Has anyone any experience of installing either M

[keithd]

Has anyone any experience of installing either MSDE 2000 or the full personal edition of SQL Server 2000 on a Tablet PC running XP? (In this case a Compaq TC1000).

Any attempt to run the MSDE installation just seems to drop out, and then installing the full edition gets so far, then crashes with the following errors writing to the registry..........

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An error occurred while setting the registry value for: Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\ClientSetup\CurrentVersion
16:51:42 An error occurred while creating one or more registry entries. Please see C:\WINDOWS\\\sqlstp.log for details. The problem could be caused by a low registry quota condition.
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As far as I am aware, the registry is handled implicitly by XP, and I don't know how to alter quotas - anyone able to help with any ideas?

Thanks - Keith

[Dennis Rice]

Just a quick thought:
Are you logged in as a member of the Administrators group? I know of several TC1k users who are running SQL server with no problems...... This looks like a user rights issue

[markpayton]

I agree with Dennis. I've installed the fulll version on my TC1000 with no problem, but I did it as Administrator. The registry setting in question should not be writable by a non-administrator (or perhaps a power user).

Mark

[robertgmullen]

My machine runs SQL 2000 just fine. As the others have said, interactive account privs are very important. I would also recommend not starting SQL Server with Windows unless you have to. I only run it when needed for development work. Having it start with the OS will slow things down noticeably.