inserting cds on application building

[Pablop]

I have a few questions about building installer applications:

Is it normal to have to insert various LV cd's during application installer building? I'm just getting around to building some installers, and during the build it keeps asking for one CD or another. I swear it asked for Driver CD 3, then 2, then 1, then 3 again, the application install disc.

Also, it took forever to finish. I left the computer on Friday at 5:00 PM, after running for an hour or more. It was done when I came back Monday, and I can't find any files in the directories with time stamps later than 4:00PM Friday.

The size of the installer files, inclusive of all subdrectories, is over 900 MB. What's the best way to know if you need DAQmx in the installer? I've heard that really increases installer size.  NiScope has its own drivers (I'm using the PXI-5112 card), so maybe I don't need the DAQmx? Same for NiDMM and NiSwitch.


Thanks for your help.

[TCPlomp]

DAQmx has several layers of runtimes to include with your installer. Choose the one that fits.

What I normally do is copy all the CDs to a network share, install LabVIEW and drivers from there and leave the folder untouched. When creating an installer the LV installer builder will look at these network shares.

Also LabVIEW 8.5 comes with DVD containing the 3 driver disks

Ton

[Joseph_Loo]

You installed it correctly, but that is not how I install the program. You probably will have to uninstall labview and re-install it.

You need to copy the driver CD's into specific directories on your hard drive. When it is trying to install the drivers, you need to install it from the hard drive locations. Once you do this, the project buid will use the hard drive location to install the various drivers.

There is a problem in uninstalling labview below 8. You need to go into the registry and kill off all the Labview entries, otherwise, you can not do a clean install.