But here comes another issue.Įvery type of archive you make, has the downside that you must first extract it before you start the installation.

Create a bundle/exe with Advanced InstallerĪs you can see, the most common answer you can find is “create an archive” to save up space.

Create a zip file and extract it before the installation.

You can tackle this problem in multiple ways: Why? Some bits were lost, thus leading to countless retries. There is also a possibility that the package is downloaded, but at the end the hash will fail. By default, each distribution point retries to download the sources in case they fail. When you distribute a package on all the distribution points, network issues will occur, trust me. The issue is simple, large packages are a nightmare to deal with in an infrastructure for large organizations who have distribution points all over the world. I haven’t used this in a long while, since i haven’t dealt with large packages for some time.

Visual Studio, and it brought up some memories.

Microsoft Windows, WinZip, WinRAR, IZarc, Info-ZIP, 7-Zip, PeaZip, B1 Free Archiver, DotNetZip.Recently, I’ve came across Aaron’s response to a tweet regarding large packages like Autodesk, Adobe. Each file is stored separately, allowing different files in the same archive to be compressed using different methods. ZIP files are archives that store multiple files.ZIP allows contained files to be compressed using many different methods, as well as simply storing a file without compressing it. However, unlike sector-based formats (such as ISO or VHD), WIM is file-based: The fundamental unit of information in a WIM is a file.

Like other disk image formats, a WIM file contains a set of files and associated filesystem metadata. ZIP file format permits a number of compression algorithms, though DEFLATE is the most common. ZIP file may contain one or more files or directories that may have been compressed. ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression. It was developed by Microsoft to help deploy Windows Vista and subsequent versions of Windows operating system family, as well as Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs. The Windows Imaging Format (WIM) is a file-based disk image format.

Wim zip