How to make Stand ALONE CD?

Posted: 30 Aug 99 01:47:41 GMT -- by beto. Subject: How to make Stand ALONE CD?

I'm using ICD, and published my presentation as
a stand alone CD WITH AUTORUN ON,also I bought
Microsoft SDK license to redistribute DirectX 6.1.

As stated on page 32 on the Publishing manual I included
the following structure to the ROOT of the CD:
FOLDER called TOOLS which contains the following
\TOOLS\DIRECTX
\TOOLS\DCOM
\TOOLS\INDEO
\TOOLS\MPLAYER

At the same ROOT there is the FOLDER there is
\iplay\iplay.exe

1-If I insert the CDrom on a machine, which doesn't have all
components already installed, and HAS auto insertion notification ON NOTHING

HAPPENS...

2-On the same Machine if I tell the users to press
START/RUN/CDLETTER:\iplay\iplay.exe
IT states it needs to go to SCALA WEBSITE to gete the extra software.

3- WHERE than TOOLS folder goes? Do I need to unpack iplay.exe on the root
?
Place TOOLS UNDER \iplay\TOOLS ?

PLEASE I need a bit of help here how to make the CD perform all
required installation and run the presentation !

Coments for Scala wishlist...
THIS IS NOT A STANDALONE CD this is a nightmare for any non computer literate

user who will give up for good buyng our products from our
unworkable CDROM ! Big difference from MM200 where the CD is a standalone
MM
experience for anyone.

Beto Boton

Posted: 30 Aug 1999 11:20:11 -0400 -- by From: Peter Cherna. Subject: Re: How to make Stand ALONE CD?

[email hidden] writes:

> I'm using ICD, and published my presentation as
> a stand alone CD WITH AUTORUN ON

> 1-If I insert the CDrom on a machine, which doesn't have all
> components already installed, and HAS auto insertion notification ON NOTHING
> HAPPENS...

This is the primary problem that needs to be solved. Check your
CD-ROM. Does it have an autorun.inf file in it? That's how Windows
knows what to autoplay? What are its contents?

> 2-On the same Machine if I tell the users to press
> START/RUN/CDLETTER:\iplay\iplay.exe
> IT states it needs to go to SCALA WEBSITE to gete the extra software.

iplay is not the program to start. If you published your CD using the
project name "Example", there is a program called Example.exe that is
placed on the CD master. Example.exe will take care of doing all the
right things. You should find that the autorun.inf file should be
pointing at Example.exe.

> 3- WHERE than TOOLS folder goes? Do I need to unpack iplay.exe on the root
> ?

You do not need to unpack iplay.exe. Assuming your CD is drive letter
J:, it should look like this:

J:\autorun.inf
J:\Example.exe
J:\iplay\iplay.exe
J:\Tools\MPlayer\MPFULL.EXE
J:\Tools\DirectX\*

etc.

> THIS IS NOT A STANDALONE CD this is a nightmare for any non computer
> literate user who will give up for good buyng our products from our
> unworkable CDROM ! Big difference from MM200 where the CD is a
> standalone MM experience for anyone.

When the CD is set up properly, the installation experience for third
party components is the same you underwent when you installed
ICDesigner.

Let me know how it goes.

Peter

Posted: 30 Aug 99 23:08:57 GMT -- by beto. Subject: Re: How to make Stand ALONE CD?

OK
here are the contents of autorun.inf
[autorun]
icon = "Millenium.ico"
open = "NewMillenium.exe"
shell\install = &NewMillenium.exe
shell\install\command = NewMillenium.exe

here is how the cd is:
E:\Construction\iplay
E:\Construction\NewMillenium
E:\Construction\TOOLS
E:\Construction\autorun.inf
E:\Construction\copyright.txt
E:\Construction\Millenium.ico
E:\Construction\NewMillenium.bmp
E:\Construction\NewMillenium.exe
E:\Construction\NewMillenium.scb
As I understood I've done everything properly, and for some reason (machine
related)
it is not working...

