Re: Need IE6 ...

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Hi Robert,

Recently, Robert Aldwinckle <robald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted:

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

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.
[...]
Once you do the download you would have to do a SneakerNet file
transfer to the target machine.

Well, it's not quite that bad... the machine is on my network, just
isolated from the internet fork. ;-)

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.

This appears to be exactly the issue.

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. ; )

Are you suggesting that putting ie6setup.exe on a CD and using the switch
worked, or that you installed from some other source of ie6 on a CD?

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.

The problem I'm trying to solve is very similar... an application requires
ie6 or higher as its UI, but doesn't supply it on their installation disc.
It seems odd to me that MS doesn't provide an easy way to obtain and
install the program without going through all this.

Thanks,

Neil


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