June 6, 200422 yr Dear Friends, I want to put lots of software on my Unattended Cd and the programs I wanna put are 1.5 GB apprx and the CD I have 700 MB , Is there and way that I can Compress these programs and put them on this CD ??ThxYazan
June 6, 200422 yr possibly, as with the case of MS Office, since the installer is mostly uncompressed, you can compress it further as an SFX file.
June 6, 200422 yr Also compress your drivers, this can save alot of space too!Use 7zip, with following settings:-archive type: 7z-self extractable (sfx)-compression : ultra (might take some time!)How to use?Add in your winnt.sif, under [GUIUnattended]DetachedProgram="Drivers.exe"Arguments="-y /q /r:n"
June 6, 200422 yr You can burn your cd as a mode 2 (need particular drivers) and eliminate some check codes gaining 100 MB.
June 6, 200422 yr Or you buy the Plextor Premium Drive and really burn 1,4 gig on one 700 mb disk. (But you can only read it on your own drive...)
June 6, 200422 yr You can burn your cd as a mode 2 (need particular drivers) and eliminate some check codes gaining 100 MB. plz explain!
June 6, 200422 yr Author Please Bâshrat the Sneaky can you explain more , I am a beginner in this Line.. Many thanx to all of you...Yazan
June 6, 200422 yr @ yazanaswad & Bâshrat the Sneakycheck this :http://www.divxland.org/mode2cd.htm orhttp://xcd.sourceforge.net/It tells it works only for audio/video streams but the gui I'm using let me burn every kind of files. I've never test it but you can try with a re-writable cd. There's only a problem: this mode needs some drivers to work and I'm not sure you can use it with a clean install.. It should work if you install your new O.S. on an O.S. that has the drivers to read CD-XA.
June 6, 200422 yr wow never knew about thisbut i wouldn't do it for the windows cd.. for movies it might be great...
June 7, 200422 yr 1) nLite (save 100-300mb +)2) Office Shrink (save 100mb +)3) Compress Drivers (save 50mb-200mb +)(or)4) do a 2CD install (dont have to save any space
June 7, 200422 yr i'm interested in the section about compressing the drivers i've never heard about that and search shows too many threads. anyone can explain it step by step or post the link to the original thread??
June 7, 200422 yr compress your "Drivers" folders and make it self extracting (with silent extract mode).. make it extract to %systemdrive%\Driverstest it to make sure your drivers get extracted to "%systemdrive%\Drivers" so your driver paths will still be "Drivers\001_chipset;Drivers\002_GART" etc etc...put the Drivers.exe in your $OEM$ folder and in winnt.sif, set DetachedProgram=Drivers.exe
June 7, 200422 yr @[bM]Crusher thanks for your help also i found the thread that specify some more things. for all like me u can find it at http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=12566&st=20
June 7, 200422 yr yeah it works good... i got my 167mb of drivers down to 32mb! add that on top of nLite and officeshrink, everything fits on one disk for me - xp pro sp2 rc1 ; dx9.0b ; mp9 ; office2k3 ; nero ultra ; pdvd5 ; clonecd ; clonedvd ; anydvd ; acroread ; cdex ; adaware ; lansearch ; winamp5 ; tweakui ; daemon3.46 ; isobuster ; k-lite mega ; winrar3.3 ; windows themes ; backgrounds ; boot screen ; 163mb worth of drivers == 684mb iso file
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