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From: "Bruce Hooley" <bruce_hoo...@sil.org>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 17:28:43 +1000
Local: Wed, May 20 2009 3:28 am
Subject: Re: [FLEx] Re: Dell Mini 9
Thanks for your response, but the problem seems to be not a lack of memory, but the fact that C: is an SSD drive. I don't know anything about SSDs, but it would seem that they must store material as compressed files which the SQL installer can't handle. So unless there is a way to install the relevant files to some other location, it looks like FW just won't work on the Mini 9??
Bruce
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From: Cameron and Valerie Hamm To: flex-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 1:36 PM Subject: [FLEx] Re: Dell Mini 9 Bruce,
They do make larger flash drives (called Solid State Drives or SSD) in capacities like 16, 32, 64, 128, and even 256 GB, but they are fairly expensive especially on the high end of capacity. But you could upgrade to a 32 GB SSD and have no problem with memory size being a factor for installation of FLEx.
Cam
From: flex-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:flex-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruce Hooley
Hi. I've just tried to install FieldWorks 5.4.1 on a Dell Mini 9 Netbook which has an 8Gb C: drive and an 8Gb Kingston SD card for a D: drive. I installed FW on D:, since C: is already getting fairly full. All went well until right at the end when I got the message:
"SQL Server Setup cannot install files to the compressed or encrypted folder: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\. To continue, make sure that your installation directories are not compressed or encrypted, or specify a different directory, and then run SQL Server Setup again."
SQL Server Database Services was the only thing that failed, but it promised that if I tried to run FLEX etc it would crash. It was quite correct and I got the message Installation of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express SP2 failed, and Flex did crash when I tried to run it.
Actually everything installed except, I think, the Support Services bit.
But it was trying to install the SQL stuff on C: drive, and there was no option to put it anywhere else. So is it not possible to run FW on the Dell Mini--at least on the one I have. I see that the standard Mini comes with a 160Gb hard drive, but I don't have that, only an 8Gb (flash??) drive. Whatever that drive is, at least it is not supposed to have any moving parts.
Is there any way to get round this problem?
Thanks for any feedback you might have.
Bruce Hooley
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