Running An Unattended Install

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How do I run a silent install from a command line/batch file?

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aalso if I do a silent install would I be correct in assuming that the 30 day trial gets installed and I will have to input a serial code later.

unknown

Hello,

I will give you an example as I believe this way you will understand it the easiest: Ex: c:\bitdefender.exe /bdparams /silent

where:

- bitdefender.exe is the name of the installation kit file;

NOTE: the silent install will ONLY work using the offline installation kit (the big installation file).

Also indeed, your assumption was correct: performing a silent install will start a trial of 30 days.

If you have any further queries don't hesitate to contact us anytime!

bigmonmulgrew

unfortunately when doing this I'm given a message asking if I would like to download the latest installation files and then the installation proceeds like a standard install.

rootkit

Hello

If you use the small kit(the online kit), you won't receive that message.

Download the file from here:

http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?act...f=241&id=44

Unpack it in a folder(with 7-Zip, WinZIP, WinRAR, etc)

Now, from command prompt, browse to that folder using the change directory command (cd) and run this command from silent install:

setupdownloader.exe/silent

Thank you.

nayan007

Hi,

Really I am enjoying reading all this kind of solutions which I don't know.Thank for posting.

bigmonmulgrew

ok firstly the good points

using the online installer it has done a silent install.

I downloaded the latest isecurity online kit and unpacked it using 7zip.

I then ran setupdownloader.exe /silent

This will cover 90% of the automated installation instances I need.

The bad points.

Firstly there appears to be no feedback to the command prompt, this concerns me that if I queue up several silent installs using a batch file then there will be a problem installing 2 programs in parallel. I could freeze the batch file on a timer but there is no way of knowing when the bd install has finished so I would need to add a very long wait time.

Is there a way to get the batch file to wait until BD has installed?

Secondly

I'd really like to do this with the offline kit, is there a way of using the offline kit but without the user message. Surely this defeats the point of a silent install. Using the offline kit will cut installation time considerably, on my first successful test run I was waiting around 10 min before anything happened.

rootkit

Hi bigmonmulgrew

Thank you for your feedback.

I will investigate the current situation and I'll get back to you these days.

Thank you again. Have a great weekend.

rootkit

Hello

I've made a feature request. All the data was sent to our developers.

Thank you. Have a nice day.

bigmonmulgrew

Thanks I really appreciate you passing that on.

I'm hoping to use the silent install to (amongst other things) reduce my labour time when installing new PCs. I cant use system imaging since almost all my units are custom builds

I can network each newbuild, its a pain but not much. Its the 10 min waiting to download that I'm hoping to remove here.

Again thanks for your input and for passing this on

rootkit

Welcome back

We are waiting for the project manager to approve your request.

Thank you.