failure installing SQL Server 2005

I am trying to install SQL Server Sept 2005 on Windows Server Enterprise Ed. 2003 which was just freshly installed on a new partition. I downloaded files from a DVD and when I click on install.exe it checks the system configuration: everything is OK (all checks passed) but then I get a window/message:

"The installation package could not be opened. Verify that the package exists and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows installation package."

It is a DVD I got as a part of my MSDN Pro subscription from MS. What else can I do about it?

Thanks.Hi,

did you try to copy the installation files to hdd and install from there? You also may ask the msdn support:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/support/default.aspx|||Are you installing on a virtual machine by any chance? Andrew Watt MVP - InfoPath wrote in message news:2a922efb-0221-4c8d-9771-2ebb57bfaa3b@.discussions.microsoft.com... >I am trying to install SQL Server Sept 2005 on Windows Server Enterprise
> Ed. 2003 which was just freshly installed on a new partition. I
> downloaded files from a DVD and when I click on install.exe it checks
> the system configuration: everything is OK (all checks passed) but then
> I get a window/message: >
> "The installation package could not be opened. Verify that the package
> exists and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to
> verify that this is a valid Windows installation package." >
> It is a DVD I got as a part of my MSDN Pro subscription from MS. What
> else can I do about it? >
> Thanks. >
>|||Thanks,

The installation files are on HDD as of now. I am clicking on install.exe which is on the partition. I do not quite remember how they ended up there when I first used a DVD to install it and something went wrong, I aborted the attempt then but it gave me no other choice. Perhaps I felt that some other issues could have been responsible. I just installed the Win Server 2003 and some drivers were still missing, so I spent the next two days hunting for them.

Going to msdn support is the last resort. I will do it when all other avenues are exhausted.

Thanks again.|||No, it is a physical partition. I have already installed the SQL Server 2005 yesterday after I posted my last message. I do not know what the problem was initially, most likely the fact that the WINSer2003 did not have all set of drivers and therefore the download could not even access the Internet.

Anyway, I am using this to ask another question. My work now is hampered by the fact that I could not find a driver for my Dell 2001FP monitor to exercise the full resolution of 1600x1200. The driver I found provides only 1280x1024 as the highest.

I contacted Dell and they said that neither Dell nor Microsoft have drivers for Windows 2003 Server.

I am thinking about writing a driver myself but with no experience in drivers and total lack of concept do not know where to start. Anybody could offer any pointers?

Thanks.