Python Windows 2.3 Installer problems

[Timothy Martens]

When I run the Python-2.3.exe on my WIN2K box and go through the initial
dialogues, the installer frezes at 1% when it's "Copying File
C:\Python23\UNWISE.exe"

Any ideas ANYONE?

tim.

[Christopher Koppler]

Well, can't really pinpoint anything, as on my Win2K SP4 it works just
fine. Others have already pointed out the obvious candidates antivirus
and firewall software, as well as re-downloading (have you checked the
MD5 checksum? If not, google for md5sum.exe, and try that (the
checksum is at the bottom of the download page), it may be that your
download was corrupted, and your re-download came from your ISP's
cache and so was corrupted too).

Apart from that I can only list everything that made problems in my
earlier life as a sysadmin/network tech, in increasing order of
unlikeliness:
Have you tried it on a different computer, if you have access to one?
Have you tried to disable everything, and I mean everything that
Windows loads at startup time? Have you checked the harddisk? Have you
defragmented your harddisk? Have you tried removing unnecessary (for
Python) hardware, like TV cards, scanners, etc. As a last resort, have
you tried to reinstall Windows, and the SP, and then Python before
anything else?

--Christopher

[John J. Lee]

Timothy Martens <ti...@hawaii.rr.com> writes:

Report it as a bug on sourceforge (after searching for duplicate
reports first, of course).

John

[John J. Lee]

Timothy Martens <ti...@hawaii.rr.com> writes:

Actually, thinking about it, *don't* report a bug on SF until you've
checked any antivirus software (and the other stuff Christopher
mentioned, I guess).

John

[Irmen de Jong]

Christopher Koppler wrote:

> Apart from that I can only list everything that made problems in my
> earlier life as a sysadmin/network tech, in increasing order of
> unlikeliness:

[... a whole bunch of things to try...]

First, as I've said in another thread, try installing when
booted in 'safe mode'.

--Irmen

[querdenker]

Timothy Martens <ti...@hawaii.rr.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1059777183...@python.org>...

just another sysadmin/techie/proggie : i got the same prob on 2
different hardwares, only the Software is nearly identic. I'd turned
off almost all software-components like vir-scan and firewall. After
all i guess it won't help to change anything in the hardware, because
a file-mon like sysinterals one will show you, what's on with it:
FileNotFound / DirectoryNotFound. The Setup got stuc in the depth of
your SystemDir. As far as i can see (and think, of course), the
problem's reason must be nearby .net.
So, as Christopher has written, it really may be the best solution to
reinstall Windows.

Or you compile it :?

syl, querdenker