brucer
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Prerequisite bandwidth savings tip

Tue Nov 23, 2004 1:59 am

Other users might be interested in this tip. Since we are
only installing from a web site, we didn't want to waste our
bandwidth with the .NET downloads. So we define a URL to
Microsoft's web site for the downloads.

Here are some of the prerequisites and urls that we have
defined (this is from our *.aip file):

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    ROW DisplayName=".NET Framework"
    SetupFileUrl="http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/a/c/aac39226-8825-44ce-90e3-bf8203e74006/dotnetfx.exe"
    Location="1" ExactSize="24265736" TargetOS="2"
    SearchType="0" SearchString="[SystemFolder]mscoree.dll"
    VerMin="1.1" VerMax="" ComLine="" Options="m"

    ROW DisplayName="Windows Installer for Windows 9x/Me"
    SetupFileUrl="http://download.microsoft.com/download/WindowsInstaller/Install/2.0/W9XMe/EN-US/InstMsiA.exe"
    Location="1" ExactSize="1709160" TargetOS="0"
    SearchType="0" SearchString="[SystemFolder]msi.dll"
    VerMin="2.0" VerMax="" ComLine="" Options=""/>

    ROW DisplayName="Windows Installer for Windows NT/2k/XP"
    SetupFileUrl="http://download.microsoft.com/download/WindowsInstaller/Install/2.0/NT45/EN-US/InstMsiW.exe"
    Location="1" ExactSize="1822848" TargetOS="1"
    SearchType="0" SearchString="[SystemFolder]msi.dll"
    VerMin="2.0" VerMax="" ComLine="" Options=""

Cata
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Tue Nov 23, 2004 10:27 am

Thanks!

Good tip.

The only drawback is that you don't have as much control over these URLs as you'd have over ones pointing to your own website. If they change, you're in trouble.

Always a tradeoff, I guess.. :-)

Cata
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