Installation Order Suggestions
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Having spent several days restoring a hopelessly damaged system I now need to rebuild all the apps that were once installed. At the moment I have Win2K Server SP2 running (though it is still freezing up periodically) with only the peripherals, IE/OE5.0, Sonork, Trillian, and a nifty program for talking to my digicam installed. That would seem to narrow the list of candidates for the freezing problem. I now need to add my apps and addons/upgrades, to wit: Win2K SP3, .NET Framework, VS6SP5, PSDK, MSDN, DDSK, Quickbooks, Access, Jasc Photoshop, PHP, SimpliCD, SQL Server, MDAC2.7, MSDE, Palm Desktop, CuteFTP, and a small assortment of lesser applications. Happily, all of the downloaded software still exists on various drives, so in most cases it's simply a matter of locating the original self-extracting file to re-install. Is there a recommended order I should follow to minimize problems or conflicts during the process? Suggestions are most welcome!:-D Ancient man conquered his rivals with the jawbone of an ass; modern man uses the jawbone of a politician.
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Having spent several days restoring a hopelessly damaged system I now need to rebuild all the apps that were once installed. At the moment I have Win2K Server SP2 running (though it is still freezing up periodically) with only the peripherals, IE/OE5.0, Sonork, Trillian, and a nifty program for talking to my digicam installed. That would seem to narrow the list of candidates for the freezing problem. I now need to add my apps and addons/upgrades, to wit: Win2K SP3, .NET Framework, VS6SP5, PSDK, MSDN, DDSK, Quickbooks, Access, Jasc Photoshop, PHP, SimpliCD, SQL Server, MDAC2.7, MSDE, Palm Desktop, CuteFTP, and a small assortment of lesser applications. Happily, all of the downloaded software still exists on various drives, so in most cases it's simply a matter of locating the original self-extracting file to re-install. Is there a recommended order I should follow to minimize problems or conflicts during the process? Suggestions are most welcome!:-D Ancient man conquered his rivals with the jawbone of an ass; modern man uses the jawbone of a politician.
Well, a few of those items are redundant: SQL Server 2000 SP3 contains MDAC 2.7, so if you apply SQL Server 2000 SP 3, you shouldn't need to install MDAC. MSDE is a subset of SQL Server, so you shouldn't need to install that (and shouldn't really, unless you know what you are doing. Improperly installing MSDE after installing SQL Server may break SQL Server (or at least the SQL Server tools). Other than that, have fun! Jerry Dennany
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Well, a few of those items are redundant: SQL Server 2000 SP3 contains MDAC 2.7, so if you apply SQL Server 2000 SP 3, you shouldn't need to install MDAC. MSDE is a subset of SQL Server, so you shouldn't need to install that (and shouldn't really, unless you know what you are doing. Improperly installing MSDE after installing SQL Server may break SQL Server (or at least the SQL Server tools). Other than that, have fun! Jerry Dennany
Thanks, Jerry. I just noticed that I actually have SP4 for SQL Server, so I used that instead. Unfortunately I installed SQL Server on the I: drive, and the management program insists on trying to open an out of date version on the C: drive. Asinine installation programs... Ancient man conquered his rivals with the jawbone of an ass; modern man uses the jawbone of a politician.
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Having spent several days restoring a hopelessly damaged system I now need to rebuild all the apps that were once installed. At the moment I have Win2K Server SP2 running (though it is still freezing up periodically) with only the peripherals, IE/OE5.0, Sonork, Trillian, and a nifty program for talking to my digicam installed. That would seem to narrow the list of candidates for the freezing problem. I now need to add my apps and addons/upgrades, to wit: Win2K SP3, .NET Framework, VS6SP5, PSDK, MSDN, DDSK, Quickbooks, Access, Jasc Photoshop, PHP, SimpliCD, SQL Server, MDAC2.7, MSDE, Palm Desktop, CuteFTP, and a small assortment of lesser applications. Happily, all of the downloaded software still exists on various drives, so in most cases it's simply a matter of locating the original self-extracting file to re-install. Is there a recommended order I should follow to minimize problems or conflicts during the process? Suggestions are most welcome!:-D Ancient man conquered his rivals with the jawbone of an ass; modern man uses the jawbone of a politician.
I've re-installed SQL Server 7 three times, then attempted to apply SP3 and SP4. Both fail, claiming that an entry point in ums.dll doesn't exist: CreateUser@UmsScheduler@@ blahblahblah. This package installed perfectly about a year ago, and the CD is undamaged! Technet is completely silent about the issue. This is nuts!!! Should I just copy the newer version of ums.dll to the active directory? Ideas, anyone? Ancient man conquered his rivals with the jawbone of an ass; modern man uses the jawbone of a politician.
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I've re-installed SQL Server 7 three times, then attempted to apply SP3 and SP4. Both fail, claiming that an entry point in ums.dll doesn't exist: CreateUser@UmsScheduler@@ blahblahblah. This package installed perfectly about a year ago, and the CD is undamaged! Technet is completely silent about the issue. This is nuts!!! Should I just copy the newer version of ums.dll to the active directory? Ideas, anyone? Ancient man conquered his rivals with the jawbone of an ass; modern man uses the jawbone of a politician.
Oops! In my previous posts, note that I was speaking of SQL Server 2000, not SQL Server 7, so you may well have to apply MDAC 2.7 (I'm not that familiar with SQL 7, as it's been awhile). You might want to search your hard drive for the file "sqlsp.log". This might help you get to the problem. Good luck! Jerry
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Oops! In my previous posts, note that I was speaking of SQL Server 2000, not SQL Server 7, so you may well have to apply MDAC 2.7 (I'm not that familiar with SQL 7, as it's been awhile). You might want to search your hard drive for the file "sqlsp.log". This might help you get to the problem. Good luck! Jerry
Thanks, Jerry, but all it tells me is that it couldn't start MSSQL Server; I already knew that. I downloaded and tried to install SP3 just in case it provided the missing entry point in the ums.dll file, but it caused the same set of errors. Installing MDAC2.7 worked fine, but I'll have to remove and re-install the SQL Server again without the service pack and leave it at that. Thanks again for the suggestions... Ancient man conquered his rivals with the jawbone of an ass; modern man uses the jawbone of a politician.