Re: .NET 1.0 Service Pack 3

I had the same issue and somehow resolved it after visiting a couple of
newsgroups and through my own experiments. I am pasting the contents of one
of my posts that I posted a few days back in this newsgroup. Regarding the
update successfully installing on windows 2000; the problem is not with the
update but with sp2 which you must have installed before trying to upgrade
..net.......Here is my post: -

After encountering an update problem relating to both versions of Microsoft
..net framework, I happened to visit windows update newsgroup and dotnet
newsgroup and found every other person was having this problem. Incidentally
this problem had happened with them after they had installed xp sp2. After a
lot of browsing on Google and Microsoft knowledge base articles, I found the
only solution to the problem was uninstalling both versions of .net and
reinstalling them again. Interestingly sp2 had done enough damage to not
allow repair of these programs. Now uninstall was another bigger problem,
but
thanks to the following knowledge base articles: -

1) Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 320112 --- For removing Microsoft
..NET Framework 1.0.3705
2) Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 824643 --- For removing Microsoft
..NET Framework 1.1

And then I got stuck on using Msizap.exe utility, which wanted me to
download Microsoft Windows Installer Software Development Kit (SDK). I
accordingly went to the site for the download but found out that it was a
pretty big job as it included other compulsory downloads. I failed after
numerous tries to download as the site didn't allow using any download
managers and using dial-up for huge downloads is definitely a problem. And
then I searched for Msizap.exe utility on the net after I found out that sp2
supported this tool. I found it here: -

Referrer
http://www.google.com.pk/search?q=ca...zap.exe+&hl=en

I then used it separately for both the versions of .net (as you can also
find different commands for both versions in the above referred knowledge
base articles)

A reboot and again the installation failed (I was attempting install
from the newly downloaded redistributables)

And then I attempted a repair from the run command also mentioned in
these knowledge base articles, after which, interestingly enough, the
installs (both) succeeded.

Another visit to the windows update site followed and the updates
completed successfully. I am happy that I am out of this quagmire but I
wonder how many other problems sp2 will unfold in future.

For those who are prompted for the location of netfx.msi after trying to
install .net, they can extract it from dotnetfx.exe and then browse to that
location. To do this, download dotnetfx.exe or locate it on your local hard
drive or a CD. Then, from a cmd prompt run the following: c:\dotnetfx.exe
/t:c:\temp /c. You can substitute any folder you want for the "c:\temp"
parameter. This will extract netfx.msi to c:\temp if dotnetfx.exe resides in
c:\

I hope this helps solve the problem of all those who have failed to
update their .nets.


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"eesofgraham" <> wrote in message
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> Just so you know you are not alone with this problem - I have exactly the
> same issues. I hope someone knows what to do. Interestingly the same
> update
> on Windows 2000 worked ok.
>
> "jvjenkins13" wrote:
>
>> Everytime on every XP machine in my domain, I cannot install .NET 1.0
>> Service
>> Pack 3, whether from Windows Update, or manually. It doesn't matter if it
>> has
>> SP2 or not. The error everytime is that it can't find the "netfix.msi"
>> package. Has anyone else seen this issue? I can't find any information
>> about
>> the "netfix.msi" package, nor anyone else who has had this issue. Any
>> help
>> would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks!