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Creating miniature installer downloader

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maczikasz#

Creating miniature installer downloader

Hello guys,

I have tried to search the interwebz, this forum and the manual, but one of my problem is that I don't know if there is a name for the thing I am trying to achieve

I have a relatively large installer, and I would like to have a sort of two tier installation, like what Google Chrome/Dropbox does. The idea is to have a very small installer (few hundred kb) that will download the real installer with a progress bar and start the installation on its own.

Obviously I could roll my own solution, I don't even expect it to be very hard, but would like to know if anybody is aware of any already working solutions for this problem.

Thank you,
Szava
Anders#
I don't think there are any sample scripts for this but it basically is just:
Section
InitPluginsDir
Inetc::get /youroptions http://example.com/big.exe "$pluginsdir\big.exe" /END
ExecWait '"$pluginsdir\big.exe"'
SectionEnd 
Use the InetBgDL plug-in instead if you want to design your own UI...