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Thread ID: 51716 2004-11-28 08:22:00 Installing Firefox/Thunderbird on a Win98 box crashes at 100% Extracting Chilling_Silence (9) Press F1
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297276 2004-11-28 08:22:00 Greetings,

Just finished fixing a Win98 box for a mate - When I do the install, the extraction gets to 100% and then the process appears to die?

Any ideas?

I had a quick Google and it didnt do much good.......

Cheers


Chill.
Chilling_Silence (9)
297277 2004-11-28 08:24:00 have you tried mozilla suite to see if it's firefox or the computer itself? Megaman (344)
297278 2004-11-28 08:31:00 Nope - But Ive had this issue on another PC before running Win98 too..... Chilling_Silence (9)
297279 2004-11-28 08:42:00 I have had no probs putting just Firefox on a W98se comp.
Bye
Peter H (220)
297280 2004-11-28 08:49:00 Have you rebooted between each install? Murray P (44)
297281 2004-11-28 08:58:00 But it wont install, thats the point...... :-( Chilling_Silence (9)
297282 2004-11-28 09:04:00 Bad ram? Or just a bad download / file?

Lo.
Lohsing (219)
297283 2004-11-28 09:06:00 Try a manual extraction of all the files, any zip utility should be able to read a self-extracting file like that. Just extract the files to a directory and install from those files extracted.

Since it says 100% done, it's quite possible that the extraction into a temp directory worked, it seems to just be having problems getting the setup file to start it, which is probably why it's stopped at 100% and hasn't switched to the installer yet.

It maybe a corrupt download?


Kame
Kame (312)
297284 2004-11-28 09:57:00 Downloads work fine on another XP PC - Tried that....

I'll try manual extraction though :-) Thanks....
Chilling_Silence (9)
297285 2004-11-28 10:45:00 chill
just another thought that may help and I have struck this with 98 on an install before but not firefox
SPY BOT, if it has the resident scanner (tea timer) installed and active, stops registry writes, you can temporary disable this by right clicking on the its icon in task bar (down by the clock)
beama (111)
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