Re: [Opencd-devel] regarding installation method

[Martin S. <bud...@bu...>]

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:14:14PM -0700, J Aaron Farr wrote:
 
> Perhaps I should clarify by what I mean as an HTML based installer.  There's a
> difference between and HTML based installer and and HTTP based installer.  The
> idea I am referring to is that when the CD is places in the computer's CD-ROM
> drive, either the system's default browser or some lightweight browser that can
> run off the CD starts (someone mentioned K-Meleon and if we can get that to
> work, I think it's a great idea).  The browser would load some HTML page that
> is locally found on the CD.  This HTML page would be the front end to the
> installer.  I imagine there would be quite a few pages on the CD-ROM.  From
> this loaded page, the user would be able to start any of the installers located
> on the CD-ROM.  Nothing would be installed via the internet, everything would
> load directly from the CD-ROM.  However, there could very well be links from
> these CD-ROM hosted HTML pages to the project website(s) and to other relative
> open source sites.  So in other words, all our autorun.exe file would need to
> do is run some browser (system specified or local to the CD) and load our
> "start.html" or "index.html" (or whatever) page that is on the CD-ROM.
> 
> At least that's what I've meant by an HTML based installer.

That's what the quick mock I have done does, check it out

http://www.budge.net/opencd/zip

or 

http://budgester.homeip.net/budge/opencd.zip

Have fun.

Budge

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> jaaron
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