Error 1901

[Evgeny]

Hi!

I'm trying to install MSAS 1.0.509 on MS Windows 2000
Proffesional. Every time I start the installation I
receive the error message:

Error1901.Error attemting to read from the source
installation database: c:\winnt\installer\ef4e7.msi

And every time the name of the file is different:
ef4e7.msi, ef4ea.msi, ef4ed.msi.
It happens on different machines with the same OS listed
above.

Is there any solution for my problem? I suppose it's
because of system path (c:\winnt) but not sure.

Thank you in advance,
Evgeny

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I can't find much useful about this reference. One reference indicated a
difficulty reading the CD which I'm having trouble thinking about in terms
of a downloaded installation.

Trying a new download would be one thing to try.

Your system path is typical for a Windows 2000 machine, or an XP upgrade
over Windows 2000--that shouldn't be an issue at all--I've done many
installs on such machines.

 

[Guest]

fresh downloaded installation works without any problems!
it's really strange cause "bad" version installs on
Windows XP computer with positive result!

anyway thank you for so useful advise!

cheers,
Evgeny

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I'm glad it worked--can you try a file compare between the two downloads, if
you have both around?

rename each of them to a short (8.3) name which you can keep straight which
is which, and place them both in the same folder.

Go to a command prompt in that folder and do:

fc file1 file2

and see whether FileCompare finds any differences between the two files.
(I'm assuming that they are both the same build--the post February 16th .509
build)

If it does, don't post the differences--but that would seem to imply
corruption of some kind.

If there is no difference, perhaps simply attempting the install another
time was the charm.

 

[Guest]

yes, there is a lot of differences between these files, so
the problem is solved!

thanx again!

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Interesting--it'd be good to know what caused the corruption--perhaps
there's a virus or trojan still active.