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[believer]

I just signed into the MSDN newsgroups today and I am still a bit lost – my first online newsgroup. Now, I am here via your link in mSDN, also tried to send Stefan a direct e-mail with no luck. here is the e-mail: Not really sure what I am doing. I am in desperate need of help with my access2.0 custom setup that is currently being distributed on 6 disks and it is my job to bring it over to 1 CD. From my research I understand that the SetupWizard for Access 2.0 dev only allows for distribution to floppies. My first goal is not to have to change the application but only to be able to distribute it as it is but on CD. Can you help? I sure hope so.

Thanking you in advance for your efforts.

[Stefan Krueger]

Hi,

how did you try to send me e-mail (which e-mail address, or thriugh this forum?) and how did it fail?

I'm not very familiar with the access 2 setup, but often you can copy the contents of all floppy disks to one folder on your CD.

[believer]

Hi there,

This is the e-mail address I used....

skrueger@newsgroups.nospam

As you have probably figured out I am in a real bind and keep getting stuck. I was hoping that the current app could be easily moved to be distributed from 6 disks to 1 cd. I think I am making progress because my error messages keep changing. This is long but I would really appreciate you looking at what I put up on the msdn. The last message is a setup message that indicates "the source media description line fields must be in quotes." The dilemna now is I have tried rewritting the source media section but am just unclear of the proper syntax. Here it is:

"Smartikat" wrote:

> Break them into different folders... e.g. Disk1, Disk2, Disk3, etc.
>
>
> "believer" <believer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AECCB74B-D72A-453B-BBBF-EA2E64B1293E@microsoft.com...
> > Expert brain matter needed----I am a solo-fledgling-quasi developer[and I
> > use that term loosely]...with that said I am desperately trying to change
> > a current Access2.0 custom runtime app from 6 floppy distribution disks to
> > 1 Cd-Rom.
> >
> > Thank you for responding - this is exciting - whew hew
however, remember - the fledgling that I am...
do you mean different folders on the cd - because what I tried was copying all the contents of the 6 install folders to the Cd and changed the setup.ini references : see below
[Source Media Descriptions]
"1", "Disk 1", "SETUP.EXE", "."
"2", "Disk 2", "MPTDATA.MD_", "..\Disk2"
"3", "Disk 3", "MSARN200.EX_", "..\Disk3"
"4", "Disk 4", "GRAPH5.EX_", "..\Disk4"
"5", "Disk 5", "MSAJT200.DL_", "..\Disk5"
"6", "Disk 6", "MSABC200.DL_", "..\Disk6"

to -> [Source Media Descriptions]
"1", "Disk 1", "SETUP.EXE", "."

and that's when i get the following setup message:
Tried to create an invalid path using G:\ and 'MPTDATA.MD_

this occurs once it is looking for "disk#2"


"believer" wrote:

confused on how to write the Source media Descriptions to frefer to folders. I keep getting a setup message: Source media description line fields must be quoted.
So I tried a lot of diferent wayssuch as: here i changed "Disk 1" -> "Disk1"
> [Source Media Descriptions]
> "1", "Disk1", "SETUP.EXE", "."
> "2", "Disk2", "MPTDATA.MD_", "..\Disk2"
> "3", "Disk3", "MSARN200.EX_", "..\Disk3"
> "4", "Disk4", "GRAPH5.EX_", "..\Disk4"
> "5", "Disk5", "MSAJT200.DL_", "..\Disk5"
> "6", "Disk6", "MSABC200.DL_", "..\Disk6"
recieved same setup message..then i tried..
> [Source Media Descriptions]
> "1", "Disk 1", "SETUP.EXE", "."
> "2", "Disk 2", "MPTDATA.MD_", "..\"Disk2"
> "3", "Disk 3", "MSARN200.EX_", "..\"Disk3"
> "4", "Disk 4", "GRAPH5.EX_", "..\"Disk4"
> "5", "Disk 5", "MSAJT200.DL_", "..\"Disk5"
> "6", "Disk 6", "MSABC200.DL_", "..\"Disk6"
recieved same setup message..then i tried..
> [Source Media Descriptions]
> "1", "Disk 1", "SETUP.EXE", "."
> "2", "Disk 2", "MPTDATA.MD_", "Disk2"
> "3", "Disk 3", "MSARN200.EX_", "Disk3"
> "4", "Disk 4", "GRAPH5.EX_", "Disk4"
> "5", "Disk 5", "MSAJT200.DL_", "Disk5"
> "6", "Disk 6", "MSABC200.DL_", "Disk6"

recieved same setup message..not sure what should be quoted?

[Stefan Krueger]

The From address in my newsgroup postings is invalid to prevent spam and viruses. The reply-to address is valid but mangled.

Again, I'm not familiar with the Access setup. But why not copy the contents of all floppy disks to the same folder (not Disk n sunfolders) on the CD, and chahing the media description to all use "." as path?

[believer]

Thank you for your input Stefan. I appreciate your time, still struggling though. have a great weekend! Leslie

[Glytzhkof]

Hi Leslie, I believe your question is too complicated and time consuming to answer on a board like this. I suggest you arrange a support agreement with Stefan instead (he has pay per incident support):
http://www.installsi...pport/start.htm

[Stefan Krueger]

Even then I may not be able to disscect the Access setup, or even modify it's behaviour. If Microsoft hasn't documented a way to achive this, it may simply be impossible. (Access 2 is rather old...)

That said, SageKey (http://www.sagekey.com) have some tools and templates for installing various Access runtime versions. Maybe they can help.

[Glytzhkof]

I remember I created a sample Wise setup that used to call Access 2 from VB code. I have never distributed Access 2 though. I am not sure what you want to do with this setup, or what your product is doing. Maybe if you provide some more detail someone will be able to suggest a simpler way of doing it.

[believer]

Thank you for all your input - through trial and error here's what works:
1.) add autorun to cd
2.) copy all files from the individual folders to the cd root directory[no folders]
3.) edit the setup.inf as follows:
from this:
[Source Media Descriptions]
"1", "Disk 1", "SETUP.EXE", "."
"2", "Disk 2", "MPTDATA.MD_", "..\Disk2"
"3", "Disk 3", "MPTDATA.M2_", "..\Disk3"
"4", "Disk 4", "GRAPH5.EX_", "..\Disk4"
"5", "Disk 5", "MSAJT200.DL_", "..\Disk5"
"6", "Disk 6", "MSARN200.EX_", "..\Disk6"


to this:
[Source Media Descriptions]
"1", "Disk 1", "SETUP.EXE", "."
"2", "Disk 2", "MPTDATA.MD_", "."
"3", "Disk 3", "MPTDATA.M2_", "."
"4", "Disk 4", "GRAPH5.EX_", "."
"5", "Disk 5", "MSAJT200.DL_", "."
"6", "Disk 6", "MSARN200.EX_", "."

and cd runs and installs program - no need to use 6 floppies any more - whew hew