hi,
[quoted text, click to view] Thunda wrote:
> ANDREA,
> Thank you for your answer. I have another question. I am sending
> these files across a network and trying to automate the installation.
> I know how to automate the MSDE install after I have extracted the
> files from the SQL2000.MSDE-KB884525-SP4-x86-ENU.EXE, but is there a
> way to use command lines to extract silently or maybe even feed it a
> path to extract to?
unfortunately this installer is a Wise based installer and does not seems to
accept command line params like /X c:\somepath\ :(
[quoted text, click to view] > That way I only have to worry about one file?
this is not trua as, as you can see from the extraced result, it's a quiet
long list of files, starting with
Directory of C:\SQL2KSP4\MSDE
21/11/2006 12.48 <DIR> .
21/11/2006 12.48 <DIR> ..
22/11/2004 12.50 1.214 autorun.inf
27/04/2005 22.43 14.083 license.txt
21/11/2006 12.48 <DIR> Msi
21/11/2006 12.48 <DIR> MSM
29/11/2004 12.06 348.160 msvcr71.dll
02/12/2004 11.36 1.068 readme.txt
03/05/2005 21.27 157.071 ReadmeSql2k32desksp4.htm
21/11/2006 12.48 <DIR> Setup
03/05/2005 22.34 237.568 setup.exe
25/04/2004 19.41 11 setup.ini
03/05/2005 22.33 53.248 setup.rll
04/05/2005 00.02 126.976 sqdedev.dll
04/05/2005 00.02 35.840 sqlresld.dll
04/05/2005 00.02 278.528 sqlsut.dll
04/05/2005 00.02 192.512 sqlunirl.dll
12 File(s) 1.446.279 bytes
etc...., so you have to care about more than a single file, but I do
understand your requirement... :(
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