Possibly stupid hotfix question?

[[SuperhumaN][dhc]]

I’ve been working on getting the hotfixes to install and nothing seems to be working, (not without hitting ESC a dozen times anyway).

I found this doc and the method looks different from what I’ve seen, and was wondering if anyone has used a manual method like this.

1 Rename the hotfix package to a suitable 8.3 file name.

2 Make a temporary directory to hold the extracted contents of the hotfix package.

MD C:\TEMP

3 Extract the files from the hotfix package.

Qxxxxxx.EXE /x

4 Enter C:\TEMP for the name of the directory.

5 Open DOSNET.INF with Notepad and add this information to the file.

[OptionalSrcDirs]

svcpack

6 Delete the svpack.in_ and original file(s) that the hotfix is replacing.

7 Copy the replacement file from the temporary directory to the i386 folder.

8 Create a SVCPACK folder in \i386 dir.

9 Create a new \i386\SVCPACK.INF with this content.

[Version]

Signature = $Windows NT$

BuildNumber = 2600

MajorVersion = 5

MinorVersion = 1

[setupData]

CatalogSubDir = i386\svcpack

[ProductCatalogsToInstall]

sp1.cat

[setupHotfixesToRun]

Qxxxxxx.exe /q /n /z

10 Copy SP1.CAT from C:\TEMP\UPDATE to the \i386\SVCPACK folder.

11 Copy Qxxxxxx.EXE to the \i386\SVCPACK folder.

I guess the scripts compress the svcpack.inf so this is just the manual method.

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