Re: Installation Question

Chris A. Christopher ( (no email) )
Sun, 01 Mar 1998 15:47:26 -0500

At 12:41 PM 3/1/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Chris A. Christopher wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> we are having trouble installing the emerald software. We keep getting the
>> error:
>>
>> create device failed
>> please check the device settings and retry.
>>
>> We get this when we try to create the databases. We have tried many
>> different routes but have gotten nowhere. Any help would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>
>What is your device path? Does the path exist? Does
>the file exist?
>
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the device name is EmeraldDev
the filename is c:\mssql\data\emerald.dat

The file does exist.

Is there anything that needs to be set-up in SQL?
The docs refer to a emerald.ini file which I can not find anywhere on my
system. DO I need to create it?

Thanks
-- Chris