MSDE 2000 Release A does not support merge modules to embed MSDE with custom
application setup. I went through MSDE Bootstrapper Toolkit and apparently it
is still in beta.

How would I distribute my application? Is there any other way of embedding

Rats, I get to pass the news you won't like again :-)

Every option I've seen/tried to install the MSDE silently has issues. We've
given up and just ship a setup.ini file that's appropriately modified to
suit our requirements and then just get the end user to run the setup.exe
program. Since doing so, we've gone from tons of setup issues to almost
none.

The situation improves greatly with SQL Express but that's not today.

HTH,

--
Greg Low [MVP]
MSDE Manager SQL Tools
www.whitebearconsulting.com

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Hello,

Personally, I launch msde msi file with msiexec /i. (in the
installUISequence)
I have changed the msi from msde to have the password for sa and all is
fine.


Marc Allard
Allcomp





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