Offline installation of the CE 6.0 R2 update

Submitted by Michel on May 2, 2008 - 04:23

The Microsoft installer for the CE 6.0 R2 update is a webinstaller. This means there is no way to download once - install often. Since the complete R2 update is over 1 GB of data it would be nice to be able to download the package to a folder from which you can install the R2 update offline. This is especially handy if you need to install the R2 update on multiple machines.

Another reason would be if you, like me, get errors during installation. When I tried to install the R2 update I got error messages like:

"Error 1335. The cabinet file 'MSI4E0.tmp' required for this installation is corrupt and cannot be used. This could indicate a network error, an error reading from the CD-ROM, or a problem with this package.".

So I dissected the MSI log files and was able to determine some downloaded cabinets were in fact corrupted. The corruption only seemed to occur when downloading using the Microsoft Installer package. When I manually downloaded the cabinets there was no corruption. By looking at the log files I could get a list of all required cabinet files. Since there are quite a few of those cabinets, and I figured this could be handy for more people, I wrote a tool that downloads the entire package from the Microsoft download server into a folder. Once the download is complete (1.1 GB) run the installer (Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2.msi) to install the R2 update. You don't need to be connected to the internet while installing.

Download the tool (including source): DownloadCE6R2.zip

AttachmentSize
DownloadCE6R2.zip37.44 KB

Any chance of doing this for R3?

Submitted by Shai (not verified) on October 1, 2009 - 08:10.

Or at least describe the process for dummies like me so I can modify the project to do this.

Thanks.

RE: Any chance of doing this for R3?

Submitted by Michel on October 12, 2009 - 06:56.

At your service!

About starting

Submitted by Fabio Giacomelli (not verified) on July 21, 2009 - 20:44.

Thank you very much for your tool, I'm downloading all the pack.
But what are the requirement for start to develop a windows application (in C# language) for Embedded CE 6.0 with VS2008 and Vista 64?
I have downloaded the Windows embedded CE 6.0 (not R2) trial edition, it starts to install without problems but I didn't terminate the installation yet because it requires VS2005 and I'm using the 2008 version.

But when I start to install the CE R2 version (with web setup edition) I have this error:
at least one cpu from windows embedded ce R2
after some times.

Is it due to web installation? (I'm downloading your offline version)

Thank you

RE: About starting

Submitted by Michel on August 17, 2009 - 22:22.

CE 6.0 R2 is an UPDATE. This means you need to have CE 6.0 installed before you can install CE 6.0 R2.

thank you very much! I've

Submitted by gongwayne (not verified) on May 21, 2009 - 06:19.

thank you very much!
I've been looking for a tool like this one for weeks, Thanks God! I've got it here

Thank you!

Submitted by Anderson (not verified) on May 12, 2009 - 12:32.

Thank you!

great tool

Submitted by Achim (not verified) on May 7, 2009 - 09:15.

thanks a lot
Achim Busenbender
Wirtgen Windhagen

good work man, keep it on!

Submitted by LaurV (not verified) on May 6, 2009 - 05:03.

i got the same problems downloading and installing R1 of CE6, and I looked into the logs, found the link to files and wrote a batch file for FlashGet (or CuteFTP, or other dld manager), like:

get http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/0/9/a09e587c-4ff9-4a58-a854-56f...
get http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/0/9/a09e587c-4ff9-4a58-a854-56f...
etc...

The whole list you need for an ARM4I install of PB6 (R1) is below (you won't need all the files, the total size that you have to dld is only about 900 megs, all the package is much bigger, but all ce_3_** and ce_4_** are not necessarry, and also wcetk_1, wcetk_7, etc).

So for a standard PB6 you need only:

ce_1_1.cab to ce_1_6.cab
ce_2_1.cab to ce_2_5.cab
ce_5_1.cab to ce_5_24.cab
ce_6_1.cab to ce_6_26.cab
crc.cab
data_1.cab
emulator.cab (if you chosed to install it)
tools.cab
tools_corecon.cab
tools_diagnostics.cab
tools_platman.cab
tools_shared.cab
wcetk_2.cab to wcetk_6.cab
wcetk_10.cab,wcetk_11.cab,wcetk_8.cab

All from the link above. You can modify your tool to get R1 too.

For R2 I directly used your tool, it is much convenient, but the dld speed is a bit slower, as it is not doing the "split-tricks" of FlashGet, hehe...

Thanks a thousand times! Keep the good work.

(P.S. please check your url parser, it is not allowing me to post because my web page does not end in .com :D)

RE: good work man, keep it on!

Submitted by Michel on May 7, 2009 - 23:24.

Thanks,

If you need R1 you can of course modify the tool yourself. It includes the source files, so... And yes, it doesn't do fancy split-gets, but it was just a quick fix to an annoying problem ;o)

"P.S. please check your url parser, it is not allowing me to post because my web page does not end in .com"

Not sure what you mean by this or how I can change it. Can you elaborate on what you did or was trying to do?!

I mean when I reply to a

Submitted by LaurV (not verified) on May 20, 2009 - 12:26.

I mean when I reply to a post here, I have to fill "your name", "e-mail", "homepage", "subject", "comment". But the "homepage" is parsed for validity and it says is "invalid domain" or so, and I can't post. My web page ends in .th, if I use .com it will work, but the page is fake then (not real).

about modifying the tool by myself, well, thanks :D next time if I will ever need :D

RE: I mean when I reply to a

Submitted by Michel on May 20, 2009 - 21:08.

I see. I'll check the script (when I find some spare time).

thanks for this useful utility...

Submitted by sharrajesh (not verified) on March 19, 2009 - 20:26.

made my life lot easier.

Thanks your utility is very

Submitted by Virendra Agarwal (not verified) on February 24, 2009 - 17:58.

Thanks your utility is very good & small
i am realy thanks full your your sweat small program

thanks

Submitted by Alan (not verified) on August 1, 2008 - 04:04.

works fine.

Extension to use a proxy with authentification.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on July 10, 2008 - 07:43.

Add the following code to enable it to download the cabinet filets over a proxy with additional authentification:

WebProxy proxy = new WebProxy("host:port");
proxy.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("username", "password"); //, "domain");
web.Proxy = proxy;

Thanks for the tool..

Default proxy Credentials

Submitted by Luke (not verified) on July 16, 2008 - 08:49.

And use these lines if you want to use the default credentials and no password in your source-code.

proxy = new WebProxy("proxy", 8080);
proxy.UseDefaultCredentials = true;
web.Proxy = proxy;

RE: Extension to use a proxy with authentification.

Submitted by Michel on July 11, 2008 - 20:40.

Cool! Thanks!

If this works....

Submitted by Brian (not verified) on July 8, 2008 - 21:49.

...you will have saved my day. I don't have the time to wait for the DVD media order to arrive to get my untethered dev system updated.

RE: If this works...

Submitted by Michel on July 9, 2008 - 22:42.

Did it?

Thanks for the application

Submitted by Shai (not verified) on May 5, 2008 - 10:58.

A time saver.

Thanks a tonne.I was looking

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 20, 2009 - 02:47.

Thanks a tonne.I was looking for this for a long time.