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.
>

Install - datadir and targetdir (again)

Hi
I'm having a problem during installation: it stops when it is 5 seconds to
complete, and then rolls back.
However: If I delete the lines with datadir and targetdir from my ini-file,
it works fine. Anyone knows...?
I am using this ini file:
[Options]
Disablenetworkprotocols=0
Sequritymode=SQL
Datadir="C:\MSDE\Data\"
Targetdir="C:\MSDE\exefiler\"
...and I have logged it... doesn't help me... was hoping to find someone
who had experienced this
Frank
Hi
Does you have rights to create files and directories on the C drive?
Regards
Mike
"FTL" wrote:

> Hi
> I'm having a problem during installation: it stops when it is 5 seconds to
> complete, and then rolls back.
> However: If I delete the lines with datadir and targetdir from my ini-file,
> it works fine. Anyone knows...?
> I am using this ini file:
> [Options]
> Disablenetworkprotocols=0
> Sequritymode=SQL
> Datadir="C:\MSDE\Data\"
> Targetdir="C:\MSDE\exefiler\"
> ...and I have logged it... doesn't help me... was hoping to find someone
> who had experienced this
> Frank
>
>

Install - Datadir and Targetdir

Hi
I'm having a problem during installation: it stops when it is 5 seconds to
complete, and then rolls back.
However: If I delete the lines with datadir and targetdir from my ini-file,
it works fine. Anyone knows...?
I am using this ini file:
[Options]
Disablenetworkprotocols=0
Sequritymode=SQL
Datadir="C:\MSDE\Data\"
Targetdir="C:\MSDE\exefiler\"
Frank
hi Frank,
"FTL" <frankgtl@.online.no> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:17zvd.21612$Km6.282707@.news4.e.nsc.no
> Hi
> I'm having a problem during installation: it stops when it is 5
> seconds to complete, and then rolls back.
> However: If I delete the lines with datadir and targetdir from my
> ini-file, it works fine. Anyone knows...?
> I am using this ini file:
> [Options]
> Disablenetworkprotocols=0
> Sequritymode=SQL
> Datadir="C:\MSDE\Data\"
> Targetdir="C:\MSDE\exefiler\"
> Frank
please add the
/L*v "c:\YourLogFile.txt"
command line parameter to your call to the setup.exe boostrapper installer,
in order to enable verbose log for the installation... this will result in
an about 2mb text file you can inspect for
RETURN VALUE 3
entries...
about 10/15 lines before and/or after each entry some (sometime cryptic)
description of encountered problem will be shown
Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
DbaMgr2k ver 0.9.1 - DbaMgr ver 0.55.1
(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
interface)
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