let's say you have downloaded Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Flash from Adobe. Now you have 4 folders with these program's installers on your HD which you wanna burn to DVD. So far this has not been possible because … (see above).

Here's what to do:

1) in each folder, e.g. Dreamweaver CS5, open payloads/Setup.xml with a text editor. You see for example <Payload folder=”AdobeAIR1.5.3-mul”>Dreamweaver CS5</Payload>.

Batch-replace (“replace all”) instances of Dreamweaver CS5 with Dreamweaver CS5. In Windows stands for root = bottom level of the volume, in our case the DVD we burn to.

Save the Setup.xml (better make a backup of it before)

You follow the same path with all the other Adobe CS5 apps. which fit onto your DVD(s).

Open your favorite ISO app (UltraIso, PowerISO, MagicISO whatever). Import all the folders with the Adobe installers onto . Save as uncompressed ISO for quicker testing.

Mount,and test-run each installer. If all is fine, burn-baby-burn

So more or less you are saying by modifying the xml for setup and changing that line you can put multi installs on the same ISO or DVD. Its one of my problems I had with the whole hard coded path to the payloads folder.

<Payload folder=”AdobeAIR1.5.3-mul”>Dreamweaver CS5</Payload>

note the magical ..

I spent the last few hours battling with trying to create a DVD with several of the CS5 stand-alone installers, and so far everything has failed .. .

Making separate disk images of each of the CS5 programs works as per your instructions (whyever Adobe has incorporated a check into the installation routine, if the installation runs from HD or from a removable device, in the first place, deactivating dynamic path allocation and requiring a fixed path as you explained above).

As a site-note: in contrast to CS3, name of disk label does not matter with CS5, I have experimented with that.

For friends who I do not want to confront with neither disk images to mount nor several disks with single Adobe apps, I have been trying to simply burn several CS5 apps onto one DVD. Before, with CS4, that could be achieved by editing /Payloads/Setup.xml and deleting all Payloads folder titles in Setup.xml. THAT DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE WITH CS5!!

I have tried all sorts of path allocation mods in Setup.xml to no avail. Looking at the deviate Flash revealed that the deviant path 'Adobe Flash Professional CS5' is assigned all over the place in many files. In all other CS5 apps the standard path '/Adobe CS5' appears nowhere, it is hard-coded into some binary/ies.

Here my capabilities end! I think the easiest approach for burning several folders of Adobe CS5 apps onto DVD is to eradicate this stupid removable media check, because obviously the installation script is very well capable of finding the correct path to the installation files, no matter from where the Setup.exes are launched from if launched from HD. As somebody questions in another forum, is this an intentional method from Adobe to try and limit piracy? No matter what, it is very weird and annoying, not just to me.

Anyway, do you or anybody else have any clue where the “install from removable media check” can be deleted, or how else running CS5 installers from DVD without fixed folder structure can be achieved since only ONE app at a time can be in the root folder /Adobe CS5?

Thank you very much,
Lee

Can you give me some details to your setup?
How are you trying to install with media like CD/DVD/ISO?
As well can you get your setup program to the point where it keeps asking you for the media and run Process Monitor http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals... and set some filters. If you need some help setting filters let me know. You should set it to filter and show only setup.exe for Process Name. You can then clear the log so you get a fresh log. Go and click the continue button on the installer and you should get some log entries that will show you what the program is looking for. Let me know if you get that far. If you cannot figure out whats going on then you can save the file and let me know and I can email you my address and I can look at it for you to see where the problem is. The logs that show up in Process Monitor should tell you everything.