MSDE Installation Help

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
I also found this error in the dahotfix.log
"
[05:03:12]: An error occurred while setup was trying to verify the version
of Microsoft Data Access Components current installed on the machine.
Either the version currently installed does not match the version of this
hotfix package, or setup was unable to determine the version currently
installed.
["
"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
>