I'm interested in how others deal with installing SAS (particularly version 8+) through SMS. We just built an SMS package for SAS 8.2 (to be installed to NT 4.0 workstations). Even compressed, it was 266 MB. Our SMS guys looked at me like I was insane when I said I wanted to install a package that size. Also, they refused to do it - currently the package can only be installed manually, which kind of defeats the purpose of building a package. In this package, we took the defaults on every installation option, which apparently installs everything you have licensed. Would we be better off to build a package containing only base SAS, and then build other packages for optional modules (graph, AF, GIS, Enterprise Miner, etc.)? Has anyone done this? Any pitfalls?

Other than that, is there any way to reduce the bloat of the generic installation without greatly reducing functionality?

(Yes, I know the best option would be to ditch SMS altogether, but sadly it's not an option that is available to me!)

Thanks for any insights or suggestions,

Sterling Price

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