Installing IIS (or attempting to - requires SP1 CD)

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Steven Taylor

I'm trying to install IIS from the 'Add Windows Components'. It
first asks for the Windows XP CD, which I insert.

Then it states that some files are on the Windows XP SP1 CD, and to
insert that CD. I haven't got that CD, all updates have been via the
automatic update.

How do I get around this, at the moment I can't install IIS because of
it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Steven Taylor
Melbourne, Australia.
 
You can try this as it might work. First download SP1 from here
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/servicepacks/sp1/sp1lang.asp
Use Winzip (www.winzip.com) to Extract the SP1 download to a to a folder on
your root drive. For example to
C:\XPSP1 (or something similar)

Create a System Restore Point as you are about to modify the registry. If
you don't know how to create a System Restore Point go to Start->Help and
Support->Pick a task->click System Restore and follow the wizard.

Go to Start->Run and type REGEDIT to open the registry editor.

Expand the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup

In the right hand pane double click "ServicePackSourcePath" key and modify
the value to c:\xpsp1


You might have to reboot.
 
Thanks Harry.

It seemed to work.

Steve.


Harry Ohrn said:
You can try this as it might work. First download SP1 from here
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/servicepacks/sp1/sp1lang.asp
Use Winzip (www.winzip.com) to Extract the SP1 download to a to a folder on
your root drive. For example to
C:\XPSP1 (or something similar)

Create a System Restore Point as you are about to modify the registry. If
you don't know how to create a System Restore Point go to Start->Help and
Support->Pick a task->click System Restore and follow the wizard.

Go to Start->Run and type REGEDIT to open the registry editor.

Expand the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup

In the right hand pane double click "ServicePackSourcePath" key and modify
the value to c:\xpsp1


You might have to reboot.


--

Harry Ohrn - MS MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


Steven Taylor said:
I'm trying to install IIS from the 'Add Windows Components'. It
first asks for the Windows XP CD, which I insert.

Then it states that some files are on the Windows XP SP1 CD, and to
insert that CD. I haven't got that CD, all updates have been via the
automatic update.

How do I get around this, at the moment I can't install IIS because of
it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Steven Taylor
Melbourne, Australia.
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Steven said:
I'm trying to install IIS from the 'Add Windows Components'. It
first asks for the Windows XP CD, which I insert.

Then it states that some files are on the Windows XP SP1 CD, and to
insert that CD. I haven't got that CD, all updates have been via the
automatic update.

How do I get around this, at the moment I can't install IIS because of
it.
Click to expand...

This is a very awkward catch 22 that you can run into if you use the
Express install of SP1. Because IIS was not installed earlier, it did
not get the SP1 updates of these files that you now need. A trick that
just *might* work is that SP1 should have made a folder
Windows\ServicepackSourceFiles to contain the files from SP1. If you
can identify which files are being asked for and then get them from the
old CD to that, it Might do it. Use MSConfig.exe and the Expand files
command to expand from the i386 folder of the CD, where the files have
the last character of the extension replaced by a _ - so expand
whatever.DL_ to whatever.DLL

Other than that all I can suggest is getting a CD of SP1 - it has been
on several magazine cover disks, and copies can be ordered direct from
Microsoft in US ($10) or UK (free for UK). What you can find in
Australia I'm not sure
 
Thanks Alex for your advice.

I ended up downloading the SP1 file and extracting it to c:\xpsp1
directory.

Installation wasn't as smooth as I thought it should have been, upon
installing ISS I had to search for each file that it was requesting
and navigate to it in order to proceed. Anyway, it got through. I
searched for the directory you mentioned, couldn't locate it.

I now have other problems. I have installed 'Intersystems Cache'
database and have DreamweaverMX installed. I subsequently found out
that in order use 'Dreamweaver' in conjunction with 'Cache' my system
had to be a web server, hence the installing of ISS.

Pointing my browser to http://localhost certainly works. It opens
the
default welcome at 'localstart.asp'. Also opens is a so-called help
browser page for WindowsXP Pro re - ISS, not that it's much help to me
at
the moment.

What is not occuring, is right-clicking 'My Computer', 'Manage'. I
can't
find any reference to 'Internet Information Services' option. No
reference
to it via the control panel, Administrative Tools.

The help browser also refers to the ISS Snap-in. I can't see any
reference
to it. I'm assuming that this Snap-in is part and parcel of the
Internet
Information Services option.


Any advice or suggestions are very welcome.

Steven Taylor
Melbourne, Australia.
 
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