Robert
Sun Mar 23 21:03:35 PDT 2008
"Neil Gould" <neil@terratu.com> wrote in message
news:uI3P3sOjIHA.1184@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi Robert,
>
> Thanks for your response and attempt to help me sort this out. After my
> last message, I discovered that I mistyped part of the command line
> (serves me right for trying it pre-coffee at 5:00AM). However, that was
> only a minor matter that didn't resolve my initial problem.
>
> Recently, Robert Aldwinckle <robald@techemail.com> posted:
> [...]
>> For example, if you ended up on this article
>>
>> <title>Download-only installation of Internet Explorer 6.0, Internet
>> Explorer 5.5,
>> or Internet Explorer 5.1 in Windows XP or in Windows 2000</title>
>>
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257249/EN-US/
>>
>> I can well imagine that you might misinterpret either the instructions
>> or the use of the meta characters in its examples.
>>
>> FWIW here is how I last described the minimum procedure.
>>
>> <paste>
>> Actually what it is sometimes shown and makes more sense as
>> is that the #E is just a placeholder for a target directory.
>>
>> In fact, what works, when the target directory is the same as the
>> directory for ie6setup.exe (which may be otherwise empty) is:
>>
>> ie6setup /c:"ie6wzd /d:1"
>>
> [...]
>
> Both the full command line and your shortcut give the same result as
> running the program with no command line switches. After the wizard boots
> and the OS is selected, it tries to download files from the internet,
> which of course fails with a proxy server error because, as I mentioned in
> my original plea, that machine has no access to the internet.
We are assuming that you have a machine which does connect to the Internet
and that is where you are trying these commands. The /D:1 switch allows
you to pick an IE6sp1 for an OS which is different from the one you are
using.
Once you do the download you would have to do a SneakerNet file transfer
to the target machine.
However, this reminds me that even after you do all that you may still have
a problem with the lack of connectivity because the act of installing may still
appear to need a connection in order to validate the downloaded files.
The one time when I did this I got around that problem by setting Connections
settings to Never dial and that meant that at most a LAN connection would
be tried. Even then since it saw a modem it tried to prompt me to dial out
but I disallowed that and the install finally worked. Since then I have always
installed from a CD--much less trouble that way. ; )
>
> I was hoping that there was the equivalent to service pack updates or a
> stand-alone installer for ie6 that would avoid this problem.
Many packages still provide an IE6sp1 to be installed optionally
as a way to support their documentation. You could try getting it
that way if you can't get it any other way.
HTH
Robert
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