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Posted by Jean-Marc Blaise on 08/29/06 19:45
Hi Erland,
I will try to relocate ProgramFilesDir registry to install MSSQL2K5.
Great thanks for your explanations,
JM
"Erland Sommarskog" <esquel@sommarskog.se> a ιcrit dans le message de
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> Jean-Marc Blaise (nobody@nowhere.com) writes:
> > How can I make MSSQL2K5 setup install everything in the install path I
> > have choosen - it keeps installing some files in ¨%SystemRoot% ?
>
> If you just choose an alternate location at installation time, it's only
> a minor part of the files that are relocated. Something like 1.6 GB ends
> up on the system disk if you install everything.
>
> If you change the registry value
>
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/ProgramFilesDir
> you can force quite a lot to a second disk.
>
> You still get some files in %SystemRoot%. As I recall, the main bulk of
> this ends up in the Installer directory. I think you can change some
> registry setting to have the Installer directory elsewhere, but I would
> recommend that you think twice before you make this step. On a new
> machine it may be less of an issue, but if you already have stuff there,
> you may mess up other programs.
>
> SP1 takes an even heavier toll on the Installer directory.
>
>
> --
> Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se
>
> Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books.mspx
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> http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx
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