[WiX-users] Dealing with packages bigger than 2Gb
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb204770(VS.85).aspx#reduce_size
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Sent: Wed, October 6, 2010 8:31:51 PM
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Dealing with packages bigger than 2Gb
So you're assuming that whoever wrote the error message included three
different
ways to fix the problem, but chose not to mention the best way? W
So you're assuming that whoever wrote the error message included three
different ways to fix the problem, but chose not to mention the best way? Why
do you assume that?
> From: vivekanandan balaguru [mailto:vivb...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 7:49 PM
>
> We are trying to bui
"Either reduce the size of your installation package,
raise Media/@CompressionLevel to a higher compression level, or split your
installation package's files into more than one CAB file."
I would recommend the latter. Make a second element (give it an
Id="2" and a slightly different name than the
Light problems aside, I don't recommend you do this period. There are some
walls you will hit at install time in terms of performance and errors that can
happen when certain versions of windows don't have the right hotfixes or tons
of
memory available. An installer that big is likely better
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