For Chrome, I had already done the settings in the supplied URL and it didn't work for me.

What did work for Chrome was a similar registry setting I had used...

Excellent! It's now working in the Edge browser. I had the IE settings correct but didn't have the Edge policies set.

What fixed it for me was this registry setting -

AuthNegotiateDelegateAllowlist

Windows...

I extracted SP 2 to the folder and the installation still hung with the same results.

How I got it to work was to install SP1 CU8 and that...

I ran the FixMissingMSI tool and it reported all ok. I ran it twice, once pointing it to a SP1 iso I mounted on the server and then a second...

Ok, thanks for that info! I've got meetings the rest of the morning but will pursue this further this afternoon. I'll post back what I find.

Thanks again,
-Wayne

Yes, that's where the repair wrote a log file to. Ok, I just found the directory with files from the failed install and the detail.txt file looks promising.
I'm seeing a...

Ok, I just looked at my post and see that copy/paste out of MS Word created some funny stuff.
The dialog box the install hangs on states -
Instance  MSSQLSERVER:...