[booster]

Hi there !

I have the following pop-up message when I lauch the setup.exe of BES 4.1 on my BES 4.0 (service pack 1) in order to migrate it :

"Setup cannot locate Notes.ini in the Domino folder. Setup will now exit"

It does not modify any thing, there is a rollback when I press OK.

I checked all registry keys to check the paths to the Domino files, everything is OK.

I have Domino 7.0.1 running.

I found here in another topic saying that I should upgrade to SP3 at least before migrating to 4.1, otherwise I would get this notes.ini error message.
BUT when I apply this SP, I also get the notes.ini error message !!!!

I don't really know what to do, could you help me ??

Thanks in advance

[noname]

Modify your Domino's registry for the foldername from "7" to "6" and run the installer again... make sure to change back after installation...

[cscaustralia]

Hi Booster,
I had exactly the same problem on my Domino server, we tested and tested
(In our lab on a test server)and found eventually it was in the actually notes.ini file. When we closely examined the file we found that from when upgrading the server from 5 to 6 and then hotfixes along the way that the ini file became very messy and had some double entries, one was about where the directory was to check for the id file. What we did (agin in the lab) is to strip out lines that we did not really need to get the server up, then started the server, tried the install. Each time we kept getting the same error message. Well we decided to get fair dinkum and strip out every line bar the first 3-4 lines. Started the server and it rebuilt the ini file back to basics so it could boot. Once the server was stable then we installed the Bes software without issue. The install was a dream, 10 minutes. When we had this side stable then we shut the server down, put back certain configs in the ini file that we wanted and bought the server back up. Server has been great ever since. We have always keep a copy of the old ini file ( never know when you may need to refer to it for history etc) and the new ini is on the serve now.

Hope this helps.

[jinksPadlock]

Had a similar issue during an upgrade. Our solution was a little different.

Right Click My Computer-->Properties. Click Advanced Tab. Click Environment Variables Button.

Under System Variables find the Path variable. Highlight and click the Edit Button.

Make sure the path to the directory containing your Notes .ini is included in these paths. The entries are delimited by semicolons.

[booster]

Hi Jinks,

I already checked this, of course, but the correct paths were already present !

In fact, we changed the registry key as noname adviced, and it worked ! Unbelievable .....

So it's fixed now, and it's working pretty well (the client hasn't shouted for days !)

Thanks all for your great help !

Cheers

[noname]

Hey booster, you're most welcome!