Re: Unattended.iss

From: John Bell (jbellnewsposts_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/27/03 

Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 21:00:59 +0100

Hi

I am not sure that you will find anything on orca as that is just a tool to
use in this instance. What you will probably need to do is make yourself
familiar with Windows Installer and creating MSI files.

The easiest solution (as stated) is to ship the MSDE setup utility and run
it from your installation passing the appropriate parameters.

John

"Giacomo" <00avoidspam@solsticepoint.com> wrote in message
news:e1uDXsFVDHA.2228@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> John,
> I presumed that was the case. I'm totally unfamiliar with Orca and vastly
> more familiar with the actual Setup.vbp that comes with Visual Studio 6.
I
> also have a .NET Studio. Is there a wizard in .NET that will give me some
> additional detail on the steps involved with the merge modules? Am I
stuck
> with just the documentation from the site below on script based merging?
I
> opened Orca. It looks like a steep learning curve.
> OF PARTICULAR NOTE!!!!!
> Looking around, I notice that much of this was updated this month as
well.
> Is it possible these are working better than they did when they were
> introduced? I notice much of the beta testing questions for MDAC 2.7 were
> devoted to the merge modules. [quote from the SP3a readme: "The Setup
> utilities for new applications should be written to call the MSDE 2000
Setup
> utility instead of directly consuming the MSDE 2000 merge modules."]
> additional info:.............................................
> http://dbforums.com/arch/71/2003/7/836562
>
> From link above:............................... QUOTE BEGINS
> Bill Cheng
> Jul 8 2003 14:34 Hi Ramon,
>
> I do understand your situation and how frustrating it is for you. I
> have
> also seen a lot of issues using merge modules.
>
> Regarding releasing a new set of Merge Modules, currently I do not
> have
> much information on this for the next major release but we do
> discourage
> customers from using Merge modules at this time due to the known
> issues.
>
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill Cheng
> Microsoft Support Engineer
>
> END OF QUOTE
> link above is http://dbforums.com/arch/71/2003/7/836562
> Wishing now I'd followed along a little closer. Looks like I need to
> figure this one out. What I need is a book on the ORCA database
> structures - the GUID references etc.
> Giac
> SETUP Stuff:
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/distsql/distsql_84xl.asp
> Giacomo
>
> "John Bell" <jbellnewsposts@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:3f23e965$0$25431$afc38c87@news.easynet.co.uk...
> > Hi
> >
> > I think you may require script based merging, see
> >
> >
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsql2k/html/sql_embeddingmsde.asp?frame=true
> >
> > John
> >
> > "Giacomo" <00avoidspam@solsticepoint.com> wrote in message
> > news:eAVydz2UDHA.2288@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > > I also a came across the embedding process. Is this a more efficient
> > > process than the redistribution?
> > >
> >
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsql2k/html/sql_embeddingmsde.asp?frame=true
> > >
> > > "Giacomo" <00avoidspam@solsticepoint.com> wrote in message
> > > news:OnK0ao2UDHA.2508@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > > > Unattended.iss exists with MSDE corresponding to SQL 7. Is there a
> > > > corresponding item distributed with SQL 2000?
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q231/9/23.asp&NoWebContent=1
> > > >
> > > > Giacomo
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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