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Stanton/Wilmington Campus
Visual Basic 6 Install Notes

Lots of random notes about installing Visual Basic 6

Reference web sites

• Microsoft's Visual Basic Home Page
• My docs on installing VB 5 unattended

Observations

• First attempt failed miserably. It requires a reboot and worse, after a reboot, more user input choices. For example, it prompts you to install MSDN (perhaps if we do that first?). After sysdiff'ing it after the reboot and applying to a fresh machine, it failed to run later.
• Perhaps the VB Learning Edition would be better....
• After reboot, it "runonce"s via key "VS98_Setup_Wizard" c:\temp\vs60wiz.exe /runonce /reboot /location:D:. This seems to just run setup to prompt for installation of MSDN. Cool...
• Some other changes occur after reboot. Hopefully just applying the sysdiff and letting those changes kick in after our install reboot will be enough.
• yes, seems to have worked!

Installation sysdiff Package Creation

• sysdiff snap it
• Install, do not reboot
• sysdiff /diff it
• Save package

Installation script

1. Apply package
2. Remove runonce key (VS98_Setup_Wizard)
3. Install icons
4. (Ensure a second administrator reboot happens during script install)