akz28 said:
Speaking of DVD's....
Does anyone know of a way to put all the RealFlight CD's together on one DVD for an easy installation. I havent really tried so I dont know what is involved in doing it.
I am betting that RealFlight, plus Expansion Packs 1-5 could all fit on one DVD. Not sure about EP6 though.
I t would be very convienient for someone like me that re-installs my O/S often (MS Technet Subscriber)
Yes, there is a trick that I often use....
Create a new top level folder... Call it C:\Realflght\ ( the name does not matter, but it must not have any spaces ).
Now create the following hiearchy.
C:\Realflight\Disk1
C:\Realflight\Disk2
C:\Realflight\Disk3
C:\Realflight\Disk4
etc. one folder for each CD.
( you can do this for each add-on too ).
Copy the contents of each CD into the respective folder.
Burn to DVD.
Run the installer from DISK1 and it should automatically find the other CD's w/o prompting you!
The reason this tends to work is that the MSI installers have hard coded paths for
Disk1, Disk2, Disk3.
These are normally used by the developers to test out their installers.
In some cases you can also modify the SETUP.INI file the installer uses if the above fails.
Note: it does not ALWAYS work ( I have not tested G4 ), but it tends to work for most programs.