DuaneJeffers
16th December 2001 19:25 UTC

Feature Request: Splitting an installer
I was browsing the Nullsoft site and I saw ASS I/O. My question is, could NSIS use the ASS I/O program to split the installer?? Something like this:

SplitInstaller [size in kb]

After this function the MakeNSIS program would then create the .ass files (or make .nsis file) that NSIS would interpret.

Just a thought though.

-Duane

liquidmotion
16th December 2001 21:10 UTC

sounds like quite the idea, although i think this has been brought up b4.

maybe not tho.

justin
17th December 2001 01:33 UTC

Why bother?

-Justin

mcgarrah
17th December 2001 14:22 UTC

The answer might be to support diskette installs but with the cost of CD media being so low, I cannot see anyone using diskettes to distribute software. AOL isn't giving disks away anymore. :)

My install is small enough that I can fit on a single 1.44MB diskette if I want to use diskettes so I don't care yet.

DuaneJeffers
18th December 2001 07:26 UTC

This idea was 1) not created by me
and 2) is something that would be great.

The reason for this is that I am working on Linux Emulator for Win32 and a Linux OS that can read and execute from a FAT32 and NSFT partitions. For the Win32 emulator, I need an installer. This for my project admin, as I am the only win32 packager they have. We want NSIS, but we are making the OS big enough to put on 2 CDs.

Hence my problem
-Duane

justin
18th December 2001 08:29 UTC

Whoa if you are talking about a 1.2gb+ installer, you shouldn't be putting all of the files in the EXE anyway. How about storing some of the larger ones in the CD-ROM filesystem and using CopyFiles?

-Justin

trace
18th December 2001 20:53 UTC

...yea this was my idea :D

liquidmotion
19th December 2001 01:15 UTC

duane just wants to package his *warez* :) hahaha

DuaneJeffers
19th December 2001 01:52 UTC

J-
True True, I don't know what my Project Admin is thinking, I will tell him, but I don't think he'll like it.

Liquid-
Yea!!!!

Truth though, The we are waiting for confermation on a loan ... So That is why we are using the Free Installer. I am thinking about quitting because I am working for free ... I HATE IT!!! (But I love being the Admin of the NSIS Project House).

-Duane

prodangle
19th December 2001 16:35 UTC

One possible use could be to make it simpler for poor dial-uppers like myself to download biggish (20mb+) packages. Whenever I am downloading some piece of shareware 20mb or more, sods law guarauntees that I'll get disconnected when I've downloaded 19mb of it, but only if it's coming from a non-resumable server, or if I've forgotten to use a resuming downloader. It would make it simple to offer large installers as a set of smaller files for unfortunate dialup folks like myself :)

trace
19th December 2001 20:14 UTC

yea i`m a shitty little dialup-er 2.

happy holidays, make your all wishs come true :)

cheers, trace ;)