i'm installing software (for fire alarm panel maintenance) on a netbook running xp. i copied the contents of the installation cd to a usb as the netbook has no cd drive.
the contents of the cd are the setup.exe, and a zipped folder ISSetupPrerequisites which contains
a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express SP1 folderand four other folders containing intallShield, hot fixes etc
when i run setup.exe, i cannot continue the installation process as SQL Server Express 2008 is not installed. so, from the installer, i choose to download SQL Server Express 2008, it downloads, extracts (this all happens through setup.exe) and during installion
i get an SQL Server Setup error saying that the SQLConfigFile.ini file does not exist. if i check the directory of this error i can see that the file is not there. is this a problem with SQL Express or the installation disk? the version the installer is downloading?
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