Sometime around back when we transported software on small stone tablets, i used a software, Wise, something, to create nifty little installers from pre-exsisting content. You told it to make a snapshot of your system, install things, and make a new snapshot, and make an installer that did "that".
Like, install a game, it's updates, DirectX, and so on, and then get a smaller install package since the overwritten stuff wouldn't be there, and a single package, rather then a bunch. It made life easy, if you were running the same installs over and over.
Now, i need something similar. But i have no idea what I'm looking for. With my googly eyes i spotted WISE Install Maker, which apparently got bought by Symantec, and later, abandoned as a product.
Most ideas is at this point, welcome.
What i really want to do, is try and make a new installer from a Transmission 2.93 for windows, that ignores windows version, so i can try Transmission 2.93 on Windows Home Server v1, since i suspect it's only the installer preventing it from installing, and that it would run just fine, if the registry keys are in place, and the DLL's are registered. (I'm basing that on wishful thinking, and the fact that i doubt they have switched API's without stepping up the major version number, but i could be way of base. Anyhow, it's an interesting problem, and i thought i'd see if i could find a solution. The system has 2.82 running on it, which works just fine. Again, wishful thinking. The outcome could be anything.) So i need to create a installer that doesn't use Windows Installer Service, or, at least works with whatever old version Windows Home Server v1 uses, which i suppose is what ever Windows Server 2003 was updated to use, before Microsoft abandoned it... Any workaround would probably work, except "install a different OS" since the system is a headless server, with a HP concocted PXE boot that only accepts their WHS v1 image, or boots WHS v1 of the drives after it's installed. And while a Atom D510 hardly is a monster machine, it's more then able to run torrents.
It's my understanding that talking about torrenting is permitted by the forum rules, just not talking about piracy, so, please, lets refrain from that.
Like, install a game, it's updates, DirectX, and so on, and then get a smaller install package since the overwritten stuff wouldn't be there, and a single package, rather then a bunch. It made life easy, if you were running the same installs over and over.
Now, i need something similar. But i have no idea what I'm looking for. With my googly eyes i spotted WISE Install Maker, which apparently got bought by Symantec, and later, abandoned as a product.
Most ideas is at this point, welcome.
What i really want to do, is try and make a new installer from a Transmission 2.93 for windows, that ignores windows version, so i can try Transmission 2.93 on Windows Home Server v1, since i suspect it's only the installer preventing it from installing, and that it would run just fine, if the registry keys are in place, and the DLL's are registered. (I'm basing that on wishful thinking, and the fact that i doubt they have switched API's without stepping up the major version number, but i could be way of base. Anyhow, it's an interesting problem, and i thought i'd see if i could find a solution. The system has 2.82 running on it, which works just fine. Again, wishful thinking. The outcome could be anything.) So i need to create a installer that doesn't use Windows Installer Service, or, at least works with whatever old version Windows Home Server v1 uses, which i suppose is what ever Windows Server 2003 was updated to use, before Microsoft abandoned it... Any workaround would probably work, except "install a different OS" since the system is a headless server, with a HP concocted PXE boot that only accepts their WHS v1 image, or boots WHS v1 of the drives after it's installed. And while a Atom D510 hardly is a monster machine, it's more then able to run torrents.
It's my understanding that talking about torrenting is permitted by the forum rules, just not talking about piracy, so, please, lets refrain from that.
