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Thread: Usage of Environment variables in .msi files |
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IT067015
Cruncher Joined: May 10, 2007 Post Count: 11 Status: Offline |
The automatic installation of the Boinc client requires to fill some parameters. One is called INSTALLDIR.
We want to personalize the installation in order to have a different INSTALLDIR for each user that run the installation code. How is it possible to use the Environment variable %USERNAME as part of the parameter INSTALLDIR? Thanks |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
The current version of BOINC doesn't handle multi-user installs particularly well. Personally, I wouldn't risk it.
As for how to do it - that depends solely on how you run the installation. You can author a transform, or pass the parameter on the commandline. If the former, then you hopefully know what you are doing. If the latter, then the normal command prompt environment variable resolution rules apply. |
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IT067015
Cruncher Joined: May 10, 2007 Post Count: 11 Status: Offline |
What do you mean with "The current version of BOINC doesn't handle multi-user installs particularly well. Personally, I wouldn't risk it."?
The shared install doesn't work well or a multiple single install doesn't work? We use a .msi file with all the installation parameter in it with a Single User as we are running the installation with User rights. It works! |
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