Installation of .NET 3.5 SP1 takes 40 minutes

[G Narayanan]

Installation of .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 takes 40 minutes (vista/xp desktop).
Sounds like some microsoft bug on the surface. Can you please suggest a fix?

Thanks
G Narayanan

 

[Mark Salsbery [MVP]]

Installation of .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 takes 40 minutes (vista/xp
desktop).

Is that including the download time?

Mark

 

[G Narayanan]

Initial download was only less than a second. But how do I avoid installation
itself trying to download some more stuff indirectly - can you please give me
the steps?
All I am looking for is minimal runtime environment for 3.5 SP1, where can I
get the size-optimized .NET 3.5 SP1 runtime/redistributable/compact version?

Thanks much
G. Narayanan

 

[Family Tree Mike]

You have a post on the c# group where you say your app requires 3.5 sp1 to
run. You should distribute it with your app's installer. After all, you
are bundling the framework base version 3.5, right?

 

[G Narayanan]

Mike,

Can you please sketch me the full sequence I need to do in a fresh
deployment environment - assuming users (in deployment environment) might
have any previous .NET version (as low as 1.1) or no .NET at all ? I will
try this out manually and see that it gets installed in reasonable time (not
in 40 minutes but much less in time). Even if I bundle but app's installer is
going to take 40 minutes to install these .NET frameworks, it is not going to
help as 40 minutes (excluding download/upload) is not acceptable installation
time for our users.

Thanks much
G Narayanan

 

[Family Tree Mike]

Start here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k3bb4tfd.aspx
Then to deploy the 3.5 service pack, you probably will need a custom action,
so you should look at this artical:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d9k65z2d.aspx.

In your setup project, make sure you check the option to "download
prerequisites from the same location as my application." When you build a
CD, the framework will then be bundled with your MSI.