"John Rydenbark" wrote:

> Hi
> I am trying to instal MSDE 2000 on a Windows XP Pro SP2 machine. I type in
> ....
> "Setup.exe /qb+ INSTANCENAME=NetSDK DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=1 SAPWD=<YOUR SA
> PASSWORD>" at the command prompt and the MSDE setup begins to take place. At
> the nearly the end of the install, I get a pop-up dialog stating the the
> instalation failed.
>
> I checked setupapi.log file under C:\winnt and the follwoing error was in
> their...
> "
> [2005/01/03 21:29:08 2672.1]
> #-199 Executing "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local
> Settings\Temp\IXP000.TMP\dasetup.exe" with command line: /Q /N
> #E077 Could not locate a non-empty section [DefaultInstall] when calculating
> disk space in "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local
> Settings\Temp\IXP000.TMP\noop.inf". Error 0xe0000102: The required line was
> not found in the INF."
>
> Anyone have any ideas as to what the above means. Also, I checked the
> dasetup.log file that was created when attempting to install MSDE and I
> noticed the following...
> : ****************************************
> : * Beginning of Install *
> : ****************************************
> Starting Install: Current Date/Time (U.S. Local Time): 01/03/2005 : 21:29:07
> Path: C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\system32;
> Localization: Machine Locale set to: English_United States.1252
> Command Line Parameters:
> Suppress Reboot: 0
> Quiet/Silent Mode: 1
> Logging Level: 3
> INI File: dasetup.ini
>
> Windows Directory: C:\WINNT
> Progress: Loading Resource Library.
> Progress: Parsing INI File.
> *************************:
> ** Begin INI File Dump **:
> *************************:
> Ini Section: General
> : ProductName = Microsoft Data Access Components 2.7
> : ProductBuild = 2.71.9040.2
> : ProductUrl = http://www.microsoft.com/data
> : ProductVersionKey = SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DataAccess
> : ProductVersionValue = FullInstallVer
> : InstanceName = MDAC
> : CheckInUseFiles = 1
> : EULAFile = MDACEULA.RTF
> : EULAType = rtf
> : SupportsTS = 1
> : SupportsMUI = 0
> : CheckForDiskSpace = 1
> : ValidOs = 4294967295
>
> I find it starnge that the install is trying to use MDAC 2.7 when I
> currently have MDAC 2.8 SP1 installed on my machine (I verified this through
> the MDAC compcheck app).
>
> Anyone have any ideas as to what is going on???
>
> PS Sorry for the long message
>
> Thanks
>