Install Problem...Please Help!

A third party application is trying to install MSDE 2000 on our XP Professional machine. Install gets to about "2 seconds remaining" then backs out and simply quits. No error messages. Saw a similar post on here but it was never resolved. I've made sure t
he Server service is running and that File and Print Sharing for Microsoft Networks is installed and enabled. Any help would be greatly appreciated...this is a very important application we are trying to install. Thanks.
Floyd
Thanks for the reply. The application never installs so there is no .ini file...not that I would know what to change in it if it was there. Why won't this stupid thing just install? This is driving me batty!
"sthomas" wrote:

> hi :
> Check the .ini file if you have any that is coming with
> the application and do modifications if it is required
>
> on our XP Professional machine. Install gets to about "2
> seconds remaining" then backs out and simply quits. No
> error messages. Saw a similar post on here but it was
> never resolved. I've made sure the Server service is
> running and that File and Print Sharing for Microsoft
> Networks is installed and enabled. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated...this is a very important
> application we are trying to install. Thanks.
>

Installation

I am trying to install msde on server 2003 platform. No matter what I try
when the installation reaches 1 second remaining it then rolls back the
installation process.
hi Ryan,
Ryan wrote:
> I am trying to install msde on server 2003 platform. No matter what I
> try when the installation reaches 1 second remaining it then rolls
> back the installation process.
please add the
/L*v "c:\MsdeLog.txt"
parameter to the setup.exe boostrap installer call, in order to enable
verbose logging of the installation process..
you can later inspect that text file (about 2mb for a complete succesfull
installation) for
RETURN VALUE 3
entries... about 10/15 lines before each entry some (sometime cryptic)
description of the problem will be reported..
Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
DbaMgr2k ver 0.14.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.59.0
(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
interface)
-- remove DMO to reply
|||When i try that i get "error opening installation log file. Verify that the
specified log file location exists and is writable" I have verified
everything concerning the log file and still receive this error.
"Andrea Montanari" wrote:

> hi Ryan,
> Ryan wrote:
> please add the
> /L*v "c:\MsdeLog.txt"
> parameter to the setup.exe boostrap installer call, in order to enable
> verbose logging of the installation process..
> you can later inspect that text file (about 2mb for a complete succesfull
> installation) for
> RETURN VALUE 3
> entries... about 10/15 lines before each entry some (sometime cryptic)
> description of the problem will be reported..
> --
> Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
> http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
> DbaMgr2k ver 0.14.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.59.0
> (my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
> interface)
> -- remove DMO to reply
>
>
|||Ryan,
I had exactly the same problem trying to install MSDE SP3. After hours of
searching I never found a definitive answer for the problem. What finally
worked for me was to completely clean out my failed installation attempts
(including the registry) and install MSDE from scratch using the new SP4
file. This file will allow you to create a new install as well as upgrade
existing MSDE installations. The command that I used for the installation
(which installs a named instance) is:
Setup DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=0 INSTANCENAME="mynamedinstance"
SAPWD="mypassword" /L*v C:\MSDE_setup.log
This approach worked for me on the first try. Hope it helps... RS
"Ryan" wrote:

> I am trying to install msde on server 2003 platform. No matter what I try
> when the installation reaches 1 second remaining it then rolls back the
> installation process.