Call it frugality. Call it insanity. Call it what you will, but I’m converting my computers that I use for my consulting business to Linux. That’s right, I’m a Microsoft Certified computer consultant whose going to switch to Linux. Actually, I’ll go one step further: I’m going to try to switch completely to Free Software. This is the start of my journey.

I have provided two sample batch files for silently installing QuickBooks 2008.  In order to determine the variable names and values for a QuickBooks 2008 installation I used Microsoft’s Orca tool which comes with the Windows SDK Components for Windows Installer Developers kit. The first batch file called install.bat installs QuickBooks 2008 on the local machine.  You will have to edit this file to provide your own License and Products numbers for the installation.  The [...]