Business Intelligence Development Studio 2005 Installation Error

Hello,

I'm trying to install the Business Intelligence Component ONLY of the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition. We are interested in only giving the BI Development Studio to a User to allow to create reports. The documentation makes it seems as if this is possible - am I wrong?

It allows me to walk through and select this component, and then it fails and I receive the following error:

There was an unexpected failure during the setup wizard. You may review the setup logs and/or click the help button for more information.

For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=20476&ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=9.00.1399.06&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=50000&EvtType=packageengine%5cinstallpackageaction.cpp%40InstallToolsAction.11%40sqls%3a%3aInstallPackageAction%3a%3aperform%400x643

When I followed the link and received "Sorry no additional information".

The System Requirements all meet - with the exception of the min. hardware I receive a warning message. Would this hault the execution?

Any help/advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!

what do the install logs say?|||I only quickly reviewed the logs and didn't see anything that was truly helpful...not sure what to look for?|||

Went back over the logs and the following seems to be an issue, just not sure how to fix it:

Running: InstallToolsAction.11 at: 2006/5/23 16:41:59
Error: Action "InstallToolsAction.11" threw an exception during execution. Error information reported during run:
Target collection includes the local machine.
Fatal Exception caught while installing package: "11"
Error Code: 0x80070002 (2)
Windows Error Text: The system cannot find the file specified.

Source File Name: sqlchaining\sqlprereqpackagemutator.cpp
Compiler Timestamp: Tue Aug 9 01:14:20 2005
Function Name: sqls::SqlPreReqPackageMutator::modifyRequest
Source Line Number: 196

- Context --
sqls::InstallPackageAction::perform

WinException caught while installing package. : 1603
Error Code: 0x80070643 (1603)
Windows Error Text: Fatal error during installation.

Source File Name: packageengine\installpackageaction.cpp
Compiler Timestamp: Fri Jul 1 01:28:25 2005
Function Name: sqls::InstallPackageAction::perform
Source Line Number: 167

- Context --
sqls::InstallPackageAction::perform

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does this log exist? SQLSetup[xxxx]_[ComputerName]_WI.log.

Also, I did successfully install SQL 2005 BI Studio by itself without the other sql related components. It's on my alienware box so hardware is no problem. You had me curious as I have never tried this before :)

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Yes I did. It's a pretty large file - do you want to see it, or just a portion of it?

We were trying to install the software from the server. Some of what I've been able to dig up is that it sometimes causes issues, so we are going to try to install it from the cd directly today. I'll keep you posted.

Thanks!