Office 2000 install on Windows 2000: Help

jdavis71

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Help :confused:

I am setting up a basic machine for imaging purposes and I am having a problem with Office 2000.

I installed Windows 2000 onto a cleanly formatted machine and I installed service pack 2 from the service pack 2 cd that is shipped with Windows 2000 Pro. Now when I try to install any flavor of Office 2000 (Pro or Premium), about half way through it asks for the windows service pack 2 cd. I have inserted the service pack 2 cd and it says that it is the wrong cd. I patched an I386 folder with the sp2 update and burned it to a cd and that doesn't work.

Do I have to install office prior to updating Windows with service pack 2?

-J
 

DAM

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weird, and yeah i would put in office2k before sp2, btw, check the MS download center for any known patches to this issue, it might be a known problem (but ive never heard of it)






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jdavis71

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I found the answer. Here is the way that I solved the problem: I slipstreamed i386 with sp2, and placed it on the root of c:. Then you have to change your install source and your service pack source (maybe one would have done it too) in the registry under: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\setup. Microsoft says that if your source is for example c:\cabs\i386, your registry should be c:\cabs. My setup source files are located on c:\i386, so my registry should be sourche=c:\