Workarounds for installation errors after SQL Server 2008 modifies the installation path

1. If you modify the installation path after installing the error

For example, to modify "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL server" to "D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server "

The error details are: "The Instancesharedwowdir command line value is not specified. This value must was specified when the Instanceshareddir value is specified. "

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First: Do not modify the path, use the default installation, and finally confirm that the installation will show the path of the Configurationfile.ini file, to this path to copy the installation configuration file to another path, such as D:\, and then exit the installation

Second: Use Notepad to open this file and replace the "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server" lookup with "D:\Program Files\Microsoft" according to your actual needs. SQL Server"Save after

Finally: on the command line go to the installation directory, start the installation, if it is Vista, remember to run the command line with administrator privileges, enter the following command:

Setup.exe/action=install/configurationfile=d:\configurationfile.ini

2. Do not use Autorun installation after inserting the disc, install with command line! CD into the root directory of the installation CD, enter the command:
Setup.exe/installshareddir= "D:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SQL Server\ \"/installsharedwowdir= "D:\ \program Files (x86) \\Microsoft SQL Server\ \ "
installation, where Installshareddir is the path to the x64 part installation, Installsharedwowdir is the path to the x32 part installation.

Remember not to use the default setup.exe on the way to install, once the installation of the supporting files, even if you quit the installation program, run the above command statement can not change the installation path ! If the support files are already installed, you can try uninstalling any related items in the Qing Guang sql Server in the control panel, but there is no guarantee that they will work.
(For the reasons, I suspect that Microsoft should first copy the installation support files at the time of installation, and then use the default path because the path was not set at all.) Once completed, the installation path cannot be changed, otherwise it will conflict with the supporting file path, so only one gangster to go to the end, and the command line installation of the first to specify the path, in fact, the replication support file is specified in the path. ）

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Workarounds for installation errors after SQL Server 2008 modifies the installation path