Suspended installation

Carolyn Napier [MSFT]

2003-12-02 22:58:19 UTC

A suspended installation is an installation that has not completed (or in other
words, an unfinished installation transaction). The two typical scenarios when
a suspended installation will occur are:

(1) a power failure during installation
(2) package authored with the ForceReboot action and the reboot was
delayed/ignored. ForceReboot indicates a mandatory reboot, so the install will
be suspended until the reboot occurs.

Hope this helps,
- Carolyn Napier
Microsoft Windows Installer Team
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Post by Sebastian Bargmann
Hi,
What is a "suspended installation"? The MSI SDK says this about the
<quote>
The RESUME property is set when resuming a suspended installation. This
property can determine what text to display in the UI. For example, when not
in resume mode the user could be asked "Are you ready to install?" while in
resume mode the user could be asked "Are you ready to complete your
installation?".
</quote>
But how does one suspend an installation? I'm guessing that its a special
case that I have to enable somehow, but if not, I'd have to handle resuming
the installation...
Regards,
Sebastian