yazanaswad Posted June 6, 2004 Posted June 6, 2004 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
edmoncu Posted June 6, 2004 Posted June 6, 2004 possibly, as with the case of MS Office, since the installer is mostly uncompressed, you can compress it further as an SFX file.
Bâshrat the Sneaky Posted June 6, 2004 Posted June 6, 2004 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"
firstcircle Posted June 6, 2004 Posted June 6, 2004 You can burn your cd as a mode 2 (need particular drivers) and eliminate some check codes gaining 100 MB.
d0nut Posted June 6, 2004 Posted June 6, 2004 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...)
Bâshrat the Sneaky Posted June 6, 2004 Posted June 6, 2004 You can burn your cd as a mode 2 (need particular drivers) and eliminate some check codes gaining 100 MB. plz explain!
yazanaswad Posted June 6, 2004 Author Posted June 6, 2004 Please Bâshrat the Sneaky can you explain more , I am a beginner in this Line.. Many thanx to all of you...Yazan
firstcircle Posted June 6, 2004 Posted June 6, 2004 @ 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.
XtremeMaC Posted June 6, 2004 Posted June 6, 2004 wow never knew about thisbut i wouldn't do it for the windows cd.. for movies it might be great...
[BM]Crusher Posted June 7, 2004 Posted June 7, 2004 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
SiMoNsAyS Posted June 7, 2004 Posted June 7, 2004 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??
[BM]Crusher Posted June 7, 2004 Posted June 7, 2004 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
SiMoNsAyS Posted June 7, 2004 Posted June 7, 2004 @[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
[BM]Crusher Posted June 7, 2004 Posted June 7, 2004 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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