slipstream IE6 into w2k installation?

[crizp]

hi@all

i have successfully created a w2k bootable install cd with the sp2 slipstreamed into it from my original w2k install cd .

question:

does \'nybody know if there\'s a possibility to slipstream the IE6 (i guess it will work, if it works at all, only with IE6+ only) into the installation and not merely including it as a setup directory onto the cd?

unattended install of the IE6 is good enough, but slipstreaming it into w2k itself would be a lot nicer

anyone knows if this is possible or anybody done this before?

if yes, what kind/type of IE setup files do i need to perform this task?

greetz,
crizp

[The_Flames]

the problem that i have found is the ie6 setup files are compressed into cab files, while within the 2k cd they are all individual dl_ files, so with that it look like ms doesnt want people to be ably to slip strem ie6 into 2k.

the only way i can see it being possable is to extract all the files from the cab\'s then using some tool to compress them to the ??_ format that the cd uses http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

then the inf file that controles the setup needs to be updated to have all the correct settings.

I\'m only glad that nobody asked for direct x 8 to be slipstreamed as this has more problems of the same type as IE http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

now does anyone have a tol to compress files to the ms expand compatable format???

[crizp]

[indent]In reply to:

now does anyone have a tol to compress files to the ms expand compatable format???

[/indent] I have (surprisingly http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' /> found  the appropriate tool, but i don\'t think it\'ll be that easy to integrate IE6 into the W2K install without slipstreaming:

http://www.powerload.fsnet.co.uk/download/cab-sdk.exe

This is the Microsoft CAB Development Kit. It contains an executable \"makecab.exe\", which creates exactly those files that Micro$oft uses to compress their installations (\"something.dl_\", for example).

The Name (\"CAB Development Kit\") is a bit misleading, since you can either create whole CAB files, but those .dl_ or .ex_ files as well.

I have tested it with the \"expand.exe\" that comes with W2K and it works perfectly (= it expands the files created with makecab.exe properly). Though the original Kit (MS CAB Devel Kit) ist quite old, it seems M$ didn\'t change the specs of their compression format.

Dunno if that gave the whole thing a step forward; now we could decompress and re-compress the IE files, but the really hard work would be to set it all up properly into the W2K installation.

I think that while slipstreaming IE6 into W2K-install is not possible, the easier solution is to run an unattended install of it.

Still, if anyone knows a solution that is not off-the-planet (like adjusting every single line in every single setup file of Win 2K), i\'d be glad to know about it!

greetz,
crizp

PS:
The really nice thing about that CAB devel kit is that original Micro$oft source code is included (the source of the compression routine... hehh maybe i\'ll port this to Linux, could be useful possibly *fg*)

[Anonymous]

you can find the makecab.exe in winntsystem32
and i found it could not repack as small package as
microsoft done, but i found the tool archivexpert could
do it well,