Yet another one of the little niceties, Acrobat Reader is very convenient to have around. The default download is a self-extracting executable that wraps an MSI; providing a /? switch indicates that /msi allows you to pass command-line arguments to msiexec, but I was unable to get that to work properly. I was also unable […]
Of course, no browser installation would be complete without Flash! Unfortunately for us, it’s a really dull installation. :)
Once the browser installation is complete, and no instances of the browser are left running, simply issue the following command:
C:\Temp\Flash>install_flash_player.exe /s
It’s as easy as that. The installer cannot be configured for different directories; it automatically detects where […]
So, with our core set of command-line tools installed, let’s get into installing something interesting, shall we?
Firefox was a bit difficult to unravel at first, but as with most things, once you know the trick, it’s fairly straightforward. First up, grab the latest Firefox 3 beta in your favorite language. You can unpack the self-extracting […]
My thanks go out to Mr. George Valsamis for providing a Greek translation of In Series. This particular language holds a special place in my heart, because Greek Letters is one of my standard test series that I create (along with Roman Numerals and Arabic Numerals). Thanks George!
This and all other translations are available on […]
An important tool in our command-line arsenal is a good archive extractor. I like 7-zip (downloads) for many reasons — it can handle a wide variety of files, it has good shell integration, it’s namesake compression algorithm is pretty good (if somewhat esoteric in the Real World), it comes with a command-line front-end, and it’s […]
A fairly high priority before getting further into installations on a fresh box is getting the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools installed. This package includes some rather interesting and useful command-line tools — a few of which (sleep, tail, …) should probably be installed with the OS by default. Doing a silent install of […]
I personally have already done the plain vanilla “creating a bootdisk” thing a zillion times already — there are plenty of references for how to make a plain-Jane bootdisk on the web, so I’ll save my breath on that until the end. Instead, I’m going to first focus on getting the essentials (and maybe a […]
