Manually Creating Distribution Media

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There are several ways you can distribute your application — on floppy or compact discs, over a network, or on a Web site. As part of the deployment process, you must copy your packaged files onto the distribution media you plan to use.

Note   If you package and deploy your files using the Package and Deployment Wizard, these steps are not necessary because the wizard will create your disks, network location, or Internet component download distribution media for you automatically.

You can use any of the following methods when you manually create distribution media:

• If you plan to distribute on floppies, you must copy files onto the disks in a specific order. You must place the setup.exe and Setup.lst files onto the first disk, followed by all the files in the Bootstrap Files section of your project's Setup.lst file, then place other .cab files onto the remaining disks.
  
  
• To distribute on a network share, you simply copy your packaged files to the appropriate location, using Windows Explorer, a command prompt, or some other method.
  
  
• To distribute on CD, you simply copy your files to the CDs.
  
  
• To distribute on the Internet, you copy your Internet package to the appropriate Web site, using the Web Publishing Wizard, available in the ActiveX SDK.

For More Information   For more information on creating a Web publishing site using the Web Publishing Wizard, see "Internet Tools and Technologies" in the Internet Client SDK.