on-line install with prerequisites

[pfitom]

I'm still learning the tool and am working with the 30 day trial.

I have a project that has two builds, a CD install and another targeted to a web install. The project has a couple of prerequisites which are large in size. The CD version creates a single exe with everything in it and works great. The web version I have set up to one CAB per feature on the media tab. On the bootstrapper tab, if I leave install files outside then it creates separate setup.exe and setup.ini which have to be together for the install to work. If I include install files in the exe then it packages the prerequisites into the exe which is extremely large and not needed by many users.

How can I have a single exe (as opposed to exe and ini) but with the prerequesites separate?

Thanks,
Tom

[GabrielBarbu]

Hi Tom,

For the web based install, you can set the prerequisites to be downloaded from a URL from the "Edit Prerequisite" dialog. You can then keep the "Include install files in EXE" option for the bootstrapper without having your prerequisites included.
Let me know how this works for you.

Best regards,
Gabriel

[pfitom]

That did it, thanks!