MSDE 2000a Deployment Issues

I need to deploy MSDE 2000a with a custom app built in VB6. I found the
setup package to add MSDE 1.0 through the Package & Deployment Wizard, but
the link I found for MSDE 2000 goes to the same article as 1.0. I've also
seen a lot of info on using merge modules to deploy MSDE 2000, but I'm
clueless about them. What is the best (and hopefully easiest) way to deploy
MSDE 2000 with a custom app built with VB6 using the Package & Deployment
Wizard? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My advice is don't.
Package the setup program from MS, configure the setup.ini file the way you
want it and get the user to run it. Every other option seems to end up in
pain at present. Much better story coming for SQL Express.
HTH,
Greg Low [MVP]
MSDE Manager SQL Tools
www.whitebearconsulting.com
"pbb" <pbb@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I need to deploy MSDE 2000a with a custom app built in VB6. I found the
> setup package to add MSDE 1.0 through the Package & Deployment Wizard, but
> the link I found for MSDE 2000 goes to the same article as 1.0. I've also
> seen a lot of info on using merge modules to deploy MSDE 2000, but I'm
> clueless about them. What is the best (and hopefully easiest) way to
> deploy
> MSDE 2000 with a custom app built with VB6 using the Package & Deployment
> Wizard? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
|||Okay, so it sounds like what you're saying is that it's best to include 2
setup programs? First have the user run the setup.exe that comes with MSDE
(with the customized ini file), and then have them run the setup package for
the custom app?
"Greg Low [MVP]" wrote:

> My advice is don't.
> Package the setup program from MS, configure the setup.ini file the way you
> want it and get the user to run it. Every other option seems to end up in
> pain at present. Much better story coming for SQL Express.
> HTH,
> --
> Greg Low [MVP]
> MSDE Manager SQL Tools
> www.whitebearconsulting.com
> "pbb" <pbb@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:DDFFD02B-301D-4273-B32B-D6CCFAB50A76@.microsoft.com...
>
>
|||Yep
"pbb" <pbb@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Okay, so it sounds like what you're saying is that it's best to include 2
> setup programs? First have the user run the setup.exe that comes with
> MSDE
> (with the customized ini file), and then have them run the setup package
> for
> the custom app?
> "Greg Low [MVP]" wrote: