Mac OS X silent install?

Hello,
I want to deploy Flash Player 9 to 300 Macs (10.4) and
couldn't find any reference to a silent or pkg install. There's
plenty of useful information about MSI deployment but I haven't
found anything about Mac OS X.
Can anyone point me in the direction of any documentation I
may have missed or have any great ideas how this could work.
Thank you
Joe

I know nothing about Mac OS, but perhaps you can find some information in
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/deploying_reader9.pdf

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<[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I am having the same issue. followed Adobe's White paper and everytime
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