Re: Need IE6 ...

"Neil Gould" <neil@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.


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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