE version although there’s also an MSI version available.  A silent install on this one is fairly simple:

7z465.exe /S

That’s about it for this one.  I wish they were all this simple.

(This article is part of a series about the build disc I use to standardise system builds.  The series starts here and this particular article follows on from this one.)

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Mar 29 2009

The Build Disc – Part 4 (Standard Utilities)

Next ButtonStandard Utilities:

A standard build needs to be able to be standardised.  This means installing the same programs every time.  With a standard install, you have to hit the “Next” button regularly and make other selections to get the software installed. This can become long and involved, it takes time.  When you get busy, things get missed.

The goal for getting this installation standardised was to have all of these tools work as a silent/unattended install.  The combination of this, and a scripted install, means that you can get through the complete install with minimum interaction.

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