windows 2000 deployment

[wpageiii]

Hi everyone,

I need help! I am distributing an application that needS to work across many O/S. I used the Package and Deployment wizard to create the setup program. This works fine on WINDOWS NT, WINDOWS 2000, however on WINDOWS 98, WINDOWS 95 the SETUP does not complete. It gets all the way to "setup is updating your system" But never seems to update.
I HAVE RUN DCOM 95 AND MDAC ON THE WIN95
AND DCOM 98 AND MDAC ON THE WIN98

I am developing on an WINDOWS 2000 professional w/VB 6 with SP 4

Well I have Windows 2000 professional installed and I dont seem to have many problems, although I have not develoed many Apps. This weekend I am going to develop a MP3 player -Shall tell you more then.

[kfaymon]

Instead of package and deployment wizard. Can get it from MS Visual Studio website, don't know exact location of download. Creates .msi installer files, which they claim are better.

[marex]

look this thread


http://forums.vb-world.net/showthrea...threadid=30821



Cheers Ray

[Rampante]

Hi guys,

Well, I have a quite similar problem. I read somewhere (on vb-world.net, I guess on the article about "setup") that w2k stores dates in a different format so the setup created with P&D Wizzard will result in endless reboots. It is true, I just finished a new customized setup1.exe and tested it on a fresh installation of W2K Pro. However! I knew I've installed some of my apps, on a lot of W2K systems and never had such problem. The only difference is that they were compiled last year. As a matter of facts I just installed one on the above mentioned system and it worked. Didn't install SP4 yet, maybe this helps. For one reason or another I am reluctant to idea of using MS Installer...

Help please? Thank you.

[kfaymon]

I had this problem, is known issue with P & D wizard. SP4 fixes this problem as does Visual Installer

[wpageiii]

Hey Again,

I am now using the Visual Studio Installer, It has solved the above installation problems. Anyways VSI seems to be a more robust tool but I have to play with it more to make a final decision. Thanks for the Help.


Bill