Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0 Prerequisites
Microsoft Visual FoxPro Prerequisites offers
an administrator mode setup, which facilitates deployment to field clients. The
administrator initially runs setup to select which components will be deployed.
An .INI file is created based on this selection, and is then deployed by
running setup in unattend mode, pointing to the
generated .INI file. When run in unattend mode, setup
silently installs the designated options. If there are any errors, setup exits
silently with failure. This allows deployment through Microsoft Systems
Management Server.
|
To create the deployment .INI file |
|
1.
Insert the Visual FoxPro CD and ignore the autorun startup page. 2.
From the Start menu, click Run. 3.
In the Run dialog box, type the following: n:\Setup.exe /createunattend <path
to .INI file> For example: D:\Setup.exe /createunattend
c:\bsln_deployment.ini |
|
To run setup with the deployment .INI
file |
|
1.
Verify that the Prerequisites are available on the
network (see Creating a Network Image
later in this readme). 2.
From the Start menu, click Run. 3.
In the Run dialog box, type the following: \\<computer>\<share>\...\Setup.exe /unattendfile <path to .INI file> For example: \\products\VisualFoxPro\Setup.exe /unattendfile
\\computer\share\bsln_deployment.ini |
Administrator
setup is designed to run from a network image, rather than CDs.
|
To prepare a network image of the
Visual FoxPro CDs |
|
1.
Insert the Visual FoxPro 9.0 CD into your CD-ROM or DVD
drive. 2.
Open the CD drive in Windows Explorer. 3.
Press CTRL+A to select all, and then copy the
selection to a folder of your choice. 4.
When the copy is complete, remove the CD from your
drive. |
The following
is a list of components required for Visual FoxPro 9.0. It is recommended that
you choose the default list of components in the administrator mode of setup,
as they are required by before Visual FoxPro setup. Components in the list are
optional however, as you may wish to deploy some components using alternative
methods. When you run setup in createunattend
mode, only the components required for the operating system you are currently
running are listed. If you wish to deploy the system component updates to
multiple operating systems, you must run createunattend
for each operating system.
· Setup Runtime Files
· Microsoft Data Access
Components v.2.7
· Microsoft Jet 4.0
Service Pack 3
· Windows Installer 2.0
· Microsoft SOAP Toolkit
3.0
When
installing on an operating system with a different language from Visual FoxPro,
some components must be installed in the same language version as the operating
system. These components are not available for installation on
this disk, and must be downloaded and deployed separately. See Local.htm in the
same directory as this readme for more information.
When running
setup in createunattend mode with a file that already
exists, you will see an error "The data file <filename>
cannot be created. Setup cannot continue." Either delete the existing
file, or provide a unique file name.