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Hello,
> XP Home behind a firewall.
What sort of firewall? Windows' built-in, some thrird-party one (such as
ZoneAlarm, etc) or external firewall?
> I tried installing from a limited user account to my user folder. However, I
> kept getting
> "Download of nodeconfig [or any other file for that matter] failed: Retry?".
> Seeing as how this
> is the installation itself, I cannot play around with any settings to fix
> this issue. Why do you
You can always install Freenet by hand - its not that difficult.
However, I beleive there should be an easier solution.
> need an internet connection to install the program? Why not just bundle the
> files required?
Two reasons. First of all, information about the nodes you can connect
to initially (they're called seed nodes, hence the seednodes file) is
very dynamic, so it has to be fetched from the Freenet project website
on install. And second, Freenet node versions sometimes change very
frequently, so this procedure makes sure you always get the latest version.
> As it now stands, I cannot install Freenet's software to my computer.
Let's see if we'll be able to help ;-).
> I have also tried installing under the admin account.
>
> If it's the firewall, then WHY does the software need ports forwarded just to
> install?!?!
It doesn't. All downloads are over regular HTTP. Check that you can
download files from Freenet website through your browser (try
http://www.freenetproject.org/snapshots/NodeConfig.exe). If you can't,
then it couldn't be connected to the installer. If you can, then you'll
likely have to download and install Freenet by hand.
Also, I've found from experience that sometimes Freenet project's site
is somewhat slow in responding, and it confuses the installer - maybe
there's some sort of too short a timeout somewhere in the download
code... So, if you're sure you can download files from Freenet website,
you can try to install Freenet several times over the course of about a
day - sometimes it does help.
Regards,
Victor Denisov.
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