Invalid Instance Name while trying to install MSDE

I am running XP SP2. I have downloaded MSDE (SQL Sever 2000) to put on my
laptop for training purposes. When I try to load the setup program I get an
error message saying "The Instance Name Specified Is Invalid" and then when I
acknowledge the message the install exits. I have searched for and tried to
understand the post that seem to relate to my problem but I am just not
knowledgable enough to understand what to do. If someone would please tell me
(in baby steps) how to fix this problem so I can install MSDE then I would
really appreciate it. If you need ANY additional information please feel free
to contact me and I will respond immediately. Your time and attention is very
much appreciated.
Thank you for your help...premium001
Read into the readme file in your extracted folder.
If there is an instance of SQL Server already installed, the MSDE should be
named.
"premium001" wrote:

> I am running XP SP2. I have downloaded MSDE (SQL Sever 2000) to put on my
> laptop for training purposes. When I try to load the setup program I get an
> error message saying "The Instance Name Specified Is Invalid" and then when I
> acknowledge the message the install exits. I have searched for and tried to
> understand the post that seem to relate to my problem but I am just not
> knowledgable enough to understand what to do. If someone would please tell me
> (in baby steps) how to fix this problem so I can install MSDE then I would
> really appreciate it. If you need ANY additional information please feel free
> to contact me and I will respond immediately. Your time and attention is very
> much appreciated.
> --
> Thank you for your help...premium001
|||hi,
premium001 wrote:
> I am running XP SP2. I have downloaded MSDE (SQL Sever 2000) to put
> on my laptop for training purposes. When I try to load the setup
> program I get an error message saying "The Instance Name Specified Is
> Invalid" and then when I acknowledge the message the install exits. I
> have searched for and tried to understand the post that seem to
> relate to my problem but I am just not knowledgable enough to
> understand what to do. If someone would please tell me (in baby
> steps) how to fix this problem so I can install MSDE then I would
> really appreciate it. If you need ANY additional information please
> feel free to contact me and I will respond immediately. Your time and
> attention is very much appreciated.
as <zhaounknown> already wrote, please read the proviede ReadmeFile... it
explains you have to provide a set of parameters to the setup.exe boostrap
installer..
typically you have to provide the SAPWD="your strong password" as you are
forced to protect "sa" login ...
you can specify if you like to enable network connections
(DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=0), if you like to permit standard SQL Server
authenticated connections (SECURITY MODE=SQL) as the default does not permit
them to be authenticated, or if you like to install a named instance
(INSTANCENAME="the name").. and please enable verbose logging of the
installation task providing the /L*v "c:\Msde.txt" parameter, which results
in an about 2Mb text file you can inspect for
RETURN VALUE 3
entries indicating troubles... about 10/20 lines before and/or after each
entry some (sometime cryptic) description of the problem will be logged..
so, if you like to install a named instance (named "MSDE") with enabled
networkprotocols and enabling SQL Server authenticated connections you have
to provide something similar to
C:\MSDERelaA\>setup.exe INSTANCENAME="MSDE" SECURITY MODE=SQL
DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=0 SAPWD="your strong password" /L*v "c:\Msde.txt"
all on the same line from the command promt
Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
DbaMgr2k ver 0.11.1 - DbaMgr ver 0.57.0
(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
interface)
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