MSDE 1.0 Unattended install fails on MS Small Business Server 2000

[euman]

MSDE 1.0 Unattended install fails on MS Small Business Server 2000

I am using MSDEX86.EXE with standard unattend.iss file (with no changes)
to install MSDE on MS Small Business Server 2000, using standard batch command

start /wait msdex86 -s -a -f1 "c:\unattend.iss"

Yet install fails repeatedly very early on in process (judging by contents of the log file - pasted below.)
Incidentally - I believe the statement in the 3rd last line of the log is false - and to be just another way of saying that the install failed - am I wrong? Microsoft says that this system (MS Small Business Server 2000 - in fact, all MS OS's after Win 95) supports MSDE 1.0.

I have used this same exact approach successfully on:
Win 98, Win 2000 Pro, Win 2000 Advanced Server, Win ME, Win XP, Win XP Pro

Searching the web, I find that failure with the reported code:
"Process Exit Code: (1060) The specified service does not exist as an installed service."
is quite common - but no one has clearly shown the resolution.

Have tried install after shutting down some services such as
IIS Admin Service
Anti-Virus

http://WWW Publishing

MS SMTP

with no luck.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!


========================================================================================
14:38:22 Begin Setup
14:38:22 7.00.677
14:38:22 Mode=Silent
14:38:22 ModeType=NORMAL
14:38:22 CMDLINE=(Wrap Iss=C:\WINNT\setup~0.iss)
14:38:22 g_szIssPath=C:\WINNT\setup~0.iss
14:38:22 ValueFTS returned: 0
14:38:22 ValuePID returned: 0
14:38:22 ValueLic returned: 0
14:38:22 GetDefinitionEx returned: 0, Extended: 0xf000000
14:38:22 System: Small Business Server
14:38:22 SQL Server ProductType: MSDE [0x4]
14:38:22 Begin Action: SetupInitialize
14:38:22 End Action SetupInitialize
14:38:22 Fixed install: 0
14:38:22 Begin Action: CheckRequirements
14:38:22 Platform ID: 0xf000
14:38:22 Version: 5.0.2195
14:38:22 Processor Architecture: x86 (Pentium)
14:38:22 File Version - C:\WINNT\system32\shdocvw.dll: 5.50.4937.800
14:38:22 ComputerName: AFSERVER01
14:38:22 User Name: Administrator
14:38:22 IsAllAccessAllowed returned: 1
14:38:22 C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\_ISTMP7.DIR\scm.exe -Silent 1 -Action 6 -Timeout 5000 -Service SNMP
14:38:22 Process Exit Code: (1060) The specified service does not exist as an installed service.

14:38:22 OS Language: 0x809
14:38:22 End Action CheckRequirements
14:38:22 Begin Action: Detection
14:38:22 End Action Detection
14:38:22 Begin Action: ODBCLocked
14:38:22 End Action ODBCLocked
14:38:22 SQL Server 7.0 MSDE is not supported on Small Business Server.
14:38:22 Action CleanUpInstall:
14:38:22 Installation Failed.
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[euman]

OK - I'm withdrawing, and requesting you close the the question!

When you search on the Web and you find statements like "MSDE works with all flavours of windows", and you have actually installed MSDE on Win 2000 Pro and Win 2000 Advanced Server, you immediately expect that it will also install on Win 2000 Small Business Server!

However, now that I realise that Win 2000 SBS ships with SQL Server 2000, (which you can optionally install when you first install SBS), it makes sense that MSDE would not install - IF you had already installed SQL Server 2000.

In my case, this was not the so - SQL Server 2000 was not already installed.
That being the case - it is still possible (speculation only), that MS do not want you to even have the possibility to install MSDE on a OS for which they included SQL Server 2000.

So, question withdrawn, and thanks.

(PS: hope this was also of some use/will save time for someone else!)