I see a problem when trying to use the rt_msde2000a include.

The problem seems to be the way SB6 starts and then waits for the MSDE setup.exe.

I am trying to install additional INSTANCE of MSDE. (Yes, I know I should be moving on
to SQL Express <G>)

I modified the sbi to allow the extra instance (named tester).

Lets call the installer built with SB6 program "A"
This starts and waits for the MS setup.exe program "B"

The problem seems to be that prog "B" does not like having some other program waiting
for it to complete. After a minute or two, the MSDE installer simply stops updating
its progress bar (saying about 4 seconds remaining...). It sits here forever...

I looked with TaskManager and both A and B are showing "un-responsive" . So, I kill
the setup.exe from within TaskManager, and and the installer "finished" window shows
up OK.

Even though I had manually killed the MSDE setup.exe program, it had in fact completed
the install of the new instance. I was able to start the new instance ( using net
start mssql$tester).

A work-around that works, is to uncheck the "[ ] wait for program to close" where the
sbi file has the "Run Program...".

Then I also had to comment out the line..
Delete Tree %MSDETMP%

I will have to later delete the 63Megs of temp install files.

The install was being tested on Windows XP Home.

Has anyone else had a similar problem?

John Griffiths
Perth, Australia