Something wrong with Windows 98 installation??

[Sigbjorn Finne]

John Rood jrood@mediaone.net writes:
>
> That is, I clicked on the link in the following sentence of your
> documentation:
>
> In the unlikely event that your machine doesn't already have
> the Windows Installer engine/runtime installed, runtime
> redistributables can be found here. [<--link]
>
> However, this too was unsuccessful, leading to a missing page at
> Microsoft.
>
> How AM I supposed to set this thing up on my machine?

Hi,

you're on the right track, your machine doesn't seem to have the
installer runtime installed. The download page pointed to is the
right one, but either someone's temporarily messed things up
at MS, or the page is really being moved (and the KB and
other MS docs will be similarly updated, which sounds kind
of silly, but stranger things have happened..)

When pages & sites go AWOL all of a sudden, I normally turn
to Google's cache for help - you can get at a copy of the missing
page at

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsd
k/instmsi.htm+instmsi&hl=en

The binaries that this page points to, do seem to point the real goods.

hth,
--sigbjorn