Installation hangs!

Hi!
I've tried to install and reinstall (after thourogh removal) MSDE 2000 A. It
always hangs!
I've followed this document, but nothing helps.
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...eMSDE2000A.htm
It seems in the install log, that the execution of sqlredis.exe hangs.
Any advice/help would be very much appreciated!
regards
Karl
hi Karl,
Karl Zeift wrote:
> Hi!
> I've tried to install and reinstall (after thourogh removal) MSDE
> 2000 A. It always hangs!
> I've followed this document, but nothing helps.
>
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...eMSDE2000A.htm
> It seems in the install log, that the execution of sqlredis.exe hangs.
> Any advice/help would be very much appreciated!
> regards
> Karl
if you think that sqlredis.exe hangs, try separately re-installing MDAC
stack before installing MSDE ... you can get the desired version or the MDAC
package from http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/Default.aspx
you can check your current MDAC level using Component Checker, you can
download at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en
please always add the
/L*v "c:\MsdeLog.txt"
parameter to your setup.exe bootstrap installer calls, in order to log the
installation process to a text file of about 2mb you can inspect for
RETURN VALUE 3
entries, that indicate errors, and, about 10/20 lines before or after each
entry you can fined some more (sometime cryptic) descriptive explanation of
the problem found...
Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
DbaMgr2k ver 0.10.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.56.0
(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
interface)
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|||"Andrea Montanari" <andrea.sqlDMO@.virgilio.it> wrote in message
news:36rnmqF564rhoU1@.individual.net...
> hi Karl,
> Karl Zeift wrote:
> http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...eMSDE2000A.htm
> if you think that sqlredis.exe hangs, try separately re-installing MDAC
> stack before installing MSDE ... you can get the desired version or the
> MDAC
> package from http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/Default.aspx
> you can check your current MDAC level using Component Checker, you can
> download at
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en
> please always add the
> /L*v "c:\MsdeLog.txt"
> parameter to your setup.exe bootstrap installer calls, in order to log the
> installation process to a text file of about 2mb you can inspect for
> RETURN VALUE 3
> entries, that indicate errors, and, about 10/20 lines before or after each
> entry you can fined some more (sometime cryptic) descriptive explanation
> of
> the problem found...
> --
> Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
> http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
> DbaMgr2k ver 0.10.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.56.0
> (my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
> interface)
> -- remove DMO to reply
Thanks for your reply!
It did not seem to help. The Component Checker reports that I have version
2.8 SP 1 on Win XP SP 2. I downloaded the Mdac 2.8 from the link you
suggested to reinstall it, but it reports that it's not intended for my
version of Windows, since its already included.
I paste the last few log rows from the MsdeLog.txt here (if that contains
any clues...):
It seems that sqlredis.exe just hangs forever...
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server
Setup.{E09B48B5-E141-427A-AB0C-D3605127224A}
TempFolder is
C:\DOCUME~1\Kalle\LOCALS~1\Temp\{E09B48B5-E141-427A-AB0C-D3605127224A}\
Loading extended custom action library
C:\DOCUME~1\Kalle\LOCALS~1\Temp\{E09B48B5-E141-427A-AB0C-D3605127224A}\sqlcax.dll
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server
Setup.{E09B48B5-E141-427A-AB0C-D3605127224A}
Starting custom action NoRebootReplace
TempFolder Property is C:\DOCUME~1\Kalle\LOCALS~1\Temp\
Source Dir Property is C:\DOCUME~1\Kalle\LOCALS~1\Temp\SqlSetup\Temp
NoRebootConnectRepl returned: 0
MSI (s) (64:D8) [14:37:09:421]: Executing op:
ActionStart(Name=InstallSqlRedis.2D02443E_7002_4C0 B_ABC9_EAB2C064397B,,)
MSI (s) (64:D8) [14:37:09:421]: Executing op:
CustomActionSchedule(Action=InstallSqlRedis.2D0244 3E_7002_4C0B_ABC9_EAB2C064397B,ActionType=1025,Sou rce=BinaryData,Target=InstallSqlRedis,)
MSI (s) (64:04) [14:37:09:437]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL:
C:\WINDOWS\Installer\MSIB4.tmp, Entrypoint: InstallSqlRedis
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server
Setup.{E09B48B5-E141-427A-AB0C-D3605127224A}
TempFolder is
C:\DOCUME~1\Kalle\LOCALS~1\Temp\{E09B48B5-E141-427A-AB0C-D3605127224A}\
Loading extended custom action library
C:\DOCUME~1\Kalle\LOCALS~1\Temp\{E09B48B5-E141-427A-AB0C-D3605127224A}\sqlcax.dll
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server
Setup.{E09B48B5-E141-427A-AB0C-D3605127224A}
Starting custom action InstallSqlRedis
Executing "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Binn\sqlredis.exe
/q:a"