Cant find installer

I'm trying my first install of MSDE 2000 and having some
difficulty. I downloaded the package, then extracted it.
Then read the entire readme telling me all the
requirements and such. I then opened a console window,
and tried to install it. I made my changes to my .ini
file and referenced that on the command line. I'm
getting an error message however that says this. "The
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 pakcage".
I went to the knowledge base and the only thing I could
find as a possible problem was that I have SQL server
running all 16 instances on my machine, but this is my
first install ever so there's no way that I have any
other instances running. Please help!
"Culbert" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm trying my first install of MSDE 2000 and having some
> difficulty. I downloaded the package, then extracted it.
> Then read the entire readme telling me all the
> requirements and such. I then opened a console window,
> and tried to install it. I made my changes to my .ini
> file and referenced that on the command line. I'm
> getting an error message however that says this. "The
> 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 pakcage".
> I went to the knowledge base and the only thing I could
> find as a possible problem was that I have SQL server
> running all 16 instances on my machine, but this is my
> first install ever so there's no way that I have any
> other instances running. Please help!
This may be belaboring the obvious, but you did navigate to the directory
where MSDE was extracted before issuing the install command (or, include the
fully qualified path to the install file in the command), correct?
Peter [MVP Visual Developer]
Jack of all trades, master of none.
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>This may be belaboring the obvious, but you did navigate
to the directory
>where MSDE was extracted before issuing the install
command (or, include the
>fully qualified path to the install file in the
command), correct?
>--
>Peter [MVP Visual Developer]
>Jack of all trades, master of none.
>
>.
>
Thank you for the reply. I figured it out, but what it
was I never though of. I downloaded a corrupt .exe
file. It was the same size, but when I re-downloaded it,
it will still the same size except it had WAY more files
this time after extracting.
Thanks!
|||"Culbert" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thank you for the reply. I figured it out, but what it
> was I never though of. I downloaded a corrupt .exe
> file. It was the same size, but when I re-downloaded it,
> it will still the same size except it had WAY more files
> this time after extracting.
> Thanks!
Glad you got it worked out, and thank you for posting the resolution!
Peter [MVP Visual Developer]
Jack of all trades, master of none.
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