Friday, March 9, 2012

Installation Problem

In the early phases of installation i get the following error message:

This installation package could not be opened. Verify that the package exists and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package

i did some research on the web, and i found the same error in SQL Server 2000 refers to having too many instances. In this situation, its not the case. When I narrowed the specifics down to ' sql server 2005' in my search, i'm inconclusive because all answers point in different directions.

Any suggestions?did it create an installation log file? if so, what does it say?|||Oh.. now i see the problem.
It looks for sqlrun.msi when the file i have is called sqlrun_sql.msi.
well i tried to rename the file and reinstall, but intallation did not like that either.
how do i point installation to the correct file?

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