Make a silent/unattended installaion file

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I've been trying to create a silent/unattended installaion file, I follow the guide at...
https://www.ghisler.ch/wiki/index.php/How_to_make_installation_fully_automatic%3F
I've tried both with WinRar and sfxhead_installer to repack but I get same error.
All I changed in INSTALL.INF is...

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auto=1

"The Setup information file was not found! You need to unpack the whole archive before running Install.exe!"

What am I doing wrong?

regards
Marcus

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I jump the gun, I also added/changed these lines and now it works, not sure why.

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[auto]
alllang=0
iniloc=%ProgramFiles%\TotalCmd
iniall=1

[Destination]
Dir=%ProgramFiles%\TotalCmd

[Install]
2=wincmd.key

[ghisler(Author)]

What am I doing wrong?

You need to set the ZIP compression rate to 0 (zero). The installer does not contain the functions to unpack ZIP archives, just to read the list of files inside the archive. The reason is that these functions are larger than the space gained by packing the files. The CAB file containing the actual data has better compression than ZIP, and cannot be compressed any further.