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Setting Up Media for Distribution
Setting Up Media for Distribution
Note
This page is fully enabled in a .WSI only. In an .MSI or .MST, you cannot add or delete.
The Media page lets you prepare an installation for distribution. Here, you specify
compression, the media’s size, holding directories, and how features and components
are organized on the media. You set media options per release.
If the installation spans more than one media, you can determine which files are placed
on which disk, or you can have it done for you.
To prepare an installation for distribution, perform these tasks:
! Add media items to apply different compression options to different files in
components or features. See Adding a Media Item on page 202.
During compile, the media items are placed in the destination directories in the order
in which they’re listed on the Media page. To rearrange the order, select a media item
and click Move Up or Move Down at the right of the Media page, or drag the media
item to a new position. The .MSI file is an exception. It is always placed in the first
destination directory, no matter where it appears in the list.
! Add destination directories. Destination directories are holding places for the
installation. They represent the disks, CDs, or server you use for distributing your
application. See Adding a Media Destination on page 204.
! Compile the installation.
! Copy the contents from the destination directories onto the media you will use for
distribution.
Note
At least one media item is required. If the Media page contains only one item, you cannot
delete it.
Adding a Media Item
Note
This page is fully enabled in a .WSI only. In an .MSI or .MST, you cannot add or delete.
You can add media items to apply different compression options to different files in
components or features.
Example:
Leave a Readme file and a tutorial uncompressed, compress application files inside the
.MSI file, and compress graphic files into external .CAB files. In this case, you would add
these media items:
! Uncompressed Readme
! Uncompressed Tutorial
! Compressed application files
! Compressed graphic files