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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: Jeremy Farrell <jfarr...@pillardata.com> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> 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? Why do you assume that? > From: vivekanandan balaguru [mailto:vivb...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 7:49 PM > > We are trying to build a MSI package that includes multiple > files and total size of all files around 2.3 GB. > While building we get the error below, Whats the best > solution to fix this error? > > 2>light.exe(0,0): error LGHT0296: An error (E_FAIL) was returned > while adding files to a CAB file. This most commonly happens when > creating a CAB file 2 GB or larger. 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. > > thanks, > Vivek ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
