First Steps: Installing SQL Server?

Hello,

Thanks for reviewing my question. I am trying to install SQL Server 2005 but I keep running into the same error:

SQL Server Setup failed to obtain system account information for the ASPNET account. To proceed, reinstall the .NET Framework, and then run SQL Server Setup again.

The only documentation I find on this is configuring the issolation mode in IIS 6.0.

Any help on is will be appreciated.

Peter

PNKonstant wrote:

The only documentation I find on this is configuring the issolation mode in IIS 6.0.

Are you running IIS 6.0? If so, did you check to make sure it's not running the WWW service in IIS 5.0 isolation mode?

Otherwise, are you sure the .NET Framework 2.0 is installed on the machine?

Are you installing the release version of SQL Server 2005? Had there been a beta on the machine previously?|||

Hey Terri,

Thanks for reply. It's a Windows XP machine. The machine has VS 2005 installed on it. I think the version is 5.1. .NET Frameworks 2.0 is also installed on the PC. I noticed that there is no ASPNET user account.

Thanks for the help!

Peter

|||I think you should try to re-register ASP.NET on your machine (this shouldn't hurt anything). Run this command from c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\, which will recreate the ASPNET account (and will also set up the script mapping in IIS):

aspnet_regiis.exe -i

This is the documentation for that executable:ASP.NET IIS Registration Tool|||

Hey Terri,

Thanks for the help. I figured out that the PC was missing the ASPNET user account. I turned off my virus protection (McAfee) and repaired my .Net Framework 2.0 and wa la the user account was created - SQL server installed correctly. I spent half a day trying to figure out what was wrong but ends well.

Thanks again for the help!

Peter

|||Are you saying that McAfee was preventing the creation of the ASPNET user account?