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Help!  How to handle LAPTOPS !


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n10ct

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Posted 24 April 2002 - 13:34

Hello.

Has anyone come across this situation.
You have laptops that are installed on site and have MSI files installed on them from network locations,  you then have the laptops go offsite and an application might require a "repair"  the laptop will then require a network location to repair from.

Windows installer creates a local CACHE "rip" of your original MSI in C:\winnt\installer  this has no files in it (cabs)
so it still requires a external sourcelist entry to fix a problem.

You can manually copy your original MSI file back to the cache directory and rename it to the DC15603.MSI or what ever your current install is called.  and then change the windows installer current user registry settings for that application in order to get it to repair locally.

There seems to be NO way to automate the ability of Windows Installer to CACHE a local copy of the complete MSI for it to use to repair from.

The only way that really seems possible is to run a script that copies your msi file locally then runs it locally on the laptop, that would then populate the sourcelist properly.

I would prefer to do everything in one MSI file and NO script, but this doesnt seem possible.  does anyone have any clue on a way that would work best to enable a local caching of an MSI file and make it so that it is used as the default repair location?

Cheers.

JWPP

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Posted 26 April 2002 - 13:03

have you thought about creating a new MSI which copies down the intended MSI to the PC. Then create a custom action to install the intended MSI from a location on the PC....this way it's in one MSI and you get it placed locally on the Laptop without the need to run any scripts.


John Penford

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Posted 19 July 2002 - 16:58

there are also several utilities, MSISources is one, that allow you to change the MSI registry database to tell the product to look for the sources in a different location.