If you look in the SDK you will see that ROOTDRIVE means exactly the
drive with the most space. If you want to install to a folder off the
system drive you need a custom action e.g.
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="DATALOCATION" Name="My data folder" />
</Directory>
<CustomAction Id="SetDataLocationDefault" Property="DATALOCATION"
Value="[WindowsVolume]My data folder" />
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="SetDataLocationDefault" After="CostInitialize" />
</InstallExecuteSequence>
<InstallUISequence>
<Custom Action="SetDataLocationDefault" After="CostInitialize" />
</InstallUISequence>
This will normally set DATALOCATION to "C:\My data folder".
Hope this helps.
Neil
-----Original Message-----
From: Rafael Rivera [mailto:raf...@withinwindows.com]
Sent: 24 June 2009 17:25
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] Taming ROOTDRIVE, Windows volume
Howdy!
With ROOTDRIVE behaving more like DRIVEWITHMOSTSPACE, what's the
recommended approach to installing to the Windows volume?
I noticed there is environmental variable support... $(.) is evaluated
at compile time, !(.) at link... but what about at runtime? I found an
old post suggesting the use of [%...] but this syntax doesn't appear to
work (anymore?). An example would be immensely appreciated.
- Rafael
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