Re: Not on the C: Volume Please

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Thanks Geoff. I was able to squeeze enough space.

It is interesting to note that upon selection, when I checked associated
disk cost, I was left with ~39MB of available disk space on the C volume.
Once the installation was complete available disk space on C went to ~600MB.
Seems that the installation requires some temporary disk space also.
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Thanks,

Scott H.


"Geoff N. Hiten" wrote:

You have very limited control over where SQL will put its executable files.
The system volume footprint of SQL Server is only controlable within certain
limits. A lot of the components are going to go on C: and you really cannot
chnage that. I would image your system and repartition the drives to
enlarge C:

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Geoff N. Hiten
Senior SQL Infrastructure Consultant
Microsoft SQL Server MVP




"Scott H." <ScottH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Folks,

I have a server with 2 volumes: C and D. I do not have enough disk space
to
install SQL2K5 due to insufficient disk space on the C drive. Even though
I
specifically state during the install to not install anything on the C
drive,
it still wants to. I go through each and every feature selection and
change
the installation path, but to no avail. it seems to need the C drive.

So my question is this, is it possible to instruct SQL2K5 install to not
put
anything on the C drive? Perhaps a registry setting?

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Thanks,

Scott H.


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