Running Palm Desktop

[James Liggett]

Hi Stefan,
I've got good news. I got Palm Desktop to install. :) All you need to do
is setup IE first, with the instructions you gave me.  Then, some dirty
work:

1. Install native Windows Installer manually. To do this, install dcom98
first. Then run instmsia.exe. The install will complain, but it will
leave behind all the files you need in Windows\Installer\InstMsi0. Copy
all the files in there to Windows\system, and set msi.dll and
msiexec.exe to native.

2. Install Windows Script 5.6. You can download it from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0a8a18f6-249c-4a72-bfcf-fc6af26dc390&DisplayLang=en
Keep in mind that it's the English version though. To install it, set
setupapi to builtin and run the file.

3. Run Palm Desktop setup like normal, and it will install everything
you need. 

Of course, running palm desktop is a different story (there is a crash
in WinMM that stops it from running) but I'm pretty sure we can get
hotsync to work if we can figure out how to set up the serial ports.

James
 

On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 22:24 +0200, Stefan Leichter wrote:
> Am Montag, 4. Juli 2005 21:13 schrieb James Liggett:
> > I haven't installed anything, not even IE, because that won't install
> > (it hangs at around 80%, looking into it). But I did get Windows
> > installer to work, and Palm Desktop installer comes up, but it complains
> > about missing IE. So now I'm back at square one.
> >
> Installing ie6 is no big magic. I have an installer from a cd, _not_ an 
> installer that load most of the stuff from the ms web server.
> 
> 1. import the attached file into the registry using regedit.
> 2. replace the link c:\windows\system\regsvr32.exe with a copy of link target 
> owned by the user running the setup
> 3. run the setup
> 
> Hope this will work for you too.
> 
> Bye Stefan
> 
>