Hi Mark,

A few things:

1) What is in SETUP.LOG after the install fails?

2) What does your SETUP.ISS file look like?

3) Does this fail on any machine you try it on, or
   just one machine?

4) Which version of Windows are you trying to do the
   install on (probably NT 4.0), and what service
   pack?

5) Before starting the install, did you shut down all
   Windows apps? In particular, it is important that
   you stop any ADSM client services that might be
   running (i.e. scheduler, client acceptor, remote
   client agent).

6) If you copy the client installation files to the
   machine's local disk, leaving them in their
   original directory structure (ADSMCLI\WIN32\INTEL,
   etc.) does the silent install work?

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Storage Systems Division
ADSM Client Development
e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com
"The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked."

We are trying to get a silent install to work here and everything appears to be
going fine untill near the end of the install, the Backup client icon appears on
the desktop and then it dissapears and the install begins to remove its files
and then quits.  Where can i look for error messages?

Here's a copy of the batch file we are running.

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Setup.Bat

NET USE I: \\Servername\ADSMINST
I:
CD\
XCOPY I:\Weekly C:\ADSM\Weekly /E /C /I /F /H /R
COPY I:\INSDLSVC.BAT C:\ADSM\INSDLSVC.BAT
COPY I:\INSWKSVC.BAT C:\ADSM\INSWKSVC.BAT
COPY I:\SOON.EXE %SYSTEMROOT%
NET START SCHEDULE
SOON 900 C:\ADSM\INSDLSVC.BAT
SOON 930 C:\ADSM\INSWKSVC.BAT
CD \ADSM Client - 3.1.07
cd .\disk1
setup.exe -s

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INSDLSVC.BAT

C:\ADSM\BACLIENT\dsmcutil install /name:"ADSM Daily Scheduler Service"
/clientdir:C:\adsm\baclient /optfile:C:\adsm\baclient\dsm.opt
/node:%COMPUTERNAME% /password:adsm /autostart:Yes /machine:%COMPUTERNAME%

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INSWKSVC.BAT

C:\ADSM\BACLIENT\dsmcutil install /name:"ADSM Weekly Scheduler Service"
/clientdir:C:\adsm\weekly\baclient /optfile:C:\adsm\weekly\baclient\dsm.opt
/node:W%COMPUTERNAME% /password:adsm /autostart:Yes /machine:%COMPUTERNAME%

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Thanks in Advance
Mark Mooney