I came across a problem while I was trying to install SQL Server 2005 on a virtual server. First Windows installer doesn’t allow to install through a remote connection. So I had to copy all the installation disks data to the server hard disk. And then when I tried to run the setup it gave me this error "There was an unexpected failure during the setup wizard". I was clueless and finally found that if it is installing from a network share or a hard disk the files must be properly structured. The server disk (disk 1) data must be copied to a folder with name Servers and the tools disk (disk 2) data must be copied to a folder with name Tools. These two folders must be in a one folder root as well. Then it worked fine :) Hope this will help ....
Related MSDN KB article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916760
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