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Thursday, June 27, 2013
Having problem installing a piece of
software on your system is frustrating. Do you want to find out how to install
IIS on Windows XP SP2 without actually having the SP2 CD?
The problem I experienced with while
installing IIS:
I tried to install Internet
Information Service (IIS) on my Windows XP Service Pack 2. The setup failed and
kept asking for Windows XP SP2 CD. I only had Windows XP SP1 CD and the Service
Pack 2 Service Pack 2 installation package.
I tried to find an existing solution
on the Internet using Google. I read and attempted many solutions including a
complicated one from Microsoft Support (support.microsoft.com/?kbid=894351) and
some simple solutions "Installing IIS after Service Pack 2". None of
those solutions I found actually worked, or the instruction was too complicated
to follow
Finally I had to solve by myself.
Here is what I did: I had unpacked the SP2 installation file using WinRar a
while ago and compiled a CD image file from it. I mounted this CD image onto a
virtual CD. I install and use this Virtual CD to supply the missing files which
are somewhere inside the I386 folder.
Here are the steps you can follow to
install IIS without having a Windows XP SP2 CD:
- Download the XP SP2 installation file (softwarepatch.com/windows/xpsp2.html) if you do not already have.
- Extract the content of the file into a folder using WinRar (win-rar.com) or similar compression software;
- Start installing IIS using standard procedure (Control Panel > Add and Remove Programs > Windows Components)
- When it prompts for source folder, browse for the I386 folder that you extracted earlier
- When it prompts for missing files, browse I386 and its sub-folders for them.
The solution was easier than it
look. You do not need to riskily alter the Windows security folder. You do not
need to spend time merging SP2 into Windows XP CD. All you need to do is to use
what were already there.
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