Subject: RE: Help with OpenOffice CD's
From: James Zuelow (jamesz@ideafamilies.org)
Date: Fri Jun 07 2002 - 11:46:03 AKDT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]On Behalf Of
> Mike Barsalou
>
> Is anyone familiar with how to create a CD that uses autorun? I think
> people would be way more impressed if you put in the CD and it autostarted
> the OpenOffice 1.0 CD install for Windows.
>
> I supposed it would work for Linux as well.
>
I did this for the Juneau-LUG OpenOffice 1.0 CDs.
We set up our CD's like this:
Root
|- Linux (the untarred Linux install files)
|- Windows (the unzipped Windows install files)
| |- setup.exe
| |- OO.ico (I extracted the setup.exe icon from the file & saved it as a
file)
|- Source (the source tarball)
So the autorun.inf file looks like this:
[autorun]
OPEN=Windows/setup.exe
ICON=Windows/OO.ico
A Windows machine with auto-insert notification enabled will run the Windows
installer when you pop the disk in.
Linux users are on their own, as the installer won't run from a read-only
file system (they have to copy the files to hard disk & run setup from
there). I suppose you could write a script that would copy the files to
/temp & automatically run the installer from there, but you'd have to check
for disk space first.
Cheers,
James
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