Installing IIS at later date after Unattend client install?

[Gerry Hickman]

Hi,

Our client win2k machines are currently built using WinNT.exe and
unattend.txt over the network.

I needed to install IIS on one machine today for developers to use, and
it said it couldn't find the install path and prompted for the "Windows
2000 SP4 CD". I made sure I was connected to the network share with the
SP4 integrated distribution and then browsed to the i386 folder. It
installed a bunch of files, but then got stuck asking for _vti_inf.htm
(probably part of the Frontpage extensions). I did a search of the whole
SP4 distribution and could not find this file, so had to back out of the
installation!

There's two unrelated problems:

1. The o/s install path in my registry is pointing to D: instead of the
network share the o/s was originally installed from - this is fairly
common, but has never really caused me any problems.

2. The _vti_inf.htm file does not seem to exist in i386 or anywhere else
so I can't point the installer at it.

 

[Dennis Calhoun]

Hi,

Our client win2k machines are currently built using WinNT.exe and
unattend.txt over the network.

I needed to install IIS on one machine today for developers to use, and
it said it couldn't find the install path and prompted for the "Windows
2000 SP4 CD". I made sure I was connected to the network share with the
SP4 integrated distribution and then browsed to the i386 folder. It
installed a bunch of files, but then got stuck asking for _vti_inf.htm
(probably part of the Frontpage extensions). I did a search of the whole
SP4 distribution and could not find this file, so had to back out of the
installation!

There's two unrelated problems:

1. The o/s install path in my registry is pointing to D: instead of the
network share the o/s was originally installed from - this is fairly
common, but has never really caused me any problems.

2. The _vti_inf.htm file does not seem to exist in i386 or anywhere else
so I can't point the installer at it.

It might go without saying, but....

any *.htm file surely can't be an absolute necessity for installing
IIS. Surely you tried to "Skip" that file?