[104] in DeathTongue Changes
Re: MS Office and General Install Detail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aidan Low)
Tue Nov 17 19:01:30 1998
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:00:06 -0500
To: David Wang <d_wang@MIT.EDU>, licks@MIT.EDU
From: Aidan Low <aidan@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19981117181913.02247464@po9.mit.edu>
In my experience, doing a install in each partition to the same location is
a Really Bad Idea (tm). The registries of the two OSes can get
inconsistent quickly if you upgrade the program on either, which may cause
problems.
I'd recommend installing all NT4 stuff on C: and all NT5 stuff on D:.
Anyway,
Aidan
At 06:19 PM 11/17/98 -0500, David Wang wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I just joined in on this email alias, so please don't flame me if I do
>something horrible. I'd like to participate more actively; I just don't
>know what to do. Thoughts of "where is Deathtongue" comes to mind...
>because I don't know where this machine is.
>
>That said... here's an additional insidious detail with Installs
>
>>Software that relies on the registry should be installed twice. Once
>>under each version of the OS. But the destination should be the same for
>>both installations to conserve disk space.
>>
>>Microsoft authored software relies heavily on the registry. :(
>
>
>When you install via the copy-over method, there's a detail to consider
>(particularly with MS products and Office has a nasty problem with this).
>
>In short, during Setup there are .STF files which get over-written (in the
>relative Office\Setup directory), and running uninstall and any future
>additions/removals successfully relies on having the right STF file for the
>right OS.
>
>Best solution is to save a NT4 and NT5 copy separately (by renaming the
>.STF file after each install to .NT4 and .NT5, respectively) and do a
>little renaming before modifying a setup.
>
>Worse case scenario I can think of is to install something under NT4, then
>do an overwrite-install on NT5, and in the future blow NT5 away because
>it's corrupted, and later try to change the install settings under NT4. It
>just won't work, and you'll have to reinstall on NT4.
>
>It's a real pain, I agree... but MS just does not understand why anyone
>would want to run two of their OSes at the same time and install identical
>software. :-P Go figure...
>
>--David
>
>
