Stix Posted August 12, 2003 Share Posted August 12, 2003 Want to install Norton Antivirus 2003 pro using only 25.7 megs of cd space ? Heres how :First read this post :http://www.MSFN.org/board/index.php?act=ST&f=70&t=7698OK , so now you have only the required folders: nav , support and virus def. For me these are 46.3 megs - your mileage might vary.Now fire up Winrar and add the folders to a new archive called NAV2003 , and select "best compression method" and "create SFX archive" in the general tab.Goto the advanced tab and click the SFX options button. In the "path to extract " field , enter %systemdrive%\install\nav2003 (you may need to alter the path to suit your own needs).Select "create in the current folder" and ensure "save and restore paths" is checked.In the Modes tab , select "hide start dialog" and "overwrite all files"In the Text and Icon tab , enter the text to display as the files are unpacked ( ie : Unpacking NAV2003 )Click OK to close the advanced SFX options window , and OK again to compress the files.Copy your new NAV2003.exe to your $OEM$\$1$\NAV2003 folder and add this to your .cmd batch:ECHO.ECHO Installing Norton Antivirus 2003 ProfessionalECHO Please wait...start /wait %systemdrive%\install\NAV2003\nav2003.exestart /wait %systemdrive%\install\NAV2003\NAV\NAV.msi /QBECHO.When you come to install Nav2003 , the files are first decompressed , and then install runs as usual This method also works well for any other files that are highly compressable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drewdatrip Posted August 12, 2003 Share Posted August 12, 2003 Do you know if thus will work with NAV Corp 8.1?Im gonna try it tonite....ill post back with my results. |Drew| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bachus Posted August 12, 2003 Share Posted August 12, 2003 Compressing the program into a sfx should work for anything, really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted August 12, 2003 Share Posted August 12, 2003 Do you know if thus will work with NAV Corp 8.1?Im gonna try it tonite....ill post back with my results. |Drew|Yeah you can, compressed NAV 8.1 from 34MB to 20MB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celzius Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 Also, if you choose the option "make solid archive" it'll go down to as low as 22.2 mb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crispy Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 Also, if you choose the option "make solid archive" it'll go down to as low as 22.2 mb. Winrar owns! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmcx9 Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 Anyone tried installing without the contents of the virus defs folder? possibly only one of the files is needed to allow install and this would save another chunk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiljaeden Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 Is there a way to stop NAV automatically from running after it's installed using this method? It might cause problems when applications and hotfixes are installed after it.By the way, thanks for the great method of compressing files to save space! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daze Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 i've made NAV2004 to 21.6Mb. You can delete some Files in your "support" dir too. For example IE and the MSI Installer files. Another hint is to extract all files too "temp" and call navsetup.exe /QB after extracting.greetsBTW: I close cfgwiz.exe with pskill.exe it works fine for me, as you don't need activation for the german version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 My way of doing it is to install AV applications last in the batch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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