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Adding a Dummy File to Packages that Don't Contain Files

Updated: 25 Sep 2007 | 2 comments
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Please find the procedure for adding a dummy file in the package to support admin installs \ CA admin installs for packages that do not contain any files.

Scenario: When an msi doesn't have any files or the media table is empty.

Problem: When this msi is admin installed, it will throw an error "2607 Media table not found or empty (required for installation of files)"

Solution: Add a dummy file to populate the media table, skip the error, and do a successful admin install.

  1. Add a property called VARADM with value Null
  2. Create a new component called AdmSupport
  3. Set the directory to Windows
  4. Set the condition on the component to VARADM="True"
  5. Add a text file to the component called AdmSupport.txt and "set as key"

This file won't be installed as it has a condition set as VARADM="true".

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Harsh Mokal's picture
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2007
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Removing unwanted tables from package?

Sure above mentioned method is definatly a valid approach.
But
is it not possible to remove tables from package which are not useful instead of adding some more redundant entries in to MSI?
I guess it is possible.

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2007
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Re: Removing unwanted tables from package?

Yes thats quite possible . If incase we want to keep the msi intact without removing any tables then we can use the above mentioned method. Thanks

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