sql server msde: How to install MSDE? -- sql server msde

Re: How to install MSDE?

Andrea Montanari
1/20/2005 11:29:16 AM

sql server msde: hi,
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please add the
/L*v "c:\MsdeLog.txt"
parameter to your setup SAPWD="mypassword" call... this will log the
installation process to a (about 2mb) text file you can inspect for errors
searching for
RETURN VALUE 3
entries.... about 10/15 lines before and/or after some (sometime cryptic)
description of the problem will be reported...
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Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
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(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
interface)
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How to install MSDE?

fred flintstone
1/20/2005 9:10:38 PM

This is my first time installing MSDE.

Trying to install it onto Windows XP Pro SP2. Already attempted on 2
different machines.

I downloaded msde200a and ran the EXE. It extracted the files to
c:\msderela.

From the command prompt i run 'setup SAPWD="mypassword"' as per the
instructions at http://functionx.com/sql/Lesson01.htm

The Setup program begins and then rolls itself back.

On the 2nd machine Setup begins (again, I cannot see the typical Wizard
to click Next, Next, Next, Finish, etc) and then comes up with an error
saying to 'check the error logs'.

Where are the error logs?

I hope MS isn't following in the *nix community tradition of making
things hard and frustrating to install!!!!!