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I tried the installation of 3.1g using the four disk method.
I copied them to four different floppies. At the end of the first disk,
it says:
" Place installation disk #2 into the floppy drive and press the OK
button."
The following have NOT worked:
1. Hitting enter with originally downloaded file and original disk.
2. Hitting enter with newly downloaded file onto riginal disk.
3. Helping it along by typing out file name.
4. Copying the file to a directory on disk, then retyping a new path.
5. #1-#4 using a third download of the file onto a second disk.
The filename in question is povwin3.w02.
Please help.
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Is there a particular reason that you can't download the single executable
file?
When I first installed POV, I had no internet access, so I downloaded the
floppy-sized executable and additional files. I never actually tried to
install POV directly from these floppies though. Instead I copied all six
(?) files into a temporary directory on my HD, and ran the install from
there. Always worked no problem.
It sounds to me like you must have got a faulty download. Maybe it's not
even file 2 that's the problem.. maybe the first one is the one that's
corrupt, and it's *that* that's stopping disc 2 working. I dunno.. I'm
guessing here (obviously :-) )
Hope this has been of some assistance
--
Andy Cocker
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In article <3A70782D.9EAB2CB5@my-dejanews.com> , "Greg M. Johnson"
<gre### [at] my-dejanews com> wrote:
> I tried the installation of 3.1g using the four disk method.
> I copied them to four different floppies. At the end of the first disk,
> it says:
> " Place installation disk #2 into the floppy drive and press the OK
> button."
>
> The following have NOT worked:
> 1. Hitting enter with originally downloaded file and original disk.
> 2. Hitting enter with newly downloaded file onto riginal disk.
> 3. Helping it along by typing out file name.
> 4. Copying the file to a directory on disk, then retyping a new path.
> 5. #1-#4 using a third download of the file onto a second disk.
>
> The filename in question is povwin3.w02.
>
> Please help.
What do you expect? Someone mailing you disks because you have a faulty
download or bad disks? ;-)
Please don't be offended when reading this, but you got all the help you can
get. There is no advice other than the one you have received as response to
your post two days ago. The reason for this is that the problem is on your
site and nobody can help you there except you...
Let me summarise the advice you got:
Go to the next (computer) store, buy a pack of new disks. Copy the files
you have on four of those disks. If this does not work, delete the old
files you have on hard disk, *clear your browser cache* and then download
the files again (all of them). Copy the new files you have on four of those
disks. Repeat this until you are successful
Thorsten
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>From: "Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde>
>Newsgroups: povray.general
>Subject: Re: 3.1g installation hangs
>Date: Mit, 24. Jan 2001 8:20 Uhr
>
> In article <3A6ED37F.68A96A65@my-dejanews.com> , "Greg M. Johnson"
> <gre### [at] my-dejanewscom> wrote:
>
>>> corrupt installation - i had this problem with a copy of v3 a while back,
>>> had to re-download
>>
>> Re-downloaded, same prob.
>
> Clear the browser cache first (especially if using IE), then restart the
> browser or better your system. Or get it from the ftp site (with an ftp
> client - IE will also cache ftp files).
>
>
> Thorsten
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