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‎Apr 01, 2009
02:53 PM
CDROM Directory Structure
I have a question about the directory structure that gets created.
I have an installer that will run on 3 platforms. The size is over the size of a CD, but our installer media is a DVD, so I updated my project to increase the size of the media to DVD size.
When I build, I get a single "disk" in that everything is under Disk1, however, I don't like that my DVD has to have the Disk1 directory on it for the installer to work.
With ISMP, all of the installers and the jar that contained the files could be at the top level of the media.
Is there a way to do this with InstallAnywhere? I've searched the forums, and I've seen others with this question, but I've never seen an answer.
I have an installer that will run on 3 platforms. The size is over the size of a CD, but our installer media is a DVD, so I updated my project to increase the size of the media to DVD size.
When I build, I get a single "disk" in that everything is under Disk1, however, I don't like that my DVD has to have the Disk1 directory on it for the installer to work.
With ISMP, all of the installers and the jar that contained the files could be at the top level of the media.
Is there a way to do this with InstallAnywhere? I've searched the forums, and I've seen others with this question, but I've never seen an answer.
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‎Apr 02, 2009
12:28 AM
AFAIK, there is nothing you can do about the CDROM structure. However, I never understood the use of CDROM build option, as all that it does, as you noticed, it gets the Disk1 with the Resource1.zip out of the installer... but that's all! All you get is a a little time as the installer doesn't have to extract the Resource1.zip... but you still have the uncompressing of Resource1.zip... so basically I find CDROM not useful at all... I would have liked to have all resources extracted like for other install making programs... so, what I do, is that I use the WEB build option which produces single .exe setups and which I can put on a CD / DVD as I like...
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‎Apr 02, 2009
08:51 AM
I looked into that, but then each installer has it's own copy of the resources archive, so it increases the amount of space needed for each installer.
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‎Apr 02, 2009
09:34 AM
That depends. If, before you build, you activate the option "Optimize Installer Size by platform (Recommended for Final Shipping Installers)" then IA will bundle only the necessary resources for the respective platform (for instance if you install .dlls for Windows and .so for Unices based on platform checking conditions, then the Windows's Installer Resource1.zip will contain only .dlls while the Linux one will contain only .so files.