I am writing an application that relies on Sql Express 2005 with
advanced services. I have just moved on to creating the setup and
realized this is a 230+MB install. Is there a smaller install available
that I can redistribute or a way to trim it down to just the feature(s)
I need (Fulltext search)?

Any would be appreciated.
Eric

hi Eric,
Eric Johnson wrote:
> I am writing an application that relies on Sql Express 2005 with
> advanced services. I have just moved on to creating the setup and
> realized this is a 230+MB install. Is there a smaller install
> available that I can redistribute or a way to trim it down to just
> the feature(s) I need (Fulltext search)?
>
> Any would be appreciated.
> Eric

if you rely on FTX you need to deploy the "full" Advanced Services setup,
which is way bigger then the SQLX minimal setup pakcage...
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I just extracted the files from the downloaded sqlexpr_adv.exe file (/x
parameter) and looked around at the various .msi files. So much space
is consumed by Report Services, Management Studio, etc. that I just
don't need.

It appears that sqlrun_sql.msi is the install I really need, coming it
at a much trimmer 66MB. I looked at the redistribution license and it
mentions that the setup has to be kept in-tact. I'm wondering if just
packaging the single .msi is "ok" - I'm keeping that msi in-tact...
Thoughts?

Andrea Montanari wrote:
> hi Eric,
> Eric Johnson wrote:
>> I am writing an application that relies on Sql Express 2005 with
>> advanced services. I have just moved on to creating the setup and
>> realized this is a 230+MB install. Is there a smaller install
>> available that I can redistribute or a way to trim it down to just
>> the feature(s) I need (Fulltext search)?
>>
>> Any would be appreciated.
>> Eric
>
> if you rely on FTX you need to deploy the "full" Advanced Services setup,
> which is way bigger then the SQLX minimal setup pakcage...

I think you'll find this won't work. the Windows Installer doesn't
understand the concept of multiple instances in a setup so the setup.exe
wrapper sets up the instance information in shared memory and logic in the
msi files reads this memory to find out how to set up the instance. If you
try to run the msi's without the setup wrapper, they won't run correctly.
That's why any other setup options aren't supported.

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"Eric Johnson" <ej@ejinnovations.com> wrote in message
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>I just extracted the files from the downloaded sqlexpr_adv.exe file (/x
>parameter) and looked around at the various .msi files. So much space is
>consumed by Report Services, Management Studio, etc. that I just don't
>need.
>
> It appears that sqlrun_sql.msi is the install I really need, coming it at
> a much trimmer 66MB. I looked at the redistribution license and it
> mentions that the setup has to be kept in-tact. I'm wondering if just
> packaging the single .msi is "ok" - I'm keeping that msi in-tact...
> Thoughts?
>
> Andrea Montanari wrote:
>> hi Eric,
>> Eric Johnson wrote:
>>> I am writing an application that relies on Sql Express 2005 with
>>> advanced services. I have just moved on to creating the setup and
>>> realized this is a 230+MB install. Is there a smaller install
>>> available that I can redistribute or a way to trim it down to just
>>> the feature(s) I need (Fulltext search)?
>>>
>>> Any would be appreciated.
>>> Eric
>>
>> if you rely on FTX you need to deploy the "full" Advanced Services setup,
>> which is way bigger then the SQLX minimal setup pakcage...