IIS After SP2?

[seismik]

Hi.

Fresh copy of XP SP1, installed it without IIS (wasn't really paying attention to it at that point). Then put on SP2, all good. Now I went to add IIS and it asks for my XP SP2 CD-ROM which I don't have... I've just got one for SP1. So I tell it to proceed anyway, and after two files it gets lost looking for adsutil.vbs which doesn't exist on the CD I have... so I end up cancelling the installation and have no IIS.

Any thoughts on how to get it back on there? I don't want to have to back out the entire SP2 install, add IIS, then put SP2 back on but it's kind of looking that way isn't it...?

seis

 

[mikecel79]

What you need to do is take a copy of SP2 and extract it to a folder. Then point the installation at the extracted version of SP2 and you should be all set.

 

[seismik]

Thanks Mike -- how do I extract the version of SP2? Is that something I can do from my current installation?

 

[flamingspinach]

IIRC, get the network install version of SP2 from Microsoft's website, then run it with the cmdline switch "-x <path>". Could be wrong though.

-fs

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: seismik
Hi.

Fresh copy of XP SP1, installed it without IIS (wasn't really paying attention to it at that point). Then put on SP2, all good. Now I went to add IIS and it asks for my XP SP2 CD-ROM which I don't have... I've just got one for SP1. So I tell it to proceed anyway, and after two files it gets lost looking for adsutil.vbs which doesn't exist on the CD I have... so I end up cancelling the installation and have no IIS.

Any thoughts on how to get it back on there? I don't want to have to back out the entire SP2 install, add IIS, then put SP2 back on but it's kind of looking that way isn't it...?

seis

Dude, I got the same sh!t going on over here! :| And let me tell you, it's pissing me off! I've pointed it to a slipstreamed copy of XP SP2, the original install of XP AND just the extracted files of SP2 (and yes, this was the network install of XP2, all 266MBs worth of it) . NOTHING! It still says it wants the Windows XP SP2 CD! WTF?! :|

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: flamingspinach
IIRC, get the network install version of SP2 from Microsoft's website, then run it with the cmdline switch "-x <path>". Could be wrong though.

-fs

I just use WinRAR and exctact all the content of SP2 to a specific directory.

 

[JackBurton]

Alright man, I MAY have a solution for you. This worked for me so give it a shot.

1. First, slipstream a copy of Windows XP and SP2 and copy it to a directory or just burn it to CD
2. Once that's done, go to run and type: esentutl /p %windir%\security\database\secedit.sdb. Once run, it will give you a warning message, just hit ok.
3. Now try and install IIS and when it asks for the Windows XP SP2 CD, either put in the CD you created or point it to the directory where your slipstreamed i386 directory is.

Now you might be able to get away with just pointing it to the exctracted SP2 directory, but I just had a slipstreamed XP SP2 CD on hand.

 

[seismik]

For the record I got it to work by downloading a copy of the SP2 network install, then uncompressed it all into a folder using WinRAR. Then I added IIS via the control panel, when it needed XP SP2 I pointed it at the new location -- needed some manual help to find one file adsutil.vbs I think, but that file is in there somehwere (with a .vb_ extension) so I manually picked that for it, then it wanted the original XP CD, so I gave it that -- just completed my installation successfully.

seis

Thanks all!

 

[flamingspinach]

Heh, glad to see it worked out for ya. Useful to know.

-fs