Variables cannot be used inside silent installation answer files. You
can have your own program( a wrapper)
that takes care of manipulating the correct file contents based on the
variable(%PROGRAMFILES% or %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%)
and then invoke the installer in silent mode.
HTH
Thanks
Sathyan
On 2/29/12 5:43 PM, forums_at_java.net wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> First of all, sorry if this has been answered before but I couldn't
> find it
> and I need this for an installer we need to make.
>
> This very simple installer will just install JDK, MySQL and Glassfish,
> all of
> them with unattended modes.
>
> Problem is, besides the fact that it will be Windows-based, target pc is
> unknown so it might be Windows XP, Windows 7, etc. but also might be
> english,
> spanish, etc. This means that "c:\Program Files" will not always be the
> default program files path and therefore I need to use the %PROGRAMFILES%
> variable (or %PROGRAMFILES(X86), but I'll take care of that).
>
> When I create the dry-run configuration, I need to be able to specify the
> JDK path as, for some reason, the installer will never find it by itself
> (yes, JAVA_HOME was set up before installing and still didn't find it).
>
> So, my problem is, how can I specify the Program Files variable path
> in the
> JDK path when using dry-run installation? In my case, I'd need to be
> able to
> set %PROGRAMFILES%\Java\JDKxxxx to JDKSelection.directory.HIDDEN_JDK but
> I haven't been able to yet.
>
> Is there any way to do this?
>
> Thanks
>
>
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