Can't install additional components.

[Guest]

OK,

I've been out of the Windows World for a while... any help is appreciated.
thanks.

I'm an old Mac/Linux person, and I'm used to computers doing what I ask
them to and not being rude about it. So much for that! For reasons
defying explanation here, I am now running a desktop and a laptop with
Windows XP Pro. The desktop is the machine in question with SP2
"properly installed" per the little Update wizard genie.


The machine is an HP-Compaq, 2.53 ghz P4. I have the proper OS disk
provided by HP. It's an SP1 disk, and I have since downloaded and installed
SP2 via Windows Update.


My problem:


I want to install IIS. When I go to do this through the Control Panels
(or through the CD autostart menu) it starts to copy the files and then
says to install the cd b/c it can't find a file. I browse to that
folder and lo and behold, THERE'S THE FILE IT'S LOOKING FOR. It
doesn't care, apparently that's not the one it wants.


So I download Nlite (per some discussion board researd), and I
stripsleam in SP2 (the entire 266 MB download!). Thinking my problem
is solved, and I can install IIS and get on with my life, I make a cd.
It appears to work perfectly.


I ask it to install IIS (very nicely I might add)...


EXACT SAME PROBLEM.


OK, so what's the deal here? I've been out of the Microsoft loop for
too long to troubleshoot ignorance at this level. Can someone up to
date on this stuff give me a hand?


Thanks!!

 

[thecreator]

Hi Jamie,

You can't install IIS using your Windows XP Professional Edition SP1 CD,
when Service Pack 2 is installed. When is asks for the CD, use the Browse
option and browse to C:\WINDOWS\Driver Cache\i386 . Now it should install
fine.

Go Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs then click Add/Remove
Windows Components. Locate the program, you wish to add, and check it. Click
Next. When is asks for the CD, use the Browse option and browse to
C:\WINDOWS\Driver Cache\i386 . Now it should install fine.