August 30, 2014 at 9:04 am
I was loading up a laptop this morning with SQL Express 2014 (with advanced services) and ran into the following error about halfway through the installation:
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The following error has occurred:
A network error occurred while attempting to read from the file: c:\{TEMP FOLDER LOCATION}\1033_ENU_LP\x64\Setup\x64\SQL 2012 Native Client x64.msi
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I clicked OK, Retry, then ultimately selected Cancel and the install moved on. Once it was done I noticed my SQL instance didn't get installed - nor did any of the tools.
Odd, so I rebooted and re-ran the install. Same message came up, so I dug down into that directory. Within it there was a SQLNCLI.msi, but not the file above it was looking for. I made a copy of SQLNCLI.msi and renamed it to 'SQL 2012 Native Client x64.msi' (the file the installer was looking for) and the error went away, everything installed just fine.
It looks like someone else experienced a similar issue here:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1284965-391-1.aspx
...but I couldn't find any other documentation about this issue. I wanted to put this post out there in case someone else runs into the same thing. The SQL Express install file I have is from April 2014, so I'm not sure if MS has updated their installation process to point to the correct file.
Hope this helps!
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