MSDE setup question

Hello:

I had partitioned my harddrive to have both XP PRO and Red Hat. Got fed up with all that and so used Partition Magic 8.0 to repartition the drive to be one 16 Gig drive. I still have over 8 Gig left on it even after installing VS .NET on it.

I have successfully installed Visual Studio .NET Pro 2003 on it and I can now write programs in VB and see it on my intranet at c:/wwwroot/.

I am now trying to install MSDE 2000 for Developers Using VS .NET. I have downloaded the file from Microsoft and then when I go to install it on my hard drive it tells me it cannot; I have to free up 92.44 Megs for it to be able to extract it to my c drive.

I am a newbee and any help will be GREATLY appreciated!!Sorry but have solved this problem too.

Turns out I was using the wrong download.

Thanx anyways.|||Ohh Boy, you are really working under a tight Hard drive. With 92.44 Megs, any software would complain about free space. Free up some space and try it. Some harddisk space is needed for paging and stuff, so its very normal your program complaining about the disk space. I hope thats what your problem is.

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MSDE installed succesfully but there is no instancename folder

Hello
I finally managed to install MSDE after more than 20 attempts. The strange
thing is, there was no error during the installation, but there is no
instance name folder.
I used this command to install: setup.exe instancename="name" blanksapwd=1
securitymode=sql /L*v C:\MSDE_setup.log targetdir="c:\msde\"
There is even no C:\msde folder, the instancename isn't mentioned in the
registry, but my log file says that the installation operation was completed
successfully. This means also that my dropdown lists in the sql server
service manger are empty, because it can't find back the services that are
needed.
What did I do wrong? I hope that anyone can help me
"pluno" <pluno@.discussions.microsoft.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> Hello
> I finally managed to install MSDE after more than 20 attempts. The
> strange thing is, there was no error during the installation, but
> there is no instance name folder.
> I used this command to install: setup.exe instancename="name"
> blanksapwd=1 securitymode=sql /L*v C:\MSDE_setup.log
> targetdir="c:\msde\"
> There is even no C:\msde folder, the instancename isn't mentioned in
> the registry, but my log file says that the installation operation
> was completed successfully. This means also that my dropdown lists in
> the sql server service manger are empty, because it can't find back
> the services that are needed.
> What did I do wrong? I hope that anyone can help me
have a look at \program files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL$name
as /L*v parameter expects it's value enclosed in "...", perhaps TARGETDIR
has not been honored..
just a guess...
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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