Hi Jim,
it would seem that you are talking about a CD-browser-like functionality. In
the past we have used DemoShield (no longer available) from Installshield to do
this. There are a couple of freeware/shareware ones available, a good list is
shown on installsite.com [http://installsite.org/pages/en/tt_cdbrowse.htm]. In
the past, I have written a launcher in c++ to do prerequisite installs -- the
important thing to watch out for these kinds of tools is the prerequisites that
must exist on the machine before your launcher starts. You have to assume that
the machine you are inserting the CD into has just been installed and has no
.NET framework (if XP), no service packs, no updated C++ runtime, not visual
basic runtime etc. Be sure to test on a new, "virgin" OS installation either
on a Virtual box or on a real one. Testing this sort of stuff with a
Virtualization environment (especially VMWare, where you can do a whole bunch
of stuff, and then just not
commit, but revert back to the original), is a real timesaver.
Hope this helps,
Friedrich Brunzema
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