Hi guys,

     I'm new to DNN and am quite excited by what it can do. I have installed the install version w/o a hitch, but tried again with Starter Kit and am having an interesting problem (described below):

VMWARE running Windows 2003, SQL Server 2000.

Using a fresh 2k3 image, I was unable to perform a custom or typical install on my system.

I follow the steps outlined from help references all over the place, but what ends up happening is that after I "Start w/o Debugging" from Visual Studio, the web page comes up with the installation wizard text. Problem is that the images do not come up. When I try to directly link myself to the images, a page comes up stating that "The stored procedure 'dbo.GetPortalAliasByPortalID' doesn't exist."

I doubled checked my file permissions, db user dbo permissions, web.config file, etc and reloaded snapshots tryign to poke around to no avail. I can still proceed through the steps until I hit the scripts installation page. Interesting enoguh, automatic install went through the installation successfully (albeit pictureless), but after that everything *seemed* normal.

Any help would be great! It does not sit well with me that I can only install it "automagically."

I found out what the problem was.

I needed to allow execution along with scripts permissions when setting up the IIS server.

I ran into another bug after that, but after reading this article, http://code.ericpiraux.be/2007/09/dotnetnuke-install-for-dummies.html, I gave up on customizing my install and am happy with automatic for the moment, unless someone has found a solution to the first error mentioned on the blog, which occurs during typical / custom install:

"Installing Database - Version 4.4.0...Upgrading Database to Version ERROR: See c:\inetpub\wwwroot\Providers\DataProviders\SqlDataProvider\04.04.00.log for more information...FAILURE 400 - Conversion from string "ERROR: See c:inetpubwwwrootProvi" to type 'Integer' is not valid."

Thanks for your help mitchel.