Some advice about an installation

VinIl · Post by **VinIl** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:05 am

Hi,

I've been tasked building an installer and I'm evaluating InstallAware for the task. The installer should:

- check several hardware and software prerequisites in the target machine.
- download from the web and install the .msi files of the software requeriments that aren't available in the client machine.

I've search information and I've seen that checking requeriments is pretty easy, but I'm unable to find any information about if it's possible to download a .msi (from a well known URL) and then install it nested in the current installer.

Any light you can give me about this subject would be welcomed.

Regards,

MichaelNesmith · Post by **MichaelNesmith** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:55 am

First, read about the Web Media Block command - that might work well for you. Also see this whitepaper:

http://www.installaware.com/installawar ... s_view.pdf

That might be another helpful resource.

To achieve what you want in the quickest way possible, just use the Download File and (Un)Install MSI Setup commands. But the resources above should also be interesting.