As far as distributing 'CD Images' goes, there is already a VERY efficient way of doing that out there. BitTorrent. 2 CD's worth of ISO seeded at a few of the major torrent sites would do the trick. All you would need to do would be to download and burn them. You can include the installer and all the other required data. The only fly-in-the-ointment aspect is the patches... you can't put them up on a CD etc.

Perhaps the installer could be 'tuned' to find the patch files on the HD of the user, and re-locate it to a standard place. This should enable it to auto-manage the ini file swapping. You could even build a front-end 'launcher' that allowed you to swap par-files in and out for themed installs.


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