Actually, for Office the media is just copied to the local machine, no "extraction" done. The feature is called "Local Installation Source". I called it "LocalCache" when I wrote it back in 2001-2002. Plans are to build a similar feature in to burn for WiX v3.5.
-----Original Message----- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 07:27 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How do setup bootstrappers avoid prompts for media when changing or repairing an existing installation I believe products like Microsoft Office extract the MSI to a folder and leave it on your system to allow for changes. Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited n...@x2systems.com <mailto:n...@x2systems.com> ________________________________ From: Andrew Lee [mailto:a...@solarflare.com] Sent: Thu 22/01/2009 13:06 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How do setup bootstrappers avoid prompts for media when changing or repairing an existing installation Eric Teutsch wrote: > All MSI packages are cached my Windows. See: C:\WINDOWS\Installer > Yes I realise that, but the cached package has all embedded files and cabinets stripped out to save space. So when adding a feature to an existing installation, the cached package does not include the needed files and the installer prompts for the path to the original media. I want to be able to avoid such prompts. Best regards, Andrew -- Andrew Lee Solarflare Communications mailto:a...@solarflare.com Block 2, Second floor, Westbrook Centre tel:+44-1223-518040 x5507 Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 1YG, UK fax:+44-1223-464225 http://www.solarflare.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
