Windows 2000 to XP Migration?

[bofhrevenge2]

Hi all we are about to start making a move over to XP SP2 from Win2k, we have quite a few apps that we have made our own MSI's for using WinInstall and they all have WINNT as the system dir.

What problems am i likely to run into with the XP system dir being C:\WINDOWS?

Am i better off specifying the target system dir as WINNT for our XP boxes during setup?

Any advice appreciated.

Thanks.

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[LloydSev]

Well I would take two machines and test them.. test 1 with WINNT and one with WINDOWS and see what types of problems you come up with.

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[bofhrevenge2]

I have an XP box running with WINDOWS as the folder and so far so good, i was just seeing if anyone said NO DON'T DO IT.

Thanks fo your reply.

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[LloydSev]

no that's not an issue.. from your first post I was thinking your MSI's were setup to install to WINNT as the system dir, instead of the default %System% directory.

There isn't a problem with WINDOWS being the default directory, not at all, unless you have software which doesn't adapt.

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[bofhrevenge2]

Excellent i was hoping that would be the case. The reason i checked was that in the distribution folder where the msi resides there is a Program Files folder and a WINNT folder i wasn't sure what would happen. Like you say it seems to just look for %SYSTEMROOT% so it should be ok and seems to be ok so far.

I have a few test systems up and running now so i'll find any issues over the next few days.

Thanks.


"Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar." - Sigmund Freud