Re: Need IE6 ...

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

I was hoping that there was the equivalent to service pack updates or a
stand-alone installer for ie6 that would avoid this problem.

Best,

Neil


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