We are currently running out database in a clustered environment. As such the full text search service is only running on one of the two clustered machines. However when we try to run an install it searches for the sevice, fails to find it and then errors out. I would like to skip this check since we know it is running. Does anyone know how to skip setup checks like this? Without being able to skip it we can't perform the install since we are always stuck on the test screen.
Turns out this was related to not have updated install patches. We were installing against SQL Server 2008 which has a different name for the full text search service process than 2005. When I got the install patches everything worked.