> hi,
> Baruch Ortiz wrote:
>> Hello:
>>
>> I'm trying to install the MSDE in a server that only needs the
>> engine of SQL that it works properly, furtunelly, I have a
>> preproduction environment, in the preproduction evironment the MSDE
>> is installed without problems but in the production environment
>> doesn't finish the installation, it breaks before finish, then it
>> deletes all the unpacked files...
>> At the beguining i thougth that it was an service pack problem, but
>> that doesn't fix the problem... any ideas?...
>>
>> The servers are Windows 2003 SP1 with all those updates from
>> http://WindowsUpdate.Microsoft.Com
>>
>> Baruch Ortiz
>
> please add then
> /L*v "c:\MsdeLog.txt"
> parameter to your call to setup.exe boostrap installer in order to enable
> verbose logging of the installation process... you can then inspect the
> resulting text file for
> RETURN VALUE 3
> entries, indicating problems... about 10 lines before each entry, some
> (sometime cryptic) description of the problem will be reported..
> --
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Baruch Ortiz wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I'm trying to install the MSDE in a server that only needs the
> engine of SQL that it works properly, furtunelly, I have a
> preproduction environment, in the preproduction evironment the MSDE
> is installed without problems but in the production environment
> doesn't finish the installation, it breaks before finish, then it
> deletes all the unpacked files...
> At the beguining i thougth that it was an service pack problem, but
> that doesn't fix the problem... any ideas?...
>
> The servers are Windows 2003 SP1 with all those updates from
> http://WindowsUpdate.Microsoft.Com
>
> Baruch Ortiz