Does anybody know how to install and run
Macromedia Dreamweaver 2006 8.0.2 on Windows 98SE!?
Is it generally possible to do?

My steps during installation are:






And that's all...

It seems some imports are missing, you might want to take a look at kernel update project thread.

Hi,LLXX thanx for trying...
I have installed KUP2.5 on my Windows98SE already...and try to start msi
installer from main package...


It seems that I need some NT based MSI installer on 98SE...
Probably is possible to run Dreamweaver on Win98SE with KUP2.5 as you say...
But how to install Dreamweaver into my system...
With totalcmd I can open MSI package and than is rock-n-roll...
I don't know anything about inside msi structure.
There must be some another method to install Dreamweaver ...

Microsoft has set up a big fench to climb for Windows 98 users by creating Windows Installer 3.0 that links directly to the NT-kernel.
I know some day the Kernel Update project will support Windows Installer 3.0 on Windows 98.

For now if you need to use Windows Installer 3.0 based applications installations on Windows 98 you have to use a Windows Installer extractor in some way.

Looks from the error dialogs you got, that Macromedia Dreamweaver 2006 8.0.2 requires MSI 3.0 or 3.1, which can be installed and used only on 2000/XP/2003:
http://www.mdgx.com/add.htm#MSI
I don't think KUP can help in this case.

But u can try 1 of these [free(ware)] tools:
- msix:
http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2006/04/07/571138.aspx
- lessmsi:
http://blogs.pingpoet.com/overflow/archive...1/16/14995.aspx
to extract files from MSI installers, and then try to install DW 2006 by regsvr32 DLLs +/- OCXs.

Might be a long shot, but it's worth the time if it works.
And this might apply to other apps/games that otherwise cannot install on 9x/ME.
And in certain cases might need [or not, depending on particular app/game] to install KUP.

HTH

Another MSI utility: http://www.qwerty-msi.com/

Thanks LLXX, added to the list:
http://www.mdgx.com/add.htm#MSI

I have just looked into MSI 3.1.
You can safely extract WindowsInstaller-KB893803-v2-x86.exe using WinRAR.
Msi.exe + msi.dll doesn't require too many new apis:

MSI.EXE
Kernel32:GetUserDefaultUILanguage -simple xor eax,eax ret should do the trick
Ntdll:NtQueryInformationProcess
advapi32:ConvertSidToStringSidW

but on the other hand... in update\langspecific\ there are update.exe and spuninst.exe which require 40+ new exports . Are those files needed for MSI 3.1 to work?


nicke85
If you wanted to fool MSI based installers you should add the following entry to C:\WINDOWS\KUPVER.INI:


However this doesn't seem to work for me:

Do you guys have any clues how to make MSI 2.0 work in NT mode ?

Thanx people for posts

My leader is WinMSI which is the best one because it's open source.
With WinMSI I can make or extract whichever msis without responsible knowledge about msi....Cool
MDGx if you want links for MSI unpackers get this one from sourceforge.net HERE

I can extract files from Macromedia_Dreamweaver_8.msi also with
Total Commander plugin for MSI which is available on www.totalcmd.net
but these archivers can't help me to install DW.

Check this information...!Maybe can help.When I extract main exe file then get a few new...

1. DW_Client_Installer.exe
2. english.pfw
3. Macromedia_Dreamweaver_8.msi
4. MsiX.exe
5. MsiX.pdb
6. WindowsInstaller-KB884016-v2-x86.exe

In Macromedia_Dreamweaver_8.msi is another install cab file,which is no good.
Contents of that cab is intermixed with install scripts to write registry references...
I'm bad lucky guys!!!

That doesn't look too good... it looks like it requires the NT service architecture which is going to be next-to-impossible to implement on 9x.

No download available [yet] for WinMSI...
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...group_id=124109

BTW:
WinMSI will require 2000/XP/2003.

Well,I told you MDGx that is an open source.
Scripts from that project work just fine on my comp,but u must know how
to work with open source...
I'll post you procedure if you need it,ok?