Can't get this installer to extract correctly. :(

[Sukhoi]

OhioDude and I have made up a SETI Driver installer using InstallShield. However, his version of InstallShield won't combine all the install files into a single file. Because of this, I've been trying to create a self-extracting ZIP or RAR file that will then automatically run the setup.exe from InstallShield. For some reason, the self-extracting files I'm making aren't working right. I've tried both WinRAR and some other installer I found on download.com when I was there. It seems that the self-extracting file is trying to run setup.exe before all the files have been extracted to the temorary folder. Just about every time I've tested it, InstallShield has locked up at the 100% loading part (not the installing part). One time I actually got it to run, but when InstallShield went to install SETI Driver I got an error that a file was missing. Any ideas on how to get this to work right? I don't have to have a self-extracting file, but it would be nice.

 

[Smoke]

Dumb suggestion but can you use the SetiDriver.zip instead of the SetiDriver.exe and have that be the last thing to execute?

I know absolutely nothing about programming but you mentioned that SetiDriver was starting too quickly (or before the rest of the process was completed).

:Q

[Edit]Nevermind, I reread your post and that is not the problem at all.

/me goes to sit back in the corner.

 

[Shuxclams]

Is there a way to make pause between commands, like an errorlevel check or something? So the secondary part of the install wont start until it gets a "finished" value from the first process?











SHUX

 

[Sukhoi]

Shux, I don't think WinRAR or that other self-extractor have any options that complicated. I'll play around with it some more tomorrow and see if I can get it to work.

Smokeball, it's not executing SETI Driver at all. The self-extracting file is executing setup.exe which is the InstallShield file that then installs SETI Driver on the computer.