deploy large file with

[kerpal]

Hi all,

Suppose I have a single file (over the capacity of a single CD) to be packed
into my setup project and the whole VB.NET application is to be distributed
on 2 or more CDs.
Any recommendations on how I can go about presumably compressing that file
and creating the installation CDs?

Thanks a lot.

[Jorge]

Hello

I don't its impossible to do it with the standard
installer from VS.NET. I've checked the features from
both Wise and Installshield and none of them refer multi-
cdrom installations.

www.wise.com
www.installshield.com/intro

Kind Regards
Jorge

-----Original Message-----
Hi all,

Suppose I have a single file (over the capacity of a single CD) to be packedinto my setup project and the whole VB.NET application is to be distributedon 2 or more CDs.
Any recommendations on how I can go about presumably compressing that fileand creating the installation CDs?

Thanks a lot.
.

[Brian W]

Maybe a better approach would be to find a way to make the file smaller.

For example, if you are trying to deploy a database, export the data to a
text file and create the DB from the exported data after the install. (A
typically will compress quite a bit)

What kind of file are you trying to deploy, maybe someone can advise you on
how to make it take up less room.

Regards
Brian W

"kerpal" <l@m.n> wrote in message
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Hi all,

Suppose I have a single file (over the capacity of a single CD) to be packed into my setup project and the whole VB.NET application is to be distributed on 2 or more CDs.
Any recommendations on how I can go about presumably compressing that file
and creating the installation CDs?

Thanks a lot.

[dermot]

kerpa

one answer would be to only install the app itself (presuming your large file is data), which can be done from one CD, then when the app ran the first time, it could prompt for the second & subsequent CDs and unpack the data file itself

regard

dermot

[Mike Wade [MSFT]]

You could try breaking this file into 2 larger cabs. Go to the setup project's property page, select Package Files: In
cabinet file's, and create a large custom cab size. Help from this property page claims that this is the
recommended way of breaking up an install across diskettes; CD would probably be a similar story.

--
Mike Wade, VB Team
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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From: "kerpal" <l@m.n>
Subject: deploy large file with
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:12:41 +0800

Hi all,

Suppose I have a single file (over the capacity of a single CD) to be packed
into my setup project and the whole VB.NET application is to be distributed
on 2 or more CDs.
Any recommendations on how I can go about presumably compressing that file
and creating the installation CDs?

Thanks a lot.