No install.exe in the archive?

[MVV]

Hacker,
Well, I've written an instruction, while this was only a supplementary information describing the source of the magical number 144896.


Octopuss,
BTW there is an easier instruction for modifying tcmd900ax64.exe:
1. Split (Files - Split file) tcmd900ax64.exe with part size 4974280 bytes and save tcmd900ax64.001 part as tcmd900ax64_custom.exe (this step is required to strip SIGNATURE at the end of file).
2. Set compression level 0 in internal ZIP settings on Configuration - Zip packer settings page.
3. Enter tcmd900ax64_custom.exe as archive via Ctrl+PgDn.
4. Press F4 on INSTALL.INF, edit it and save, TC will ask to repack modified file, answer Yes. Check that modified INSTALL.INF in archive has compression ratio 0% and stored method in its properties.

Done!

[Octopuss]

IMO the easiest way to create an unattended installer/setup is the old installer. Download and extract both the old installer and the normal TC setup (tcmd*.exe) into a directory of your choice, edit install.inf as needed and you're good to go.

Unfortunately that doesn't work.
I run install.exe and nothing happens. Literally nothing. There's not even anything in EventLog.
If I try to run install64.exe, I get an error message about something missing.

[Erik]

That complicated way, MVV described, worked for me . Thanks.

All other, with installer.zip, newinstaller.zip and winrar sfx packing didn't work for me with tcmd900ax64.exe. Best result was: The setup information file was not found. With extracted files from the tcmd900ax64.exe and install64.exe renamed in install.exe it was able to install from an extracted version, if I started install.exe from there.

With the older tcmd852x64.exe I used winrar 5.40 to open, change and save the install.inf with no problems at all.

[Dalai]

Unfortunately that doesn't work.

Yes, it works. I just tried it. I extracted everyting from tcmd900ax32.exe (TC 9.0a 32 bit) and installer.zip. Then I double-clicked on install.exe and TC setup started just fine. Next I changed some settings in install.inf to ignore old TC location and enable unattended setup and double-clicked on install.exe again - it installed TC without any user intervention to the default location c:\totalcmd.

I'm pretty sure this works with TC x64 as well. The thing there is to rename install64.exe to install.exe (or install.inf to install64.inf), so that the EXE is able to find its INF file.

Regards
Dalai