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ThomasH's avatar
ThomasH
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5 years ago
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Quartus Prime Standard 20.4 silent installation with SCCM

When deploying Intel FPGA 20.4 standard we run into an issue when attempting to install the software as required. The install will just hang up with no error message while running the Quartus install...
  • DougBarry's avatar
    DougBarry
    5 years ago

    Hi Thomas,

    I've spent 2 months fighting this myself and had a breakthrough. It seems that the Quartus installer uses 'Bitrock', and installer technology I have also been fighting when trying to install Microchip's MPLAB X IDE 5.5.

    Long story short, this forum post helped: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/397336/different-behaviour-required-vs-available-applicat.html

    Use the checkbox on the Programs tab of the Deployment Type, to 'Run installation and uninstallation as 32bit on 64 bit clients'. Once I ticked that, my script actually managed to install quartus on a couple of machines last night.

    I've written a long winded powershell script that pre-installs the usb blaster drivers (and puts their certs in machine trusted), installs quartus, then modelsim, then the patch for 20.1, and finally does the firewall entries for the right bits.

    The command line that now works as 32 bit process is:

    ...

    23/09/2021 05:43:43 Started Step2 Install
    Executing 'C:\WINDOWS\ccmcache\36\app\QuartusSetup-20.1.1.720-windows.exe --mode unattended --unattendedmodeui none --installdir "C:\Program Files\IntelQuartusV20" --accept_eula 1' at 23/09/2021 05:43:43
    23/09/2021 05:49:35 finished Step2 Install

    ...

    Have a go with that, hope it helps. It's been driving me up the wall for years since Intel took this over.

    Doug.

ThomasH's avatar
ThomasH
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5 years ago

Thanks for the quick response,
We attempted to run the install with "--skip_registration 1" without any luck. I have attached is the debug log that was generated.
--Also, could you help to describe what do you mean by "When we set the deployment to available it is able to successfully install." ?
in SCCM you can set a deployment to required (it will install automatically) or available (the install can be started by the user)

I've attached a screenshot of what we see, the quartus installer is running in the background and is using CPU and memory but there is no disk usage. We let that run for a couple hours without any change.

  • RichardT_altera's avatar
    RichardT_altera
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    5 years ago

    Hi @ThomasH

    Can you try a smaller size installer to see if it installs successfully? A good one to try is the Quartus Prime Pro Edition Help installer.

    Best Regards,
    Richard Tan

    p/s: If any answer from the community or Intel support are helpful, please feel free to give Kudos.