Anyone out there packaging CS3 successfully with LANrev/Iceberg? Silent Install the only option?

[mgb123]

I was trying to package up CS3 with LANrev, but so far have met with the dreaded ‘Licensing for this product has stopped working…’

Is the dreaded Silent Install the only way?

Is silent install the only way forward for updates as well?

[macmattias]

I have used Comopser to make a pkg out of CS3 and it works fine. (And I am not a full Casper Suite user). Design Premium is about 3,5 Gb as a pkg.

[pteeter]

I have successfully used logGen / pkgGen / PackageMaker to create a CS base installer.

I have also successfully used that set of tools to create update packages, the caveat being a preflight script was required to remove specific files.

I’ve tested it on PPC, x86, Tiger, & Leopard.

I am probably going to modify the pkg so that each CS3 component installs separately, i.e.

pkg for Photoshop
pkg for Illustrator
pkg for InDesign
pkg for Dreamweaver
pkg for Flash
pkg for all updates
etc.

Borrowing from PFergus, this type of modular approach is more in the spirit of InstaDMG I think.

[mavin]

I’m having the same problem mgb123, Composer kept throwing me errors during package creation so I switched to LANrev but I lose the Licensing everytime.

I have a few questions for those of you that have had success.

1) are you enabling root with the initial snapshot and install?
2) do you enter the licensing before the snapshot or are you manually entering it on first run?
3) has anyone successfully deployed CS3 in a networked-home lab?
4) can updates be applied before licensing/first run or only after?

pteeter, I’m interested in knowing how the modular packaging works, esp with the shared components. Please keep us updated if you can.

Any pointers are greatly appreciated, cheers.

[akinspe]

I had to remove files that had tilde’s (~) in them. There were two folders, one for Dreamweaver, one for Pshop that had them. Once I removed them (or the tildes) all was good.

[mavin]

I’ve answered my own questions. Composer/LANrev don’t seem to maintain the integrity of the SQLite data or the trusted file for FLEXnet.

logGen/pkgGen have been the most reliable solution so far.

[foilpan]

i used the free lanrev installease app to generate a clean pkg for mass installs of site licensed cs3 premium with no real trouble so far.

to save time, i took an initial snapshot, installed the whole suite, serialized it, downloaded and installed the updates, and made the package. it took awhile, but installs now only take about 10 minutes or less as opposed to a couple of hours (at best).

lanrev seems to have problems with the packagemaker installed with the version 3.0 dev tools, so i used the older v2 under 10.4, and all was well.

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