Today i found myself in a big problem in while in my office as i just need to configure IIS on a machine , but i dont have win XP cd or any image file, i need it to accomplish this task today, Than i searched over internet and found something to Install IIS in windows XP without Having Windows XP CD, as happy to share here :-)
1) Download the windows XP SP 2 patch from here .2) Extract the downloaded exe file using the bellow command in command prompt.
C:\Downloads\Software>WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe /extract d:\xpsp2
Here c:\downloads\software is the folder where this WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe file is stored and d:\xpsp2 is location where all the files from this file will get extracted.
3) When extraction is done install IIS and give the path of i386 folder in d:\xpsp2\i386 folder it will take all the necessary files from this location.
Precaution: The above method will work only for windows XP 32 bit version. For 64 bit version you need to download separate sp2 file.
