Alternative to dotNetInstaller for chaining MSI's?

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Published on 2010-06-07T13:32:12Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 16:22 UTC
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Is there a better alternative to dotNetInstaller for chaining MSI's, MSU's and EXE files? In other words a bootstrapper.

dotNetInstaller is terrible in quiet mode with no options/documentation on what parameters to pass when a component install fails etc (e.g Continue Yes/No)

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