Diablo2 to DVD / Multiple game CD to DVD

[BarryB]

Hmm...

I just dumped all 3 of my Diablo II CD's to a folder on my hd, dragged all the files from that folder into WinISO and saved an ISO image, mounted the ISO in Daemon Tools and ran the SETUP.EXE, selected FULL INSTALL and it installed without asking to insert any CD. Just needs CD2 in the drive to play!

Uninstalled and tried just a Single Player then a Multiplayer install, and again it didn't ask to insert any CD. Burned the files to a DVD+RW to test installing from a DVD drive and does not ask for any CD's after trying all 3 install options!

Are you copying the files to the root of the DVD?

Also, only copy the D2CHAR.MPQ and D2MUSIC.MPQ files from CD2/Play Disc and the D2VIDEO.MPQ file from CD3/Cinematics Disc to the DVD.

[Morglum007]

@TexN:

Try to load first the .txt file relative to Diablo 2. Then, files will appear as is, and not so confusing.

@BarryB:

By this i think he is trying to insert main .exe into .mpq, so installation is like original one, without exe replacing after all.

Morg.

[BarryB]

@Morglum007: I think he just wants to do what I've just done and install using any of the 3 install options without it asking for a CD. He doesn't need to muck about with the MPQ files as it installs with no modifications to any files.

The install.exe checks for files being in the root of the CD/DVD, that's the only criteria that matters, so don't put the files in a folder!

[TexN]

I'm trying to also do the expansion CD... with just the core d2 install files it works fine. i think it was when i tried to tie in the exp is when i got the problems. any ideas on that one? like the standard install, the exp also has the install and setup exe's. thx...

[reddragon105]

i've managed to get Diablo 2 working from DVD with no problem, simply dumped all files from the 3 CDs to one folder and burned to DVD, works with no problem

however im also trying to get Lord of Darkness on the same disk and am having problems. i've found out that basically the install menu will not run unless the files are in the root directory of the disk (ie D:\SETUP.EXE, D:\INSTALL.EXE, D:\SETUP.MPQ etc)

the same thing goes for Diablo 2 itself, so the problem is that i cant put both Diablo 2 and LOD in the root directory, as they both have 3 files with the same names (mentioned above).
nor can i put LOD in a separate directory, say for eg. D:\LOD because then i would have D:\LOD\SETUP.EXE, D:\LOD\INSTALL.EXE, D:\LOD\SETUP.MPQ, and the menu will not run as these files are not in the root directory

the error message im getting says it can not find a file, so its looking in the wrong place (D:\, when i want it to look in D:\LOD) so what i have to do is somehow find out where this location is stated/found and change it to look in the right place.... but i have no idea how, as Blizzard use their own install methods.

im up to speed on hex editing and have winmpq, and am searching through the files, but so far no luck, so any help would be appreciated
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