ADOBE ACROBAT WINDOWS 74 RE CREATING A SILENT UNATTENDED INSTALL OF ACROBAT
From: usarif@no-spam
Subject: Re: Creating a silent unattended install of Acrobat
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 09:26:52 -0800


here is some references from appdeploy.com
Unlike Acrobat Reader, this new release does not use InstallShield's PackageForTheWeb. Instead, it uses something called the "Netopsystems FEAD optimizer", whose command-line switches are documented nowhere.


However, Adobe provides silent installation instructions in their knowledgebase articles 53446 and 53495. Viewing these requires registering for an account with the "Adobe Solutions Network"; how annoying. Briefly, the magic invocation is:


AdbeRdr60_enu_full.exe -p"-s /v\"/qn\""

Alternatively, you can get hold of the MSI file with a quick hack. If you start the installer and wait for it to finish extracting files, you will find it creates a folder named %SystemRoot%\cache\Adobe Reader 6.0\ENUBIG. (SystemRoot is normally C:\WINNT or C:\WINDOWS.)


This folder contains the complete uncompressed tree, including an MSI file named Adobe Reader 6.0.msi. So just copy the ENUBIG folder to, say, Z:\packages\AdobeReader60, and you can perform unattended installations like any other MSI package:


msiexec /qb /i "z:\packages\AdobeReader60\Adobe Reader 6.0.msi"

Hope would work. i tried it and works fine....

(hope little warmer in minnesota)









From: Luke_Angel@no-spam
Subject: Re: Creating a silent unattended install of Acrobat
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 15:09:40 -0800

I am actually wanting to do this for the full version of Acrobat not the reader