There is a provision in Windows Installer for supporting/generating a multiple disk installation, so that a large install could be shipped on floppy disks.
A bit of digging into the WiX / MSI archives will provide the info that you need - be glad you're shipping in 10MB chunks and not 1.44MB chunks ... Wendell On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Nick Davey <[email protected]> wrote: > I just started using WiX today, and so far I am liking it's potential. > But, like all new things, I have some questions about WiX. > > The major questions I have relate to how the installer is packaged. Due > to some restrictions on the FTP server I must use, I need to split the > installer file up into chunks no bigger than 10MB. 10MB is the maximum > file size we can transfer before things time out. Sad I know, but it is > what I am stuck with. > > So, question 1. The installer that is created is nearly 52MB in size. > The installed program is 48.5MB in size. Does WiX not compress the files > when packaging them? (I am able to compress the .cab files I have added > to the installer, but still not the installer.) Are there options that I > can put in the XML to decrease the size of the installer, or remove > unused libs/features from the final installer binary? > > Question 2. I told WiX to not embed the .cab into the installer, and it > barely made a dent in the size of the installer file. I also moved each > of the files that I need installed into various .cab files, with each > .cab file containing a different type/set of related files. The size of > the installer binary was still ~50MB. Should not the installer binary > size have dropped accordingly? > > I have more questions, but for now, those are my major points of > conflict. Once I get past those I'll ask my other questions if I still > have them. > > Nick > [email protected] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > accelerate your shift to cloud computing. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- "Some people come visit Europe and are really let down when they find out it's not like a credit-card commercial; others really get into meeting all the quirky people and careening along narrow mountain roads in rickety cabs driven by suicidal, gap-toothed Carpathians. I guess it's pretty obvious which one you are..." - Justin Crevier, May '01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
