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I have a device driver installation package using the deployment method for
creating the MSI in Visual Studio 2005. This MSI places all of the files on the PC needed for device driver installation and then performs a custom action to call an executable to pre-install the INFs and drivers onto the PC. For Windows XP and 2k this mechanism works fine. But when I installed the MSI on Vista RC1 or earlier I always received the message "There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program required for the installation could not be run. Contact your support personal" which forced the package to unload. Before clicking the OK button I check the directory structure and everything is present and installed in the correct directory. I tried using the msiexec command line option to log the installation but the package was not installed correctly. In the MSI we create and install the INFs and drivers in the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Motorola Shared\MotPCSDrivers. When I run the command line option the installer installs the files in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Motorola Shared\MotPCSDrivers\Common Files\Motorola Shared\MotPCSDrivers which is completely wrong. The installation completes but the installation did not add my menu items in the start up menu or does not show up in the add/remove programs for me to uninstall the MSI. |
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