Installation Error

[El Nino]

Oh dear .... Fallen at the first hurdle.

When i double-click on the WP3Setup exe, I receive the error,

'could not create cab file - %temp%\wp3.cab'

Any ideas?

hmm. can you let me know where windows is installed on you pc
ie. c:\windows ?

can you also let me know if you have a temporary directory

bring up a dos box and type 'set'
shoudl see sommat like:

TEMP=c:\temp

along with a load of other stuff.

lastly tell me how much free disk space you have.

Ta

Slarti

[El Nino]

Windows is installed in c:\Windows

Temp dir:

TMP=c:\windows\TEMP

Free HD space 10.8gb

[WildWayz]

Try this

goto c:\Windows\Temp

delete all the temp files and folders in there.

try it again.

--[KK]WildWayz

[El Nino]

Solved it. Added,

SET TEMP=C:\TEMP to autoexec.bat

Installed fine after reboot.

[Slash]

DOH !

Why did windows use TMP and DOS use TEMP ??

Grr >:

Will fix.

Slash.

weird it should still have worked even without a temp directory (I think I resort to expanding the cab to c:\ if no temp directory exists

Okay think we've solved this one.

If you're environment variable points to a location that does not exist, I simply extract the cab file to c:\ and clean up at the end.

I'm pretty sure nearly everyone will have a c:\ - there's probably a few wacky PC's that boot off d: and the c: drive is removed but then they should expect weird stuff to happen anyway :-)

[Frog]

Thought u might like to know i have a Pc that boots off drives

D: - UDMA66 27.2gb win98
e: - UDMA33 18.1gb win2k
h: - SCSI-2 38.4gb nt4
and
j: - firewire win9x/dos

and WP3 works fine from every drive i've tried it in (no C: drive)

Frog.

There's always one isn't there http://www.gameplayerz.com/ubb/smile.gif

Thanks for that. I reckon it works okay for you because you have your 'temp' environment variable correctly set to one of those drives.

Hmm.. maybe if I fell back to sticking it in your Windows directory rather than C:\ it would be more foolproof as I can get that through an API call in Windows.