what would scooby do

How can it be done (easily) ??

It's a single page that I just want to load up in insertion of cd..

rik1471

Have a file AUTORUN.INF on the root of the CD.

Paste the following into the file:

[AutoRun]
open=index.html

Not sure if it will actually work, but you can try it

Otherwise you can download a package here which will do it. 30 day evaluation

what would scooby do

I'll give it a shot Rik... ta

what would scooby do

Hmm, says d:\ is an invalid win32 application - maybe we have to tel it what to use to open index file ??

I'm gonna try and find a cd that does this already and take a peak..

rik1471

http://www.adew.co.uk/autostart_cd/autostart_html.asp

what would scooby do

yup that works

MooseRacer

Haven't checked that link, but surely putting iexplore "d:\Index.htm" in your autorun.inf works just as well?

rik1471

I think it tries running it as an executable. Which doesn't work.

MooseRacer

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what's req'd, but you certainly can fire up iexplore with the location of a webpage enclosed in quotes as a parameter and it works fine

rik1471

What if they don't have IE installed?

MooseRacer

Then they're buggered m8

what would scooby do

Yah I tried putting in iexplore.exe index.htm but it didn't work - maybe I had the syntax wrong.. I'll have a look again tomorrow.

IWatkins

Try:

[autorun]
OPEN=Thing to Open
ICON=Icon to use (if required)

So for example, for an HTML page without an icon your Autorun.inf will contain this:

[autorun]
OPEN=index.html

If the HTML document is not in the root of the CD then use the relative path:

[autorun]
OPEN=/Setup/index.html

You do not put in the drive letter, e.g. d: becauase some peoples drives are not d:.

Also, just run the HTML document without an application listed. This way, whatever browser the user uses will start up and open your document. Of course, this relies on the type .html being registered as a document type (most systems will be), although you might be safer using a .htm extension instead.

YMMV etc. as I'm doing this from memory.

Cheers

Ian