Microsoft KB Archive/254880

= You receive an "Error opening installation log file" error message when you use /L in a command line to run Office 2000 Setup =

Article ID: 254880

Article Last Modified on 1/27/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office 2000 Premium Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Small Business Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Developer Edition
 * Microsoft Access 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Outlook 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q254880



SYMPTOMS
When you run Setup for Microsoft Office, you may receive the following error message:

Error opening installation log file. Verify that the specified log file location exists and is writable.



CAUSE
This error message may occur when all of the following conditions are true:  You are using Microsoft Windows 2000. You run Office Setup by typing a command line, similar to the following, that includes the /L switch:

f:\setup /L*V c:\verbose.txt

 You cancel Setup. You rerun Setup by typing the same command line.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, follow these steps:
 * 1) Restart your computer.
 * 2) Rerun Office Setup by typing the same command line with the /L switch.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.



MORE INFORMATION
If you want to control logging options without having to use /L on the command line, follow these steps: <ol> Double-click Setup.ini in the root directory of your Office CD.

This opens Setup.ini in Notepad.</li> On the File menu, click Save As.</li> Browse to the root directory of drive C, and then click Save.</li> In the [Logging] section of the Setup.ini file, change the following line

Type=piwae

to the following:

Type=v*

</li> On the File menu, click Save.</li> On the File menu, click Exit.</li> On the Start menu, click Run.</li> In the Open box, type a command line similar to the following and then click OK:



Note,  is the drive letter for your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive.</li></ol>

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