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samrat
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94 Posts

Posted - 2003-02-03 : 19:37:46
Greetings,

I am trying to run service pack 3 (desktop installation) to upgrade by existing MSDE 2000 Installation.

Following are the steps that i m following
1. Change the sa Password to Testpwd
2. Stop the services on the machine
3. Run the following command

Setup.exe /upgradesp SQLRUN INSTANCENAME= SECURITYMODE=SQL
UPGRADEUSER=TestUser UPGRADEPWD=Testpwd

I am leaving InstanceName parameter as blank as i wanna run the service pack 3 on default installation of MSDE

Can anyone see or suggest from what i m doing that might not work ?

Any help would be appreciated.

Samrat

Edited by - samrat on 02/03/2003 21:53:17

timmy
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

1242 Posts

Posted - 2003-02-12 : 23:41:55
Have you tried specifying the .msi file to use? I have upgraded about 5 installations of MSDE over the past couple of weeks and this method worked fine.
Setup.exe /upgradesp c:\SQL2KSP3\MSDE\Setup\SqlRun01.msi

Check out the readme file that came with SP3 - it's all detailed in there.


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ValterBorges
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

1429 Posts

Posted - 2003-03-04 : 19:39:11
Is the error your getting?

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=MSDE+2000+The+instance+name+specified+is+invalid.&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=e9%23gRXyxCHA.680%40TK2MSFTNGP11&rnum=1

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