Error code 2902

[ostelzner]

Hi!

Same problem with me:

http://www.advancedinstaller.com/forums ... light=2902

Any help would be appreciated!

[Ionut]

Hi,

In order to determine the cause of this problem, please provide an URL from where I could download the MSI package in question or send it to support at advancedinstaller dot com. Please also send the AIP file to our support email address.

Regards,
Ionut

[ostelzner]

Thanks for the quick response, but the MSI package is about 3.2Gb, so email is not an option. However, I will mail the AIP file to the support.

Thanks again!

[Ionut]

Hi,

The problem is caused by the limitations of the CAB file format:

* No file in a CAB archive can exceed 2GB
* Maximum size of all files in one folder (compressed) 2GB
* Maximum size of a CAB file (compressed) 2GB
* Maximum number of files in a single CAB 64K

These limits have been documented on the Windows Installer Team Blog.

You can avoid these limits by splitting your setup into multiple CABs (only in AdvInst Professional or Java) or by placing your application files on the distribution disk uncompressed.

Regards,
Denis

[ostelzner]

Thank you very much for this quick response!!!

[ostelzner]

Close examination of the project detects that none of the limitations of the CAB file format is violated.

Advanced Installer works fine with "Simple Project" type and:

Media->Archive installation files into CAB files -> Compress CAB files for smaller size tagged

Media->Archive installation files into CAB files -> Include CAB files into the MSI database untagged

The results are 3 CAB-files (2 about 878Mb, 1 with 253Mb) and one small (353Kb) MSI file.

So there should be some bug somewhere in Advanced Installer, I guess. Anyway, I am left with a working solution for now.

Thanks again!

[Ionut]

Hi,

Actually, this approach will not work, because for each CAB file one row must be added to the Media table. This is not supported in a Simple project.

The maximum size of a CAB file created by Advanced Installer is 900.000.000 bytes, because larger CAB files are very inefficient.

Regards,
Denis