Re: Installation XSI server option

[Alan Jones <skyphyr(at)gmail.com>]

Hi Sébastien,

Can that be done from the command line? As the main advantage of not having the dialogue ask about deleting files is that it's easy to deploy the upgrade. If you're clicking on the machine telling it to not ask again and hitting yes once isn't a big deal. (Certainly less effort that running an uninstall).

Cheers,

Alan.

On 11/2/05, Sébastien Dion <sdion(at)softimage.com> wrote:

You have to run the XSI 5.0 setup and choose to remove the application.
Then you run the XSI 5.0.1 setup to install the new version.

This way there is no problem with overwriting files.

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]On Behalf
Of Thomas Helzle
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 10:57 AM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Installation XSI server option


hehehe - same thing here.
Alternatively you can sit there and keep a finger on the return button to overwrite everything...
Hours of fun ;-)

Best regards,

Thomas Helzle

On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:30:22 +0100, Alan Jones <skyphyr(at)gmail.com> wrote:

> We've just been running the 5.0.1 update here (in a very ugly way). Couldn't
> find a way to tell the installer to overwrite the existing files so we used
> the following batch called from psexec (which itself ran it for a text list
> of machine name per line).
>
> del /S /F /Q c:\softimage\XSI_5.0
> P:\XSI\install\XSI_5.0\Setup\setup.exe -cmdline
> -profile:P:\XSI\install\PROFILES\5.0_win32.ini -installpath:c:\softimage
> -noreboot
>
> Just in case it's of interest to anyone.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan.
>
> On 11/2/05, Stefan Andersson <sanders3d(at)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> ha! that was quite clever, never thought about using a renderfarm
>> service for that :)
>>
>> cool tip! thanks!
>>
>> regards
>> stefan andersson
>>
>> On 11/2/05, Dan Yargici < dan(at)imajonline.com> wrote:
>> > I do all our installations with Smedge. If a 100 machine farm had
>> > smedge installed, I reckon I could install XSI on all of them from a
>> > server install in about 20 mins using batch files and the 'Generic
>> > Script' job type in Smedge.
>> >
>> > DAN
>> >
>> > Stefan Andersson wrote:
>> >
>> > >Hello everyone,
>> > >
>> > >I'm just shooting out in the air here to see what other people do (who
>> > >mainly are windows based).
>> > >I haven't (to be honest ) tested the server install with XSI yet.
>> > >Mainly because I think it would use a lot of bandwidth when everyone
>> > >is also launching their application from a server install, or am I
>> > >wrong here? Before I've always been working with companys that had a
>> > >sysadmin or a TD that would know these things... well... moving back
>> > >to a small country this is no longer the case :)
>> > >So I was wondering what peoples thoughts are? At the moment I'm doing
>> > >a local install on 3 machines and 10 renderslaves, which can take some
>> > >time. My guess is that server install would make this easier, but is
>> > >there anything special to think about? will I have the same problem as
>> > >having workgroups on a server instead of localy?
>> > >
>> > >best regards
>> > >stefan andersson
>> > >
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