Rescue and recovery installation – Lenovo ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery 4.3 (Deployment Guide) User Manual
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actions performed by the Add/Remove Programs applet from Control Panel. The
log file is not created when your are running the setup.exe file directly from the
MSI package. To create a log file for all MSI actions, you can enable the logging
policy in the registry. To do this, create the following value:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer]
"Logging"="voicewarmup"
The following table shows examples of installations using the setup.exe file.
Table 1. Examples of running Setup.exe
Description
Example
Perform silent installation with no reboot.
setup.exe /s /v”/qn REBOOT=”R””
Perform administrative installation.
setup.exe /a
Perform silent administrative installation
specifying the extract location for the Rescue
and Recovery program.
setup.exe /a /s /v”/qn TARGETDIR=”F:
\TVTRR””
Perform silent uninstallation.
setup.exe /s /x /v/qn
Perform installation with no reboot. Create
an installation log in temp directory for the
Rescue and Recovery program.
setup.exe /v”REBOOT=”R” /L*v %temp%
\rrinstall43w.log”
Perform installation without installing the
Predesktop Area.
setup.exe /vPDA=0
The table below shows installation examples using Rescue and Recovery.msi:
Table 2.
Description
Example
Perform installation.
msiexec /i “C:\TVTRR\Rescue and
Recovery.msi”
Perform silent installation with no reboot.
msiexec /i “C:\TVTRR\Rescue and
Recovery.msi” /qn REBOOT=”R”
Perform silent uninstallation.
msiexec /x “C:\TVTRR\Rescue and
Recovery.msi” /qn
Perform installation without installing the
Predesktop Area.
msiexec /i “C:\TVTRR\Rescue and
Recovery.msi” PDA=0
Rescue and Recovery installation
The following instructions are for the files that can be downloaded separately from
the Individual language files for Large Enterprise download page.
1.
The main installation executables for the Rescue and Recovery program are:
v
Z902ZISXXXXUS00.exe
v
Z902ZABXXXXUS00.tvt
where XXXX is the build ID. This is a self-extracting installation package that
extracts the installation source files and launches the installation using the
Windows Installer. It contains the installation logic and the Windows
application files. The package does not contain any of the Predesktop Area files.
2.
Predesktop Area US Base (approximately 135 MB): This is the password
protected zip file that contains the entire Predesktop Area US base. Its name is
in the following formats:
v
Z902ZISXXXXUS00.exe
Chapter 2. Installation
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