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From: ZB on 13 Apr 2010 07:13
Hi,

I am on the road away from my company and I bought a sas instalation
with me to install in my pc that was about to arrive... the pc has
arrived and it is a 64 bits machine. the installation file I have if
for 32 bits and I cannot install it without.

anything I can do? modify the sid file or install the 32 bits on a 64
bits machine?

the sid file says
[_SID_]
Version=9.2
Revision=9.2
Platform=Windows
Platform_long=Microsoft Windows Workstation 32-bit
Platform_short=win


and

OSNAME='W32_WKS'

I need to finidh a project very quickly and I am stuck....


suggestions?
thanks.
ZB
From: Sander Burggraaff on 13 Apr 2010 10:12
I installed SAS 9.2 base 32 bits on Windows 7 Professional 64 bits so
that should not be a problem. See the link below for more information:

http://www.sascommunity.org/wiki/SAS_9.2_and_SAS_Enterprise_Guide_4.2_on_Windows_7

From: Dave Haans on 13 Apr 2010 10:58
This might be slightly off-topic, but one thing I noticed when
installing SAS 64-bit in a lab environment is that the user's SAS
profile for the 64-bit version gets saved in the same folder as the 32-
bit version, and they are incompatible. Meaning -- a user would use
SAS on a 32-bit machine, move over to a 64-bit machine but because the
profiles are incompatible there would be problems. I solved this by
editing the SAS file (which clearly states that it shouldn't be
edited!) to move the 64-bit version's profile into another folder in
the user's Windows profile.

Also, the 64-bit version throws up warnings that processing may be
slower if 32-bit SAS data files are used.

So, be careful when mixing 64- and 32-bit versions of SAS!
From: ZB on 13 Apr 2010 12:03
Hi thanks for the inputs... but no success. just keeps crashing in the
installation of SAS Foundation...

ZB
From: Sander Burggraaff on 14 Apr 2010 05:53
On 13 apr, 18:03, ZB <zambe...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi thanks for the inputs... but no success. just keeps crashing in the
> installation of SAS Foundation...
>
> ZB

Ok, now that's odd. I don't think that has anything to do with the SAS
version being 32bits. Something else might be wrong. There is another
thing you could try though but you're going to need a good internet
connection. If you have a professional, enterprise or ultimate version
of Windows 7 then you can download the XP modus for free. Microsoft
claims the new XP modus will work on any pc and doesn't depend on the
CPU virtualization anymore. It is basicaly a virtual machine with
WindowsXP pre-installed. The download file is about 500MB.
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