Ian Clarke skrev: > I tried it in Vista, and made a video of the experience with running > commentary! Find it here: > > http://locut.us/FreenetWinInstallTest1.mov > > Ian. >
Niceeeee. That was actually quite helpful. Response: - You didn't seem to get any Vista UAC popups. Did you disable it before installing? (just curious) - High disk space: I didn't yet update it to toad's latest default datestore size (now 100 MB). As mentioned earlier I think it should be asked about the the wizard (or installer, eventually. Atm. I'm just informing about how much space the node will allocate by itself) - Lots of text: The "Node service" text could indeed be shortened a bit, but at the same time you tell about how people might not know what a "service is", yet that is exactly what the text tries to explain. - I noticed that while the main GUI seems identical on Vista (surprise, actually), the text-wrapping is odd in some of the messageboxes. I'll have to look at that. - Your Mac node shouldn't have anything to do with it :) Your main problem (nothing happening for 20 secs, then an error) is actually located in the launcher (new browse.cmd) executed after the install (As checked off, in the installer. The desktop shortcut points to the same thing). Before launching fproxy in your browser, it checks the status of the service. If it's not running, it will be started. However, if this process takes more than 20 seconds, the launcher will assume that the node is stuck and report back with the error you got. I'll think add some kind of progress bar (similar to the one in the uninstaller) so the user knows that something is going on in the background. The big questions are of course: Is it stuck? And if so, why? And how to fix it? I suspect that the node was still allocating disk space (slow HDD?) and therefore had not yet told the wrapper/Windows "Hey, I'm running now!", making the launcher wait until it timed out. You can verify this by waiting a minute or two, and try launching "Browse Freenet" again (I'll add that suggestion to the error message as well). You can also check this by opening the service administration (you tried searching for it, but ended up searching among installed programs). It should be somewhere in the control panel. I need to know if the service is "starting" "running" or "stopped". - Zero3 _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
