installing MSDE

Hi:
I'm just getting started with ASP.net and am trying to install MSDE. I am getting the error message : Instance specified name is invalid.
I have followed the directions in the downloadpage. Any help??

Thanks
Crystal.How are you installing it?|||Do you have another version of SQL Server running, i.e. 7.0? You may not be able to install MSDE with MSSQL7 running.

Installation problems

I am installing SQL server 2005 in a different location than the default one specified. Half way through the installation I get the following error:

The file %CommonDir%\dte80a.olb could not be loaded. An attempt to repair this condition failed because the file could not be found. Please reinstall the program.

There are also other similar errors regarding files with .olb extensions.

Can anyone explain what can be done in this case?

Thanks,

Hemant

I've heard of people hitting these issues when the libraries get unregistered on the machine somehow. Can you try to manually register it using regsvr32 and kick it off again? That should do the trick.

Thanks,
Sam Lester (MSFT)

installation problem.. instance name?!

i tried installing MSDE with the command line: setup SAPWD=<password> SECURITYMODE=SQL and i get the following error: The instance name specified is invalid. what is it saying? can someone pls help me out? thanxI don't know but it might misinterpretate the securitymode=sql flag for an instancename? Or do already you have another instance of MSDE installed at your computer? In that case the next installation has to be named. Each installation is a new instance)
I installed MSDE with just the SAPWD flag, try that