AUTO INSTALLERS – THE TIME SAVERS IN THIS TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD-Danny Nagdev

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Auto Installers – The Time Savers in this Technological World Prepared by: Danny Nagdev, MKCL, India

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AUTO INSTALLERS – T HE T IME S AVERS IN THIS

T ECHNOLOGICAL W ORLD

BACKGROUNDThis paper talks about various Software Auto Installers which were created by Maharashtra

Knowledge Corporation Limited (MKCL) to save huge delays and human efforts, caused due to

software installation procedures at our learning centers. Before touching upon how we went about

creating these Auto Installers, it would be apt to introduce MKCL as it would emphasize the

magnitude of the problems faced by our learning centers while installing the softwares.

ABOUT MKCL

MKCL- Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Limited- is a public limited company established in

Mumbai by the Government of Maharashtra, India, in August 2001, to create new paradigm ineducation and development through universalization and integration of Information Technology in

teaching, learning and educational management processes in particular and socio-economic

transformative processes in general.

MKCL is an entrepreneurial endeavor to bridge the Digital Divide and the resultant Knowledge

Divide and Opportunity Divide by offering actionable knowledge and essential services to masses for

socio-economic transformation.

In order to bridge the digital divide, MKCL launched a state-wide IT Literacy course in the form of

Maharashtra State Certificate in Information Technology Program - MS-CIT in July 2002. Thisprogram is implemented across the state through a private-public-partnership (PPP) network of

more than 5000 Authorized Learning Centers (ALCs) spread all across rural and urban areas of the

State. Over 5.5 million learners have gone through this course in the last nine years.

THE PROBLEM – AN OPPORTUNITY TO INNOVATE

As the number of learning centers grew in number, so did the number of computers in each center.

This resulted in a huge computer base of approximately 20,000 computers. Due to Internet

bandwidth constraints the in-house developed Learning Management system, along with the full

eLearning content was installed on the desktop (designated as server) of each learning center. This

gave faster access to the eLearning content to the students of the center.

In order to curb software piracy, Operating Systems, Application Softwares and Antivirus softwares

were centrally purchased and sent to each center in DVDs. The LMS and its prerequisites like

Microsoft .Net Framework, Windows Installer etc. were also sent along with these DVDs.

Every center has a center coordinator who used these DVDs and installed these softwares on the

centers computers. Even though it seems to be a very simple software installation process, it resulted

in a very time consuming and labor intensive process. Figure 1 depicts a typical software installation

scenario.





Auto Installers – The Time Savers in this Technological World Prepared by: Danny Nagdev, MKCL, India

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THE WAY FORWARD

With the success of the Single click software auto installer, a need was also felt to automate the

Operating System Installation procedure along with the softwares installed on it. The Operating

System Auto Installer would further save time and effort of the center coordinators by automating the

installation of the operating system and softwares; assigning IP addresses, create a windows domain,

create sample student user accounts etc. Figure 3 depicts a typical Auto installer process for this

requirement:

Figure 3: A typical OS Auto Installer process

We have almost completed the creation of the OS Auto Installer with the use of free tools[4][5].

Furthermore, research is in progress for the creation of a Virtual Machine based USB Pen Drive which

would copy and run a preconfigured Virtual Machine onto the client ’s Hard disk and run from there.

REFERENCES

[1] Almeza Multiset Auto Installer [online]. http://www.almeza.com/

[2] Various Auto Installers [online]. ]. Available from:

http://www.filetransit.com/files.php?name=Automatic_Install

[3] RoboSetup Auto Installer [online]. Available from:

http://robosetup.high-mountain-group.qarchive.org/

[4] Windows Unattended CD Creator [online]. Available from:

http://www.vitaligraf.de/en/?Projects:Windows_Unattended_CD_Creator

[5] Auto IT Script [online]. Available from: http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/index.shtml

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