sneak preview WAS 6.40 installation hangs

Folks,

I encounter the following problem while trying to install

the WAS 6.40 Sneak Preview: during the installation (that

is, executing sapinst.exe), I cannot get past the step

"MaxDB Database Internal Installation (internal processing)"

When sapinst.exe reaches this step, CPU usage goes up to

100% and the installation doesn't continue (sapinst.exe

doesn't come back for a couple of hours). So finally I

cancel the installation and do an uninstall and try to

re-install. I've done this 3 or 4 times but am having

always the same probolem.

This is a fresh installation on a W2K SP3, Pentium M

1,4GHz, 1GB RAM, 40GB HD with j2sdk1.4.2_4 -- so I

shouldn't have any system requirement issues (IMO).

I don't get an error message. Here are the last couple

of lines the LOG window contains:

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extracting: -rw-r r 338944 2003-11-21 11:20:53 symbols/systemrc.pdb

extracting: -rw-r r 388096 2003-11-21 13:22:39 symbols/TableDefC.pdb

extracting: -rw-r r 388096 2003-11-21 13:04:12 symbols/tracesort.pdb

checking unpacked archive... ok

installation of MaxDB Server finished successfully Fr, Apr 30, 2004 at 09:06:53

INFO 2004-04-30 09:07:06 [ianxbservi.cpp:679]

CIaNtServices::start(const map<iastring,iastring>&)

The service 'XServer' started successfully on host 'Local'.

INFO 2004-04-30 09:07:18 [synxcnodut.cpp:285]

CSyNodeUtils::createNodeWithType(iastring,bool,ISyNode::eNodeType,iastring)

Creating directory C:\sapdb\J2E\sapdata.

INFO 2004-04-30 09:07:18 [iaxxbnodes.cpp:1293]

CIaOsNodes::createANode()

File system node C:\sapdb\J2E\sapdata with type DIRECTORY created successfully.

INFO 2004-04-30 09:07:18 [synxcnodut.cpp:285]

CSyNodeUtils::createNodeWithType(iastring,bool,ISyNode::eNodeType,iastring)

Creating directory C:\sapdb\J2E\saplog.

INFO 2004-04-30 09:07:18 [iaxxbnodes.cpp:1293]

CIaOsNodes::createANode()

File system node C:\sapdb\J2E\saplog with type DIRECTORY created successfully.

INFO 2004-04-30 09:07:18 [iaxxbnodes.cpp:477]

CIaOsNodes::nodesDo()

All file system node operations of table tADA_Files processed successfully.

INFO 2004-04-30 09:09:01 [synxcnodut.cpp:339]

CSyNodeUtils::createNodeWithType(iastring,bool,ISyNode::eNodeType,iastring)

Creating file C:\Program Files\sapinst_instdir\j2ee-sneak-preview\install\sapdblogmode.log.

INFO 2004-04-30 09:09:01 [iaxxbrunas.cpp:204]

CIaRunAsUser::run_impl()

See 'c:\sapdb\programs\pgm\dbmcli.exe -d J2E -n mweidman0400 -u CONTROL,CONTROL -uUTL CONTROL,CONTROL util_execute set log auto overwrite on' output in 'sapdblogmode.log'.

INFO 2004-04-30 09:09:01 [iaxxbrunas.cpp:275]

CIaRunAsUser::run_impl()

'c:\sapdb\programs\pgm\dbmcli.exe -d J2E -n mweidman0400 -u CONTROL,CONTROL -uUTL CONTROL,CONTROL util_execute set log auto overwrite on' returned with '0'.

INFO 2004-04-30 09:09:05 [syxxccuren.hpp:350]

CSyCurrentProcessEnvironmentImpl::setWorkingDirectory(iastring)

Working directory changed to C:/sapdb/programs/pgm.

INFO 2004-04-30 09:09:05 [syxxccuren.hpp:350]

CSyCurrentProcessEnvironmentImpl::setWorkingDirectory(iastring)

Working directory changed to C:/Program Files/sapinst_instdir/j2ee-sneak-preview/install.

INFO 2004-04-30 09:09:06 [syxxccuren.hpp:350]

CSyCurrentProcessEnvironmentImpl::setWorkingDirectory(iastring)

Working directory changed to C:/sapdb/programs/pgm.

INFO 2004-04-30 09:09:07 [syxxccuren.hpp:350]

CSyCurrentProcessEnvironmentImpl::setWorkingDirectory(iastring)

Working directory changed to C:/Program Files/sapinst_instdir/j2ee-sneak-preview/install.

WARNING 2004-04-30 09:10:18 [sapinst.cpp:1181]

CSapInst::cancel()

Installation canceled by user request.

Exit status of child: 1

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Any ideas ?

thanks,

Matthias