18 Administrator Guide for SAS 9.1.3 Foundation for Microsoft Windows
Do not edit any settings below the warning line. If you want to change the selected
components while in Record Mode, click the Back button to return to the Select Components
dialog and make new selections. Otherwise, you must record a new quiet record file to change
these settings. Changes made to this information by any other means could invalidate the
quiet record file.
After you finish editing the quiet record file and click Next, Record Mode will finish. (If you
prefer, you can complete Record Mode, and edit the file later in your favorite text editor.)
You now have a quiet record file for use with Quiet Mode, which is addressed in the next
section.
Using Quiet Mode with SAS Setup
For large-scale enterprise deployment, it would be impractical to require an administrator or
user at each machine during installation. To meet this need, SAS Setup supports Quiet Mode.
Quiet Mode works in conjunction with Record Mode (see above) to provide a way to install
without requiring the presence of a user. To familiarize yourself with the prompts the wizard
would normally present to the user, review the section Interactive Use of SAS Setup on
page 14.
To run SAS
Setup in Quiet Mode, a quiet record file must have been created using Record
Mode (see above), and a single command line run on each machine on which you will run the
SAS software.
The source path of the command to be run will vary, depending upon the type of end user:
• Client Users: <Source Path>\SAS\SETUP.EXE
• Personal Users: <Source Path>\Disk1\SAS\SETUP.EXE
The command-line arguments to SAS Setup are the same, independent of the source path
used above. Usage is shown below:
Usage: "...\SAS\SETUP.EXE" -s
quietfile="<full path to quiet file>"
-f2"<full path to log file>"
For example:
M:\MyNetDrive\SAS\Setup.exe -s
quietfile="M:\MyNetDrive\SAS\quiet.ini"
-f2"C:\TEMP\QUIET.LOG"
Note: The -f2 option specifies where the log file should be created. In this case, the option
is required. Use this switch to specify a valid location where you have write
permission. Without a valid location and write permission, Setup may terminate
with no indication of failure.
This command can be used in the login script for your target users, in a Microsoft SMS
package, or in any other method that allows it to be run on the end user's machine without
requiring their presence.
For examples of how quiet mode might be used from a batch script, see the following files:
• sas\core\sasinst\examples\goquiet.cmd.txt
• sas\core\sasinst\examples\sasquiet.cmd.txt
• sas\core\sasinst\examples\srwquiet.cmd.txt
