Q: How to restart the computer after completion of the installation?A: In most cases the LizaJet Installer detects automatically if the computer must be restarted and performs the restart, for instance if a file to be replaced during the installation is being used by a running application.
However, if you need to force restart of the computer, call the RebootComputer function. The computer will be restarted after the installation exits.
Q: How to make a backup of the previously installed application before starting the installation?
A: You don’t need to do that. The backup is made automatically by the LizaJet Installer. If a file is replaced or deleted during the installation, its backup copy is automatically put in the backup folder of the Engine. If the installation is aborted by the user or if the user later uninstalls the application, the file will be restored from the backup folder. The same applies to the registry values and the values stored in the INI files. These values are stored in the installation log file.
Q: What kind of images (Gif, Bmp etc.) can I use in the dialogs?A: Currently only the BMP format is supported in the dialogs. But do not worry about the size of the image files: the dialog resources that include the images are compressed.
Q: How do I include LizaJet Engine in my packages?A: It is done automatically when you create the Deployment Set. If you use the Single Setup distribution, the Engine is included in your single setup file. If you use the split setup, the Engine installation file is put into the deployment folder. The Engine installation file is called SetLizaJet.exe.
Q: Where can I find the (error) log of the installation?A: The log files of the installations are put into the common application data folder which is typically C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data. The data files of the LizaJet Engine are stored below that folder, in the subfolder named LizaJet\Engine. In that subfolder there is a nested subfolder for each package installed. The names of that nested subfolders are the Package IDs of the corresponding packages. The log file of a particular package is stored in the corresponding subfolder.
So if your Package’s ID is {11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111}, then its log file is stored in the folder C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\{11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111}. The human readable log file is named setup.txt.
Typically the log file contains the lines like this:
============================== 09.01.2004 19:41:26 ==============================
Installing Installation Stub Files 1.1.0.35
1 Info Installation started.
6 Info Installation complete.
If an error occurred during the installation, the log file contains the corresponding error message.
There is also a binary log file in the same folder which is used by the Engine for uninstall. The file is named setup.log.
