SteveRussell
16th December 2006 02:16 UTC
Installing from multiple media
In searching NSIS for help with installing from multiple CD's, I came across CABSetup. However, I am not completely comfortable with its warnings as my product is commercial.
I am wondering what my options are and what NSIS users do in the case of multiple media. If I put an installer on each CD (The bulk of my content is 3000 or more ogg and emf files.), does NSIS have a means for remembering the directory chosen or accepted by the user, thus enabling continued copying to the install directory without further prompting?
And is it perhaps preferable to place such files outside the installer?
Afrow UK
16th December 2006 11:49 UTC
You can try this alternative:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Multi-volume_Distribution
-Stu
SteveRussell
16th December 2006 13:23 UTC
Thank you. I don't know how I missed that example in my search.
Mr Inches
16th December 2006 22:59 UTC
What are the warnings with CABSetup that concerned you for a commercial product?
The only warning I know I put in for the suite was to exercise care if you run InstStub.exe outside of the suite since it will delete the file it runs, but that is it's job.
The compatibility issues are there as a guide for installer authors to know what their installer needs to do around the plug-in i.e. check right Windows version, clean up if Inststub doesn't complete (it does return a non-zero errorlevel), etc.
Duncan
SteveRussell
17th December 2006 03:05 UTC
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WARNING: Exercise extreme caution using this program, it will delete any
program launched by it, including standard Windows programs without
confirmation or warning (which it can launch since it searches the
path if necessary to find the child program.)
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
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All of your posts that I read indicated to me that you are far more qualified than I am in these things. But after five years of hard labor in my product, I steer clear of such risks and warnings.
As it turns out, all of our current files will happily fit on one cd.
Mr Inches
18th December 2006 13:47 UTC
Fair enough - thanks for the feedback.
Duncan