Installation Problems

I downloaded MS SQL as an ISO file, and tried to mount the image. All I got was a quick loading screen and then MS SQL in a grey box, and it didn't even show up on my applications list when I pushed CTRL+ALT+DELETE.

Um. Help? :[

Hhhmm, that sounds strange, could be a number of reasons why this is happening, what are you using to mount the image? Alcohol 120% is a good program http://www.alcohol-soft.com/

If you don't want to spend a lot of time troubleshooting this you can always extract the ISO contents to a local folder and install SQL from there, Winimage is a good freebie you can use to extract the ISO http://www.winimage.com/

|||Try to directly run the setup in the folder: SQL Server x86\Servers

There might be some security issues which does not allow you to run .hta files.

HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.

http://www.sqlserver2005.de|||In my case, I am using Virtual CDROM from http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/xpvirtualcddownload.html to access my ISO images. All you need to do is follow the readme file. You can even share the virtual CD ROM in your network