The Enterprise Edition can only be installed on Windows servers (NT, 2000 or 2003). Only the Personal and Developer editions are supported on workstations. For more info look up "Operating Systems Supported by the Editions of SQL Server 2000" in BOL.

Roman

>When I tried to install SQL2K on a French XP machine I got the message:
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>'Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition server component is not supported on this operating system. Only client components will be available for installation.'
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>I tried on a French 2000 Pro OS and I got the same message. So it seems that the language of the install disk (English) prevent the install. Is there a switch somewhere that I can set to have the install ignore this difference ? Or do I have to re-install an english OS (or get a french SQL2K) ?
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>Thanks, and have a nice week-end!