Something wrong with Windows 98 installation??

[Sigbjorn Finne]

There really seems to have been a conscious change
over at MS regarding this, all downloads are now
offered via the 'MSDN download center', so I suggest
the link to the Windows Installer runtime is changed to:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/code/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/001/455/msdnco
mpositedoc.xml#top

for Win9x (Win95, Win98, WinME) systems, and

http://msdn.microsoft.com/code/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/001/456/msdnco
mpositedoc.xml

for NT4 (Service Pack 3 and later.)

hth
--sigbjorn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sigbjorn Finne" <sigbjorn_finne@hotmail.com>
To: <jrood@mediaone.net>
Cc: "Hugs Bugs" <hugs-bugs@haskell.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 00:43
Subject: Re: Something wrong with Windows 98 installation??


>
> 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
>
>
>