Day 2 of installation on my web server: SQL Server 2000.
Installing the server itself is a breeze, not that it was ever hard, but after doing it repeatedly the last 4 years, it's gotten to the point where I don't even read the dialogs anymore. And then I tried to install SQL Server Reporting Services.
- start install
- click "okay" for component update, install required components.
- click next
- VS.NET isn't installed, is the ONLY result in the system prerequisites check.
- click next
- now setup starts, click next
- registration info, click next
- feature selection: look through the options, mark some "run all from my computer", some "not available", etc. Nowhere near as bad as Office.
- click next
- choose service account, click next
- choose root directory for Report Server and root for Report Manager. Don't redirect the default Web home pge to the report manager, of course, this is a www server, not intranet.
- uncheck "use ssl" because I don't have ssl set up yet...
- specify account to run under, click next
- THEN find out that you have to have SQL Server 2000 with SP3a. Doesn't that fall under "required components" or "prerequisites"? Yes, it does and that was over a dozen clicks ago.
- So then I download SP3a (at 4.88KB/sec), try to install it. No dice, I am told that I have to reboot because of a setup in progress. grr.
- Install sp3a. cool, it doesn't tell me to reboot.
- Try to install Reporting Services.
- No dice, I apparently DID need to reboot. grr
- go through all of the steps listed above (almost all), then a few more to configure the mail server, etc.
- "Setup is now installing Reporting Services. Installation may take several minutes."
hmmm.. you think?
I started this at 2:30... it is now 6:50.
but I am finished :)