all in one CDs?

[MrPolite]

Just wondering what application do they use to make the all-in-one CDs? I understand the logic behind but I want to know the app that is commonly used to make them (ie, 8 flavors of windows in one CD:) )

[MrPolite]

hi how are you

[si_the_geek]

:ehh:

I've got no idea what you are talking about!

[plenderj]

Originally posted by MrPolite
(ie, 8 flavors of windows in one CD:) )

A single CD wouldn't be large enough for 8 versions of Windows.
It might take 2 or 3 I'd imagine though... possibly more if the data was RAR'd.

[MrPolite]

Originally posted by plenderj
A single CD wouldn't be large enough for 8 versions of Windows.
It might take 2 or 3 I'd imagine though... possibly more if the data was RAR'd. eeeh I have one with 7 versions :) 95a, 95b, 95c, 98, 98SE, 98 lite, ME

How it works is that all these different versions of windows have a lot of "chunks" of data that are the same. So the program looks for the similar data between all those files, and when it wants to make an ISO file for the CD, it will only copy the repetitive data once, while writing it 7 times in the file table. So basically there will be many places in the file table that point to the same location on the CD. It's fooling the computer. If you get the properties for the CD it's gonno tell you that it has like 1.7 GB or something like that on it. the ACTUAL written data is still around 700 MB, but the file system on the CD has around 1.7GB (in my example)....
eeh it's simple it just doesn't copy the "duplicate chunks of files" twice, it only copies them once, but writes them to the file system of the CD as many times as they appear.... hope it's clear:D

I was just looking for a program that would do it. There is one that I found, it's called CDImage ( I got the CDImage GUI version. ) Apparently the utility is written by microsoft though:confused:
anyways if anyone knows of any other programs, let me know!

[Richard_Branson]

Come on now Mr P - I'd hardly compare the latest versions of windows with the one's you mentioned - Those versions of windows were really small - I don't think Microsoft is thinking of sqeezing WinXP, Win2k and winMe all in one cd. But your explanation does make sense and I'd like to give it a go

The most I could do was sqeeze 95, 98 and Nt on one disc (without compressing them).

[MrPolite]

Originally posted by Richard_Branson
Come on now Mr P - I'd hardly compare the latest versions of windows with the one's you mentioned - Those versions of windows were really small - I don't think Microsoft is thinking of sqeezing WinXP, Win2k and winMe all in one cd. But your explanation does make sense and I'd like to give it a go

The most I could do was sqeeze 95, 98 and Nt on one disc (without compressing them). MICROSOFT? noo!!! microsoft doesnt make those CDs. People do:) (well at least as far as I know microsoft doesnt SELL anything like that)...

as for sqeezing everything on a CD, umm I dont think you could do it with all these:
windows 95
windows 95b
windows 95c
windows 98
windows 98se
windows 98 lite
windows me
explorer 5
maybe some other stuff

:D

+how about a 6-in-1 Windows 2003 CD?;)

[Richard_Branson]

in order to store all those OS on one system and use the reffering method to share files, you would have to know your stuff and working with the latest versions of windows might be a bit of a problem.

[MrPolite]

Originally posted by Richard_Branson
in order to store all those OS on one system and use the reffering method to share files, you would have to know your stuff and working with the latest versions of windows might be a bit of a problem. well the purpose isnt to put them all in one system... its just neat to carry one CD around instead of many

[Richard_Branson]

That's waht I meant - on one cd. You'd have to know your onions from your potatoes.

I wouldn't mind giving it a try - anybody want to join me?

[shahid]

we need a high capacity CD...

and a powerfull Zip software

[Richard_Branson]

I don't think having a high capacity cd would be your solution - It would be a cheap solution.

What you would have to do (as Mr P) has mentioned is actually go and look into the .cab and see which files are being used in more than one OS and redirect the Second OS to the First OS for it's setup files - meaning that you have to go into all the files in the multiple OS' and get the common ones.

Like I said previously "you'd have to know your onions from your potatoes".

[MrPolite]

you can get teh program from here http://www.tech-hints.com/2kos.html
click on English Beta 3

[Richard_Branson]

Takes the fun out of doing it yourself

[MrPolite]

Originally posted by Richard_Branson
Takes the fun out of doing it yourself well! if you want to write a program that does this, you probably have to know assembly (or not)... I dont know how the CD FAT works. I guess you have to know about that in order to manually modify the stuff on it. shouldnt be an easy task

[Richard_Branson]

It's not going to be easy - It might just turn out to be one to be one of my "life-long missions", Kind'a like restoring a 1967 bettle.

Mr. P - have you tried using those tools to see if they work?