I've checked autoinsertion for the cdrom and it was ok.
Peter Cherna <[email hidden]> wrote:
>[email hidden] writes:
>
>> I'm using ICD, and published my presentation as
>> a stand alone CD WITH AUTORUN ON
>
>> 1-If I insert the CDrom on a machine, which doesn't have all
>> components already installed, and HAS auto insertion notification
>ON NOTHING
>> HAPPENS...
>
>This is the primary problem that needs to be solved. Check your
>CD-ROM. Does it have an autorun.inf file in it? That's how Windows
>knows what to autoplay? What are its contents?
>
>> 2-On the same Machine if I tell the users to press
>> START/RUN/CDLETTER:\iplay\iplay.exe
>> IT states it needs to go to SCALA WEBSITE to gete the extra software.
>
>iplay is not the program to start. If you published your CD using
>the
>project name "Example", there is a program called Example.exe that
>is
>placed on the CD master. Example.exe will take care of doing all
>the
>right things. You should find that the autorun.inf file should
>be
>pointing at Example.exe.
>
>> 3- WHERE than TOOLS folder goes? Do I need to unpack iplay.exe
>on the root
>> ?
>
>You do not need to unpack iplay.exe. Assuming your CD is drive
>letter
>J:, it should look like this:
>
>J:\autorun.inf
>J:\Example.exe
>J:\iplay\iplay.exe
>J:\Tools\MPlayer\MPFULL.EXE
>J:\Tools\DirectX\*
>
>etc.
>
>> THIS IS NOT A STANDALONE CD this is a nightmare for any non computer
>> literate user who will give up for good buyng our products from
>our
>> unworkable CDROM ! Big difference from MM200 where the CD is a
>> standalone MM experience for anyone.
>
>When the CD is set up properly, the installation experience for
>third
>party components is the same you underwent when you installed
>ICDesigner.
>
>Let me know how it goes.
>
>Peter

Posted: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:23:35 -0400 -- by Erik Mattsson. Subject: Re: How to make Stand ALONE CD?

You need to reparent your directories so that construction doesn't exist.
So you would have the following...

E:\iplay
E:\NewMillenium
E:\TOOLS
E:\autorun.inf
E:\copyright.txt
E:\Millenium.ico
E:\NewMillenium.bmp
E:\NewMillenium.exe
E:\NewMillenium.scb

This should work for you.

Erik Mattsson

Scala, Inc.
www.scala.com
<[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
> OK
> here are the contents of autorun.inf
> [autorun]
> icon = "Millenium.ico"
> open = "NewMillenium.exe"
> shell\install = &NewMillenium.exe
> shell\install\command = NewMillenium.exe
>
> here is how the cd is:
> E:\Construction\iplay
> E:\Construction\NewMillenium
> E:\Construction\TOOLS
> E:\Construction\autorun.inf
> E:\Construction\copyright.txt
> E:\Construction\Millenium.ico
> E:\Construction\NewMillenium.bmp
> E:\Construction\NewMillenium.exe
> E:\Construction\NewMillenium.scb
> As I understood I've done everything properly, and for some reason
(machine
> related)
> it is not working...
>
> I've checked autoinsertion for the cdrom and it was ok.
> Peter Cherna <[email hidden]> wrote:
> >[email hidden] writes:
> >
> >> I'm using ICD, and published my presentation as
> >> a stand alone CD WITH AUTORUN ON
> >
> >> 1-If I insert the CDrom on a machine, which doesn't have all
> >> components already installed, and HAS auto insertion notification
> >ON NOTHING
> >> HAPPENS...
> >
> >This is the primary problem that needs to be solved. Check your
> >CD-ROM. Does it have an autorun.inf file in it? That's how Windows
> >knows what to autoplay? What are its contents?
> >
> >> 2-On the same Machine if I tell the users to press
> >> START/RUN/CDLETTER:\iplay\iplay.exe
> >> IT states it needs to go to SCALA WEBSITE to gete the extra software.
> >
> >iplay is not the program to start. If you published your CD using
> >the
> >project name "Example", there is a program called Example.exe that
> >is
> >placed on the CD master. Example.exe will take care of doing all
> >the
> >right things. You should find that the autorun.inf file should
> >be
> >pointing at Example.exe.
> >
> >> 3- WHERE than TOOLS folder goes? Do I need to unpack iplay.exe
> >on the root
> >> ?
> >
> >You do not need to unpack iplay.exe. Assuming your CD is drive
> >letter
> >J:, it should look like this:
> >
> >J:\autorun.inf
> >J:\Example.exe
> >J:\iplay\iplay.exe
> >J:\Tools\MPlayer\MPFULL.EXE
> >J:\Tools\DirectX\*
> >
> >etc.
> >
> >> THIS IS NOT A STANDALONE CD this is a nightmare for any non computer
> >> literate user who will give up for good buyng our products from
> >our
> >> unworkable CDROM ! Big difference from MM200 where the CD is a
> >> standalone MM experience for anyone.
> >
> >When the CD is set up properly, the installation experience for
> >third
> >party components is the same you underwent when you installed
> >ICDesigner.
> >
> >Let me know how it goes.
> >
> >Peter
>

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