What's up with the "Reboot" step?

Question

The installer (on my machine) has a third from the last step called "Reboot". I assumed this was a marker to tell the user the installer would need to reboot at that stage, but on my install it did not reboot. It actually quickly went through that step and actually said something like "Installing Reboot...".

Answer 1

Hi Qythyx,
Please refer to Heath Stewart's blog on the Collect Tool for information on collecting install logs.  If you have any other related questions let me know.
Thanks.

Qaiser Sadiq (MSFT)

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MSFT SDET - Deployment Technologies Group

Answer 2

Hi Qythyx,
The following answer was provided by Jason S. Hartman - MSFT:

The "Reboot" component ensures that the .NET 2.0 SP2 package has been installed and committed to the system before allowing setup to progress to the SQL Server Express installation.  Typically this is only an issue for Vista+ where the .NET 2.0 SP2 package is a Windows Update package that may require a reboot to finish (during the "Configuring Updates" screen before or after the actual reboot).  If the .NET 2.0 SP2 package is not committed to the system before SQL is installed, the SQL install will fail.

If you've installed .NET 2.0 SP2, or if you're installing on an OS where this package is delivered using standard MSI packages, it's typical that the check performed by this Reboot component will indicate that a reboot is not actually required and installation will continue.

Hope this helps!

Thanks.

-Qaiser Sadiq (MSFT)

 

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MSFT SDET - Deployment Technologies Group