Software Deployment

Refer this link
http://itninja.com/question/help-with-msi-1340.
i think this might help you.

Thanks Prashanth....
i also tried with silent installationsetup.exe /q but it didnt help me...

How are you planning on deploying this?

If you are using SMS you can just get away with dotnetfx35.exe /qb /norestart

If you are going to use AD then have a look at this article - although it's a pretty painful process... Well done Microsoft! http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc160717.aspx

Have a look at "Troubleshooting 1935 and 2908 errors during installation"
http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2004/11/10/255346.aspx

Sorry for resurrecting this thread. But I also need to install .NET 3.5. I'm trying to automate and script the installation of some programs and drivers, and .NET 3.5 sp1 is a pre-requisite of one of them - and this is preventing the installation.

I've noticed that using dotnetfx35.exe /qb /norestart requires web access (to download additional files), and I dont have web access at this point in the installation.

Is it possible to download all the file I require and then script the installation of .NET 3.5 & SP1?

I found .msu files in appdata\temp folder. They might do the trick for offline installation?

As with previous .Net F/W releases, there is a bootstrapper download and a full download. The link to the full download is a little further down the page from where you downloaded the bootstrapper version, something which a search of the forum here would have uncovered. Anyway, the full download can be obtained from here.

This is probably way to late for this post, but just in case anyone in future needs to know this.

The .Net 3.5 install goes slow because it tries to connect to the net and download non-English language packs, you prevent this by just defining the language as being English in the install.

dotnetfx35.exe /q /norestart /lang:enu

Of course make sure you are using the full offline install package too :)