Hi,

I am trying to load MSDE 7 onto a client's machine which
I have done many times before, as our main product
utilises it. I have run into a problem on both of their
servers which they are prepared to allow us to use,
although I have never seen this one before.

I am using a .iss unattended setup file, during the
installation I recieve the following error:

"Error - cannot load the SQL Server Setup (87):
C:\Docume~1\Admini~1\Locals~1
\Temp\pftB8~tmp\setup\sqlstp.exe Command line length
exceeded - place the files referenced by the -f1 and -f2
command line arguments in a shorter path."

I tried changing the tmp and temp environment variables,
to no avail even after rebooting. If I browse to this
path whilst the error is on screen I can copy the setup
files to another location with a shorter path-would
running the install from there perhaps work around the
issue? The problem I have is that both the servers are
currently being used for other purposes and the client
(rightly) doesn't want to let us play around with his
live servers, I cannot reproduce the problem elsewhere.

Any help on this would be gratefully accepted!
Thankyou
David Hartry
..

Have you tried the subst command? It can get you closer to the install
directory.

Clive

David Hartry wrote:
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