Slipstream SP1/Office XP

[TheReasonIFailed]

has anyone tried this?  i would like to do this due to the fact that i\'ve had to reformat my harddrive over 4 times in the past two weeks.... :-)

that\'s what happens when your unemployed and you get bored and you start \"experimenting\" on your computer

[TheReasonIFailed]

2. Whip out your Office XP CD and create a shortcut to the setup.exe
3. Edit that shortcut and add /a to the end like this setup.exe /a
4. Now use that shortcut to create an admin install point. (I used G:OfficeXP)
5. Now it will ask you for the key and what not during this process.
6. After creating the admin install point you should have a directory with 7 files and 1 directory called files
7. Now download Office XP SP1 - Admin version 40 MB (!)
8. Run the admin update and point it to a directory you can create. (I extracted my files to D:oxpsp1)
9. Now open up a command prompt and enter in this information (remember D:oxpsp1 is the SP1 files and G:OfficeXP is my admin install point. You might have to change these to match your computer) \"msiexec /p D:oxpsp1MAINSP1_Admin.msp /a G:OfficeXPPROPLUS.MSI SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE /qb /L* G:oxpsp1.log\"
10. Now you can burn the contents of the admin install directory to CD and then install Office XP SP1 with no problems

This should work fine for everyone having install problems.

[Big_Z]

This has been documented at my site for a long time....