[enternaL]

I've seen this CD image a guy made with Windows XP SP1A and Office 2003 (and other small utilities) together on one regular 700MB CD, called "Windows FD." I've been trying to recreate a similar CD, but I can't seem to get Office 2003 compressed enough to fit a 700MB CD. Office2k3 from the CD is about 400MB and WinXP is ~500MB. Does anyone know this guy may have accomplished this? The only way I can see is he deleted optional Office 2003 files.

[Datalore]

It's possible, just time consuming. It involves copying a bunch of file manually. Search MSFN in the Unattended forum, you'll find plenty of posts about it. To start, take a look at the MSFN Unattended Guide - Office 2003

[XtremeMaC]

maybe 900mb cd's

[enternaL]

I just looked at the CD again. Office 2003 is compressed as a SFX (self-executable) at 270MB, and 624MB uncompressed. I remember trying WinRAR to compress it, but I don't remember if it did that much. Maybe I should try some more options. Anyone have any clue? I never do

-edit-

I managed to compress it to 270MB. I don't know if I've been doing that the whole time and just checking the size of the office2k3 setup files AND the compressed office2k3. Ah well, it's all good

[ner]

Hi< can anyone help me out,

I have purchased Office XP, but its on 5 cd's i want to burn them onto a dvd for easy of installing/updating can anyone help??

[TeT_TaT]

hey
i have cd call
Office 2003 all 5 in 1
but its illigal
and i know how it was burn in 700 mb cd
but is it allow to talk

[ner]

@TeT_TaT

I am not looking for a ripped copy, i have purchased the cd set (£1700) and need to install onto 200 plus PC's so i was just looking for a way to put all cd's onto a dvd, should of check this before purchasing on CD' ..... it was cheaper that way..

Nick

[LiquidSage]

Good to hear some people actually buy software still....

You can search for the office 2k3 aio installer and follow their directions.
(It is ~2mb, basically just a setup launcher (AutoPlay Media Studio) made by the xBetas.com group for the contents of each cd. It may come with working keys already so you might want to look at it for reference only. It should be fairly difficult to find.

or

Copy each cd into it's own folder in your build folder, (don't foget to make sure to get the hidden files as well. ) and use UltraIso, cdimage, etc. to optimize the contents of the build folder. All 5 cd should fit on 1 cd.

Optional: Create a autorun that links to the installers in each folder. You can also pass the PIDKEY via cmd line (MSI style) to each installer, or use the ORK to make a fully/partial unattended install. Since there is room to spare, you might as well get the latest updates and office2k3 goodies like stock quotes add-in or Producer for PowerPoint 2003 as M$'s site.

[ner]

@LiquidSage

Cheers, thats great news...

[medhunter]

enternaL, on Mar 16 2004, 10:58 PM, said:

I just looked at the CD again.  Office 2003 is compressed as a SFX (self-executable) at 270MB, and 624MB uncompressed.  I remember trying WinRAR to compress it, but I don't remember if it did that much.  Maybe I should try some more options.  Anyone have any clue?  I never do

-edit-

I managed to compress it to 270MB.  I don't know if I've been doing that the whole time and just checking the size of the office2k3 setup files AND the compressed office2k3. Ah well, it's all good 

how did u sfx it like that?

[enternaL]

At the first screen, under the "General" tab, I used "Best" compression method. I used "Create SFX Archive" and "Create Solid Archive."

Under the "Advanced Tab," I clicked the "Compression" button and forced text compression, set the prediction order to "63" and memory to use to "128" and I disabled "Audio" and "True Color" compression. I also unchecked the 64-bit and delta compression at the bottom. And then I let it compress.

I managed to get it to 265MB from just playing around with different settings, 9MB less than Windows FD's Office2k3 SFX. But I've never used it yet in an actual installation.