Its the Feature Component mapping. Reduce the number of Components to succeed. You can also try to distrbute the Components across more Features but that only works to a certain degree.
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Chinnappa, Sarvesh [Audatex - Americas] < sarvesh.chinna...@audatex.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am facing an unusual problem with my installer. I will try explain in > detail, may be there is a workaround for this issue. > > 1. The installer is rather large >5GB with a lot of files, mostly data > files used by the application (a separate installer) > 2. I am using heat to harvest the files with this command > "$(WIX)bin\heat.exe" dir "$(DataFiles)" -cg DataFiles -gg -scom -sreg > -sfrag -srd -dr INSTALLLOCATION -var env.DataFiles -out > "$(ProjectDir)Fragments\FilesFragment.wxs" > 3. When installing everything is copied and all files are in the right > place. > > Issue: After copying the files when the MSI registers the product if fails > on some XP machines. Specifically it fails to write this registry key > HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products\GUID\Features\ProductFeature > because the data is greater than 1MB. The error reported during this is > unfortunately wrong, registry is full. So the MSI tries to increase the > registry size and tries to rewrite the value which fails and then it gives > up. Researching on this I found that older registry formats didn't allow > for values to be greater than 1MB. > > The questions are > > 1. I am guessing this is some sort of hash of the filenames. So how > exactly is this generated? Anyway to control it? > 2. Is there anyway to reduce the size of the entry so the install would > pass? > 3. Can I specify just the directory for the component and not include > all the files? Would that reduce the size of the registry entry to less > than 1MB. > > Thanks, > Sarvesh Chinnappa > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > PRIVILEGE AND CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > The information in this electronic mail (and any associated attachments) > is intended for the named recipient(s) only and may contain privileged and > confidential information. If you have received this message in error, you > are hereby notified that any use, disclosure, copying or alteration of this > message is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient(s), > please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the > original message. Thank you. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
