Corrupt Install

koorbkoorb Join Date: 2003-04-17 Member: 15587Members
in Tech Support
<div class="IPBDescription">A problem I'm having with the installer</div> Iv downloaded Natural Selection now from several different servers and I always get the same error.
Can anybody help?

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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    edited April 2003
    1. Verify by downloading and installing from one of our known good mirrors:

    <a href='http://files.redphive.org/ns_install_v1.exe' target='_blank'>http://files.redphive.org/ns_install_v1.exe</a>

    2. Open a command prompt (start | run | cmd) and type 'SET'. Verify that the path specified by the TEMP variable exists and is writable.
    3. Verify that you are virus-free.
    4. Come on back here and give us the word.
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  • koorbkoorb Join Date: 2003-04-17 Member: 15587Members
    1. Redownloaded - Went well
    2. Checked - All present and correct
    3. Scanned - No viruses present
    4. Same error but different part of the install. Actually It's only been the last two times that I tried that I have had music with the install.
    I currently two setup files of Natural Selection on my computer. One from your linked Mirror and another possibly from Fileplanet. One gets as far as installing splash.bmp (about 25% of the way) and the other gets as far as ns_titlescreen.mp3 (about 75% of the way).
    When rerun both installs stop at the same point that they did before.

    I have tried downloading the setup file with IE, Getright and Freshdownload with no success.
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    edited April 2003
    Crikey... well, you're running XP at least. From a command prompt (start | Run | 'CMD')

    Type:

    chkdsk c: /r

    Hit enter. It will say that it cannot check now, would you like to schedule on reboot. Type Y for yes, and reboot. This will run a repair on your local disk, fixing any errors and moving any data off bad sectors. It's rather unlikely to fix your problem, but will at least eliminate disk errors from teh equation.
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  • koorbkoorb Join Date: 2003-04-17 Member: 15587Members
    edited April 2003
    Done, no errors.

    Just downloaded another copy from Fileplanet's Brazilian server and It got the error when it got to ns.wad.
    Retested and they all get stuck at their various points.
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    What the hell...

    Rerun the chkdsk command, but change it to:

    chkdsk c: /f

    Verify that you can create a sample text file in the following directories:

    c:\windows
    c:\windows\temp
    The TEMP directory you saw listed in your SET command

    This really sounds like a disk problem, but we shall see.
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  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    hmm, the fact that MonsE is having problems doth not bode well

    Just as an aside, what are these commands you are having him run? (I am just sorta curious)
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  • koorbkoorb Join Date: 2003-04-17 Member: 15587Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Thansal+Apr 17 2003, 10:04 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Thansal @ Apr 17 2003, 10:04 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> hmm, the fact that MonsE is having problems doth not bode well

    Just as an aside, what are these commands you are having him run? (I am just sorta curious) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    /r Will locate bad sectors and attempt to fix them.
    /f Will fix standard errors to do with the file system.
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    No luck, I take it koorb?
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  • koorbkoorb Join Date: 2003-04-17 Member: 15587Members
    Got it working.
    I installed ns from another computer on my network.
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  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    lol, interesting solution

    and congrats <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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