Vista 5 CDs to one DVD

Peteee

I have 5 CD ISO's of Windows Vista, is there any way I can burn these onto one DVD?

Is there any formatting requirements on the DVD that I need to be aware of, or does the CD format match the DVD format or is there any check that the CD version does (i.e. 1/4 way through the DVD isn't going to ask 'Please insert disc 2 of 5')

I've a MSDNAA Vista license (Business), so nothing shady going on

Stephen

Do they not provide a DVD ISO for download? I didn't think Vista was even available on CD at all.

Peteee

Well our bandwith cap for the house is a bit iffy at the moment, so I'd prefer if I didn't have to download 2.5 gigs of data

I didn't think Vista was available on CD's either but thats what i'm looking at!

8T8

It is probably feasible if the folder structure is no different from the DVD version.

Though making the disc boot-able is another matter I would imagine to goes much the same way as if you were slipstreaming SP2 into the XP CD and making it boot-able.

I have not see any guides yet though and well it may be more prudent to wait until next month when your not so near the cap to download the DVD ISO.

Peteee

CD1 was the general structure of the CD/DVD while CD's 2 - 5 were made up of install1-5.swm files (That go into the sources folder)

The directory structure goes as follows

-boot
-efi
-sources
-support
-upgrade
autorun.inf
bootmgr
setup.exe

Can anybody check in their sources folder that it goes install1-5.swm (with 1-5 obviously being different files) or is there one big install.swm file?

Attached is a screenshot

SickBoy

The source folder on my DVD has a 2.24gb file called INSTALL.WIM. It seems these files are image files and can be split into smaller files with a .wim extention using the imagex.exe tool located in the same folder.
I'm not sure if the small files can be converted back into 1 big image file but it's worth looking into...

H:\SOURCES>imagex

ImageX Tool for Windows
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1981-2005. All rights reserved.


IMAGEX [Flags] /Operation [Parameter List]

  Operation [ APPEND | APPLY   | CAPTURE | DELETE |
              DIR    | EXPORT  | INFO    | SPLIT  |
              MOUNT  | MOUNTRW | UNMOUNT ]

For help on a specific operation type:
  IMAGEX /Operation /?

Examples:
  IMAGEX /APPEND /?
  IMAGEX /APPLY /?
  IMAGEX /CAPTURE /?
  IMAGEX /DELETE /?
  IMAGEX /DIR /?
  IMAGEX /EXPORT /?
  IMAGEX /INFO /?
  IMAGEX /SPLIT /?
  IMAGEX /MOUNT /?
  IMAGEX /MOUNTRW /?
  IMAGEX /UNMOUNT /?

H:\SOURCES>

H:\SOURCES>imagex /split /?

ImageX Tool for Windows
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1981-2005. All rights reserved.


IMAGEX [FLAGS] /SPLIT image_file dest_file size

Splits an existing WIM file into multiple read-only split WIM (SWM) files.

  image_file - The path of the WIM file to split.
  dest_file - The path of the split file(s).
  size - The maximum size in megabytes (MB) for each created file.

Accepted FLAGS:

  /CHECK
  Enables WIM integrity checking. If not provided, existing checks are removed.

Example:
  imagex /split d:\imaging\data.wim d:\imaging\splitdata.swm 600

H:\SOURCES>

H:\SOURCES>imagex /export /?

ImageX Tool for Windows
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1981-2005. All rights reserved.


IMAGEX [FLAGS] /EXPORT src_file src_number | src_name dest_file dest_name

Exports a copy of the specified image to another WIM file.

  src_file - The path of the WIM file that contains the image to be copied.
  src_number - The number that identifies the image within the source WIM.
  src_name - The name that identifies the image within the source WIM.
  dest_file - The path of the WIM file that will receive the image copy.
  dest_name - The unique name for the image in the destination WIM.

Accepted FLAGS:

  /BOOT
  Marks a volume image as bootable. Available for Windows PE images only.

  /CHECK
  Enables WIM integrity checking. If not provided, existing checks are removed.

  /COMPRESS [maximum | fast | none]
  Specifies the type of compression used when exporting to a new WIM file.

  /REF splitwim2.swm
  Enables the reference of split WIM (SWM) files.

  splitwim2.swm - Path to additional split file(s). Wild cards are accepted.

Comments:
  If src_name is "*" then all images are exported to dest_file.

Example:
  imagex /export d:\imaging\data.wim 1 d:\imaging\newfile.wim "Exported Image"

H:\SOURCES>

Peteee

Okay, I've looked everywhere in the folder but there doesn't seem to be a imagex.exe anywhere.

From Googling, its a tool used to manage Windows images.

The 5 swm files (A split up wim file becomes swm files, as mentioned above) are 2.24 GB

If all this dosent work, I'm gonna buy some CD's tomorrow