RE: [WiX-users] Creating CD images

[Rob M. <ro...@us...>]

Interesting.  This sounds like a good thing for WiX to support.  I'm
curious, is there a reason you don't compress all of your files?

Anyway, let me think about this.  I think WiX can do more to help you here.

-----Original Message-----
From: wix...@li...
[mailto:wix...@li...] On Behalf Of Jason Swager
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 8:29 PM
To: wix...@li...
Subject: [WiX-users] Creating CD images

I've got a fairly large installation, one that spans several CDs.  WiX has
no trouble building it into a single directory (and subdirectories).
However, I need to split the install up into directories where each
directory will be copied to a CD.

At first, I thought I could do this via the <Media Source="{cd directory}"/>
sort of approach but that didn't work.  The WiX documentation doesn't say
what the Source attribute does, but the MSI SDK implies that it is used
patching.

Next, I found that by setting the SourceName and LongSourceName attributes
on <Directory> would allow me to build the files into a different directory.
This works as long as I put all of the contents of a directory into the same
directory\CD image.

But even that doesn't work all the time.  I have one directory that has more
files than can fit onto a single CD.  I can't use the <Directory
SourceName="{directory}"> for these files.

Is there a proper way to do what I'm trying to do?  Or is this something
beyond WiX and I'm responsible for putting all the files into the
appropriate directories myself?

Jason Swager




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