Spanning

Lord_Nord · 25th April 2001, 08:38

NSIS is a really great tool but i'm missing one important feature.

I would like to span the installation to either costum sizes or predefined values such as diskette size (1,44 MB)

is their a posiblity to do this in the current version?

saivert · 25th April 2001, 09:49

Why bother with spanning. Floppy disks are out anyway, sure they will be used for minor copies/distribution to older computer without LS-FLOPPY drives and ZIP drives, but it isn't the big thing anymore, OK!
As I feel commit to provide help: Zip the entire NSIS installer executable with WinZip and then make a Spanned Self Extractor using WinZip Self-Extractor 2.2 BETA (Important: not the 2.2 non-BETA, it hasn't spanning) and make it run your installer when all disks are unzipped. Finito!

saivert · 25th April 2001, 09:51

Why bother with spanning. Floppy disks are out anyway, sure they will be used for minor copies/distribution to older computer without LS-FLOPPY drives and ZIP drives, but it isn't the big thing anymore, OK!
As I feel commit to provide help: Zip the entire NSIS installer executable with WinZip and then make a Spanned Self Extractor using WinZip Self-Extractor 2.2 BETA (Important: not the 2.2 non-BETA, it hasn't spanning) and make it run your installer when all disks are unzipped. Finito! Visit http://www.winzip.com to download it.

Edit: PS! Winzip.com may not have the BETA so try out their FTP instead: ftp://ftp.winzip.com

petersa · 25th April 2001, 11:21

I honestly can't remember the last time I used a floppy!

webspider84 · 25th April 2001, 20:00

NSIS was developed for Winzip, an Internet distubuted program, both nullsoft and this community have not seen any need to use impliment this function. But yes Winzip 8 will do all this for you if ... you pay em £10 for registration!!

mcgarrah · 26th April 2001, 13:21

Why would you ever build something bigger than
1.4MB? Anything you should want to do should be
done in less than 1MB.

Lord_Nord · 26th April 2001, 18:41

Why should i use any external programms such as winzip let the user extract the data, install the stuff and then manually delete the files especially if you don't need all files because you only selected 1 menuitem?

Anyway yesterday i made a script that built a 1500 mb installation. how to distribute it? Neither zip nor cd-writer can be used due to the noexistence of spanning.
And archives larger than 5 mb are not as exotic as you may think.

rainwater · 26th April 2001, 19:49

I don't think NSIS is designed to install 1.5 gigs. 99.999% of the users are not going to be creating archives that big. Since, it seems like you are creating the installer for yourself, why not just winzip or rar or span them. I don't think most installers create spanned archives anymore anyways.

c2R · 26th April 2001, 19:58

Thats as maybe, but since the floppy disk is standard on everyone's PC disk spanning would be a nice feature to have.

Fortionately at the moment none of my programs are over 700k...

petersa · 28th April 2001, 04:01

If you don't mind rewriting the script, you could use Inno Setup. It supports spanning for any size. Suitable for floppies, Zips and CDs.

Sure, the installation will be 100k bigger, but hey, you need to span anyway so there!

Damn, I'm good!

25th April 2001, 09:49	#2
saivert Banned Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Norway Posts: 927	Why bother!? Why bother with spanning. Floppy disks are out anyway, sure they will be used for minor copies/distribution to older computer without LS-FLOPPY drives and ZIP drives, but it isn't the big thing anymore, OK! As I feel commit to provide help: Zip the entire NSIS installer executable with WinZip and then make a Spanned Self Extractor using WinZip Self-Extractor 2.2 BETA (Important: not the 2.2 non-BETA, it hasn't spanning) and make it run your installer when all disks are unzipped. Finito!

25th April 2001, 09:51	#3
saivert Banned Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Norway Posts: 927	Why bother!? Why bother with spanning. Floppy disks are out anyway, sure they will be used for minor copies/distribution to older computer without LS-FLOPPY drives and ZIP drives, but it isn't the big thing anymore, OK! As I feel commit to provide help: Zip the entire NSIS installer executable with WinZip and then make a Spanned Self Extractor using WinZip Self-Extractor 2.2 BETA (Important: not the 2.2 non-BETA, it hasn't spanning) and make it run your installer when all disks are unzipped. Finito! Visit http://www.winzip.com to download it. Edit: PS! Winzip.com may not have the BETA so try out their FTP instead: ftp://ftp.winzip.com

26th April 2001, 19:58	#9
c2R Stereotype? (Forum King) Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Ware, England Posts: 3,511	Thats as maybe, but since the floppy disk is standard on everyone's PC disk spanning would be a nice feature to have. Fortionately at the moment none of my programs are over 700k... lights out for darker skies # forums.winamp.com boinc team # tms

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25th April 2001, 08:38	#1
Lord_Nord Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 3	NSIS is a really great tool but i'm missing one important feature. I would like to span the installation to either costum sizes or predefined values such as diskette size (1,44 MB) is their a posiblity to do this in the current version?

25th April 2001, 11:21	#4
petersa Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 207	I honestly can't remember the last time I used a floppy!

25th April 2001, 20:00	#5
webspider84 Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 7	NSIS was developed for Winzip, an Internet distubuted program, both nullsoft and this community have not seen any need to use impliment this function. But yes Winzip 8 will do all this for you if ... you pay em £10 for registration!!

26th April 2001, 13:21	#6
mcgarrah Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Raleigh NC USA Posts: 26	Why would you ever build something bigger than 1.4MB? Anything you should want to do should be done in less than 1MB.

26th April 2001, 18:41	#7
Lord_Nord Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 3	Why should i use any external programms such as winzip let the user extract the data, install the stuff and then manually delete the files especially if you don't need all files because you only selected 1 menuitem? Anyway yesterday i made a script that built a 1500 mb installation. how to distribute it? Neither zip nor cd-writer can be used due to the noexistence of spanning. And archives larger than 5 mb are not as exotic as you may think.

26th April 2001, 19:49	#8
rainwater Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2000 Posts: 396	I don't think NSIS is designed to install 1.5 gigs. 99.999% of the users are not going to be creating archives that big. Since, it seems like you are creating the installer for yourself, why not just winzip or rar or span them. I don't think most installers create spanned archives anymore anyways.

28th April 2001, 04:01	#10
petersa Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 207	If you don't mind rewriting the script, you could use Inno Setup. It supports spanning for any size. Suitable for floppies, Zips and CDs. Sure, the installation will be 100k bigger, but hey, you need to span anyway so there! Damn, I'm good!