On Thursday, February 21, 2002, at 03:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all, > I wonder if anyone has installed the windows media player installer for > OSX. > I have acquired the SIT from 2 sources (APC Magazine, and Microsoft > website) and the installer always fails with a numeric code saying it > could not find a file. > > This is similar to a problem I had with the ICQ Installer, and in that > case I found out that if I installed onto an HFS+ filesystem the > installer completed successfully, but it would not install on my UFS > root FS. > > This trick however doesn't seem to work with the Windows Media > installer. I am guessing that it tries to install at least some files > into the /System directory which in my case is UFS. > > I don't understand why the host FS should make a difference (Pretty bad > programming of the installer if it does). > > If anyone has had similar experiences, I would find it reassuring (even > if disappointing) to find out. That is not the only installer that has problems with UFS file systems and pointing to a HFS plus partition does not solve it. I am debating on switching back over to HFS plus. Corey _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
