Silent Install Of Firefox [Windows Azure Compute]
While developing in Windows Azure I am RDP-ing into the roles from time to time. It is quite handy to be able to browse the web from there as well. I decided to let my roles download and install Firefox on every publish. Here is how I did it:
I downloaded the Windows Azure Bootstrapper and put it into my solution (type content, copy if newer):
The second and last step was adding the following startup-task to my ServiceDefinition.csdef:
1 | <Task commandLine="StartupBinsBootStrapper.exe -lr c:Resourcesfirefoxsetup.exe -get http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-11.0 -run c:Resourcesfirefoxsetup.exe -Args /S" executionContext="elevated" taskType ="background" /> |
It downloads the current Firefox version to c:\Resources and executes the silent install.
Publish! Works! 