Build - Advanced

Check this box to generate a ZAP file for each distribution package. A ZAP (Zero Administration Package) file is a text file containing rudimentary information about the accompanying Setup package. It is intended for Setup packages that do not use Windows Installer, and gives system administrators an opportunity to manage the Setup package in an automated fashion.

The ZAP file will be created as <ProjectFolder>\Config name\Installer name.zap, where .zap replaces the extension of the installer itself.

Check this box to generate a TWU (Tarma WebUpdate) update file for each distribution package. A TWU update file is a text file containing automatic update information for the current installer package. It is intended to be used in conjunction with Tarma WebUpdate.

The TWU update file will be created as <ProjectFolder>\Config name\Installer name.txt, where .txt replaces the extension of the installer itself.

Check this box to keep any intermediate files created during the build process; clear it to have them cleaned up. The intermediate files should not be distributed, but are useful for diagnostic purposes and testing.

The following table lists the intermediate files created during the build process (for a complete overview of all output files, see Build configuration):

Select the desired Setup stub set from the drop-down list. Each stub set contains a full complement of the InstallMate Setup stubs, but they differ as indicated in the following table.

Other stub sets are available for customized versions of InstallMate.

Select the desired compressor from the drop-down list. The following choices are available:

Select the desired disk spanning option from the drop-down list. Disk spanning is the process of breaking up the compressed installation archive into smaller parts of a specified maximum size each, for example to fit them on disks of that size. This option only has effect for the Loader + Archive Packaging option in the current build configuration; see Installer packaging for more information.

If disk spanning is used, then the parts of the installation archive are called Disk0001.tiz, Disk0002.tiz, etc. to indicate on which disk they should be distributed. (The Disk0001.tiz span should be included on the first disk, which is the same that contains the installer proper.)

Note that if you choose a very small span size (less than approximately 150 KB), then the total size of the first disk may be larger than the requested size, because it contains the Setup loader and stubs as well. However, for most realistic span sizes this is not an issue. The final archive part may be less than the maximum allowed span size, because it will only contain whatever remains at the end of the archive.

The following disk spanning choices are available:

Enter the amount of disk space to reserve on the first disk, in KB (1 KB = 1024 bytes). When building the installer, InstallMate will subtract this amount from the span size of the first span (only) and produce a correspondingly smaller first span. The second and subsequent spans will use the maximum allowed span size.

This option is intended to reserve space on the first disk if you want to include additional files over and beyond the installer, for example an Autorun program or a licensing file.

Tip: You do not have to allow for the room taken up by any files distributed in the plain file tree; the size of these files is taken into account automatically by InstallMate when it builds the installer. (For the purpose of this calculation, each plain file's size is rounded up to the next multiple of 4 KB to take the effects of the estimated disk block size into account, and another 4 KB is set aside for each folder in the plain file tree. Depending on the actual block size of the distribution media this calculation might be somewhat off, but is typically very close to the real disk space occupied by the plain file tree.)