In an earlier post, I had asked whether I could install over an existing beta (under Windows) and a user said I could.
So I began doing so and was faced with the choice of type of installation Standard, System, or Custom. But I didn't know what sort of installation I currently had. So I posted again, asking how I tell. A user replied that I should just unzip the installer into the folder of the older beta version. I tried to run WinZip on the installer and was told it wasn't a valid .zip file. So I'm sort of stymied. On 11/9/2010 1:00 PM, Eric Iverson wrote: Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 13:00:35 -0500 From: Eric Iverson <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Jbeta] Beta Digest, Vol 51, Issue 13 To: Beta forum <[email protected]> I've lost track of this discussion. But off hand I can't think of any valid reason for unzipping an installer instead of just installing. Unless one had serious security concerns. > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:56:22 -0500 > From: Murray Eisenberg<[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Jbeta] Beta Digest, Vol 51, Issue 13 > To: [email protected] > Message-ID:<[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > [Once again when I tried to reply, quoting the entire beta digest > message (and then intended to cut out everything irrlevant), Thunderbird > truncated it before the message at issue.] > > I cannot open j701abeta_win.exe as a zip file to unzip it: WinZip says > it's a corrupted zip file and only offers to execute it. > > On 11/9/2010 7:21 AM, [email protected] wrote: > From: bill lam<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Jbeta] how determine > type of installation for beta upgrade? To: [email protected] > Message-ID:<[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=utf-8 You can find in which folder did you last install , and > then unzip (not execute) the jbeta installer to that folder. ???, 08 ??? > 2010, Murray Eisenberg ?????(?): > > > I was beginning to install the latest jbeta executable under Windows > > > when it asked me what type -- Standard, System, or Custom. > > > > > > Since I already have a j701 beta installed and -- in the absence of > > > having seen a response to an earlier post here about installing an > > > upgrade -- I was going to install over the earlier one. But how do I > > > determine which kind of installation I did for the previous beta? > > -- Murray Eisenberg [email protected] Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
