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Windows exe installer bug

boden — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:17:12 GMT

It appears to be impossible to install 2.1 RC1 (win exe installer) on a Windows system that does not have a C:. When C: does not exist, the "Browse" button in the "Choose Destination Location" window pukes with the following error:Error: window name "__choose_directory" already exists in parentIn t

Re: Windows exe installer bug

boden — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:23:58 GMT

Workaround:

Map drive letter C to the administrative share of the drive you're installing to.

For example: if the name of the machine you're installing on is "fred", and fred has a hard drive "E:", then map "C:" to \\fred\e$

This will let you use the Browse feature in the installer to choose an appropriate folder to install to.