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  • Re: Command Line Switch for Older MSIE Installation

    From usinet.ehaskel@ehaskel@attglobal.net to comp.os.ms-windows.misc on Sunday, July 13, 2003 10:40:49
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    philo wrote:
    "E. R. Haskell" <ehaskel@attglobal.net> wrote in message news:3f115aba_2@news1.prserv.net...

    [snipped by ed for brevity]

    if you are using the 16bit version of IE5 there is a bug in the installer
    if you use large amounts of ram

    use the option setup /f:16 and it should work




    First off, thanks so much for the quick response. Thank-you kindly,
    sir; I'll give it a try.

    Have a nice weekend!

    Ed

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  • From E. R. Haskell@ehaskel@attglobal.net to comp.os.ms-windows.misc on Sunday, July 13, 2003 08:09:30
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

    I'm trying to set up a system (just for grits & shiggles) running good
    ol' DOS and WFW 3.11. Well, one of the things I want o install is MSIE
    4.01 or 5.0. The machine has half a gig of RAM and the MSIE installer
    can't quite figure it out and tells me that I really should get more
    than 4 MB of RAM for it to do it's thing.

    I did this same thing a couple of years ago on a machine with 256 MB RAM
    and someone was kind enough to give me a command line switch to use when
    I was installing MSIE.

    I didn't write the switch down and neither Google nor the MS site could provide me with anything useful.

    Does anyone out there know of this command line switch that will allow
    MSIE 4.01 or 5.0 to install on machines with more RAM than MSIE knows
    what to do with?

    TIA

    Ed

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  • From philo@philo@plazaearth.com to comp.os.ms-windows.misc on Sunday, July 13, 2003 10:29:22
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc


    "E. R. Haskell" <ehaskel@attglobal.net> wrote in message news:3f115aba_2@news1.prserv.net...
    I'm trying to set up a system (just for grits & shiggles) running good
    ol' DOS and WFW 3.11. Well, one of the things I want o install is MSIE
    4.01 or 5.0. The machine has half a gig of RAM and the MSIE installer
    can't quite figure it out and tells me that I really should get more
    than 4 MB of RAM for it to do it's thing.

    I did this same thing a couple of years ago on a machine with 256 MB RAM
    and someone was kind enough to give me a command line switch to use when
    I was installing MSIE.

    I didn't write the switch down and neither Google nor the MS site could provide me with anything useful.

    Does anyone out there know of this command line switch that will allow
    MSIE 4.01 or 5.0 to install on machines with more RAM than MSIE knows
    what to do with?

    TIA

    Ed


    if you are using the 16bit version of IE5 there is a bug in the installer
    if you use large amounts of ram

    use the option setup /f:16 and it should work


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  • From philo@philo@plazaearth.com to comp.os.ms-windows.misc on Sunday, July 13, 2003 12:19:05
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc


    [snipped by ed for brevity]

    if you are using the 16bit version of IE5 there is a bug in the
    installer
    if you use large amounts of ram

    use the option setup /f:16 and it should work




    First off, thanks so much for the quick response. Thank-you kindly,
    sir; I'll give it a try.

    Have a nice weekend!

    Ed


    hope it works,
    if you have problems you may want to ask on one of the microsoft.public
    win3x groups


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