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Posted by Jean-Marc Blaise on 11/28/63 11:57
Hi Erland,
No problem for the ProgramFilesDir, I just keep posted so that people are
aware of some side effects :-).
Regarding the disk cost, it's confusing, let me tell why: you choose for
example Client Components / and the first sub choice. This gives you about
47 Mb. Then, going to Disk Cost, it says: 467 Mb ! Yeah, about 10 times. I
figure out that this is linked to the temporary files, msi file saved ...
And when you install only this, it seems to install many things: Workstation
Components for instance (at least it sets up some things related to this
area); the setup even tells "Removing applications", and you see your disk
storage decrease...
I know that the installer has some habit to copy twice (sometimes 3 times)
the package: I experimented one time the impossibility to remove anything
from my computer and had to play with registries to get back control of my C
drive. In not so old times, 5 Gb were fine on C: drive, now you should use
at least 20 gb to be safe. Unfortunately, on my labtop, I cannot reformat,
so am unable to install MSSQL2K5, and keep the old MSSQL2K.
Regards,
JM
"Erland Sommarskog" <esquel@sommarskog.se> a ιcrit dans le message de
news:Xns9832D1FC7B328Yazorman@127.0.0.1...
> Jean-Marc Blaise (nobody@nowhere.com) writes:
> > The trick to change the registry value of ProgramFilesDir cannot work
> > because it breaks Outlook Express. In fact in the registries, you find
> > hard coded Program Files for programs as well as %ProgramFiles%. So I
> > used some tool to repartition my disk ...
>
> Sorry, I forgot to say that I know if it is supported to change
> ProgramFilesDir. When I have tried this for SQL 2005 installations, it
> has been virtual machines with very little on.
>
> Still, I'm surprised that it would break Outlook Express. My hinch
> is that ProgramFilesDir mainly serves as a default for new installations.
> Once something has been installed, it should not be affected by
> a change in ProgramFilesDir. But I am not in expert on Windows, so I
> could be wrong on that point. (And I'm too coward to try the experiment
> on my real machine. :-)
>
> > I find the setup pretty uncomprehensible, you don't know exactly despite
> > the Disk Cost how much you will install in the system drive, and the
> > path you select. I encountered twice setup problems (abort or willing to
> > report to microsoft)... Basically, it seems to me I installed about 800
> > Mb on both drives, not selecting Analysis Services.
>
> I have shoehorned in SQL 2005 on virtual machines with low disk space,
> and I don't recall any major mismatch with Disk Cost. But it goes without
> saying that if Disk Cost says that you will have one megabyte left, you
> should do some cleanup just in case.
>
> > Then, installing SP1 ... took me from the system drive about 1 Gb, but
> > moreover that annoys me is the time it takes to apply SP1: about 45
> > minutes. I am very surprised and disappointed about all these
> > disagrements, and I find even Oracle has made much progress on there
> > installation gui (using Oracle 10gR2).
>
> Yes, the SP1 takes up too much space on the system disk. It saves a lot
> of install packages, but most packages are saved twice. Add to that a
> PatchCache. Some of this stuff has to do with roiling back a service
> pack, but you cannot roll back SP1.
>
> I have a feeling that the SP1 setup was a bit rashed, because they
> wanted to get Database Mirroring out of the door. There are a couple
> bugs filed on the SP1 setup (including more than one from yours truly),
> and I think several have been resolved as "looking into fix for SP2".
>
> In any case, it is quite clear that if you are of the school that
> the system drive should be small, you should re-think, because that is
> not Microsoft's approach, but it appears they will continute to cram
> things into Windows/Installer, and force thing into ProgramFilesDir.
>
> --
> 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
> Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at
> http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx
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