Installing SQL server 2005 express

Hello,

I have a problem installing SQL express from a CD, it installs fine but the installation wizard does not load automatically, so I have tried to setup manually through Add and Remove programs.

But when I get pass System configuration check menu, i do not get the Registration info menu, it goes straight to SQL server express setup and then to another server express setup menu (it skips 3 menu pages) it should have MSML5 components such as SQL setup files, SQL native client, SQL VSS writer etc but it is completely empty. Then I get the finish screen.

However, when I uninstall SQL express, I see the MSML screen with all the components listed before it uninstalls.

I hope this makes sense and I hope someone can help.

Thanks.

Before you installing SQL Server Express, is your machine is a clean machine? If MSXML6 and SQLWriter are already installed, then they should not be installed again. So you can uninstall call components from Add/Remove Programs and reintall.

Installing SQL server 2005 evaluation

After unzipping the download I have run the splash.hta file. I then chose run the sql native client installation wizard. I then receive the installation package is not supported by this processor type. Contact your product vendor. I am installing this for a class I am taking on a test station. It is a PIII 863 with 512 MB or Ram, running windows 2003 enterprise server SP1. I have looked at the hardware guidelines and it seems this is enough to run it. Any ideas?Are you sure you did not download any 64bit images ? What does the Splash Screen tell you ?

HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer.

http://www.sqlserver2005.de

|||Across the top of the splash screen is says SQL Server 2005 (Disk 1 of 2). Then the start options, prepare, install, other information. At the bottom it has Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Evaluation edition. No where does it mention 64bit.|||I was able to find a link to the SQL Server 2000 evaluation edition, and may opt to install that if I cannot corrent the other issue. Does anyone have any other ideas?|||That really does sound like the message displayed when you run a 64-bit application on a 32-bit operating system. Can you try to double click on setup.exe and see if it displays a similar message? If so, it would be displayed even before you see the license dialog.|||Just one quick thing to add. When I downloaded the evaluation edition, I only saw one download. I assumed that when did you the install you chose whether to install the 64bit version or the 32bit version. Are there two seperate downloads for this, one for each version?|||

After reviewing all 3 downloadable links, it appears the X86 download is the non 64 bit download. After looking at the one I downloaded and installed, it appears it is the 64 bit version. Why the 32 bit version is named X86, I am not sure.

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That is the correct behavior that you are seeing. The three packages are:

x86 - for all 32-bit machines
x64 - for x64 (AMD-64) 64-bit machines
ia64 - for ia64 (Itanium) 64-bit machines

Thanks,
Sam Lester (MSFT)