Your whole FTP problem smacks of the "they" (passive voice) syndrome and you are solving the wrong problem IMO. I would refuse to "fix" it by chunking my MSI into 5 CABs. Instead I would use a tool like WinZip of PackageForTheWeb ( InstallShield ) to create a self extracting EXE that handles the problem of chunking your MSI into multiple files and delivering a complete MSI on the other end.
That said, InstallShield has really nice media support including a Custom option where you can specify how many KB for each chunk. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me ----- Original Message ---- From: Nick Davey <n...@idocket.com> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thu, September 30, 2010 7:18:00 AM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Continuing questions about WiX I will check out the links later today from work. I will also see if there is a newer .msm for crystal reports that will work with (/not break) my project. If there is, I will use it instead. As for switching FTP servers, that I cannot do, as it is the company wide FTP and I do not have a choice in what I can use. I find it somewhat ironic that the vs2005 setup bundler can split up the setup files but WiX cannot. I can only hope that such functionality is some kind of custom implementation. I know that in this day and age such issues really are not a concern, but the added flexibility for WiX would be most excellent. Thanks for the help. Nick n...@idocket.com On 9/30/2010 5:25 AM, Dominik Guder wrote: > Hi, > > 1) the first warning could be ignored safely. This only means that > ProgramFile is defined twice, once in your file and in crystal reports msm. > (This is common for most MSMs) > > The other errors are from an "old" crystal msm. There was a similar thread > in Februar. See >http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Using-EnsureTable-to-resolve-ICE03-error-results-in-LGHT0094-error-td4515067.html >l > Using<EnsureTable> to resolve ICE03 error and >http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Re-Using-EnsureTable-to-resolve-ICE03-error-td4535736.html >l > Re: Using<EnsureTable> to resolve ICE03 error or another similar post at >http://stackoverflow.com/questions/461907/trying-to-use-ensuretable-in-wix-to-fix-validation-errors >s > stackoverflow.com > > 2) You might consider to use another FTP hosting provider or server > software. 10MB is not very much and should be handled easyly. Maybe it's not > the ftp host, but your firewall. > Another way could be to use either RAR or Zip/7z to split your MSI after it > was built into 10MB chunks > > hth Dominik > > > Nick Davey wrote: >> Ok, so the size of the installer was sorted quite nicely. Thanks to >> all who helped. >> >> Now on to two more issues I can't seem to get around. >> >> 1) I am trying to include Crystal Reports in my installer, as my >> software depends on it. >> >> Using this .wxs: >> >> The first warning is what I think is the cause of all these errors, but >> I am not sure. >> >> 2) Is there a way to make WiX split up .cab files into chunks of a >> certain size? (This goes back to my 10MB FTP limit from my first >> posting.) When I package Crystal Reports, even with high compression it >> is stil 10MB. I know using the "setup project" that comes with vs2005 I >> can have it split up the .cab files into arbitrarily sized chunks. I am >> really hoping that WiX can do the same. >> >> I am sure there is an option for the second question I have, but I have >> not been able to find it as of yet. Thanks for any help you can offer. >> >> Nick >> n...@idocket.com >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
