FP98: No Confirmation Setup Is Finished Running Setup /s

• Microsoft FrontPage 98 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you run the FrontPage 98 Setup program with the /s switch to perform a scripted setup, you do not receive a message indicating that setup has completed. The only indication you have that setup has completed is that the hard drive activity has stopped.

CAUSE

This behavior occurs if you originally installed FrontPage by running the Setup program with the /r switch and cleared the "Start FrontPage Explorer Now" check box in the Setup Complete dialog box. When you run the Setup program with the /r switch, the Setup program records a script that contains a set of instructions. These instructions will be used by the Setup program when you run the Setup program with the /s command. Because you cleared the "Start FrontPage Explorer Now" check box in the Setup Complete dialog box, FrontPage Explorer will not open at the end of installation and you will receive no confirmation that setup has been completed.

WORKAROUND

To work around this behavior and open FrontPage Explorer when the Setup program has finished, click to select the "Start FrontPage Explorer Now" check box in the Setup Complete dialog box when you run the Setup program with the /r switch. This information will be recorded in the Setup.iss file, which is created during installation, and it will affect all subsequent installations of FrontPage.

MORE INFORMATION

FrontPage allows you to run a scripted installation to eliminate interaction with the workstation during setup. This allows you to quickly and easily install FrontPage on multiple computers.

To perform a custom installation of FrontPage, you can use any of the following three switches when you run the Setup program:

   Switch      Description
   --------------------------------------------------------------------------

   /r          Records actions during installation.

   /s          Runs the script that is recorded when you use the /r switch.

   /f          Allows you to select one of several languages in the multi-
               language versions of FrontPage.

REFERENCES

For additional information about running scripted installations of FrontPage, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q181979
   TITLE     : FP: Setup Switches Available in FrontPage 97 and 98