Error "not enough space to extract this package" seen when trying to install the SQL2005 download packages
There is a possiblility that after you've downloaded the SQL 2005 installation package to your local machine, during extraction of the files to your local drive you will get an error that looks like the following screenshot below. If you get this, it usually means that even though you might have told the extraction utility to put your files onto a different partition, it uses the system environment variable that points to your TEMP space first, and then moves them to your selected folder. Try performing these steps:
û Open up a windows command prompt by doing this: Click "Start" > "Run" and type CMD
û You'll need to create a new temporary folder on a system drive that has at least 1GB of free space. For this example we'll assume that's your D:\ drive
û After you've looked at My Computer and found a drive that works, type this in the Command window that is open: MD D:\temp
û Then type this in the command window: set TEMP=D:\temp and then also type this once it's done: set TMP=D:\temp
û Now execute the downloaded package again and see if you proceed past the "out of space" error. Make sure you run the package from within the same command window so it recognizes the different temporary partition that we just specified.
