On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Peter Åstrand wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, James Hawkins wrote:
If you're still having this problem, please make sure you are not on a remote or network-mounted drive. IE6 setup checks if the drive is remote, and will not install if it is, complaining with the completely non-related error that "The download location information is damaged."
Alternatively, you can go into winecfg->Drives->Show Advanced and change the Type from Autodetect to "Local hard disk".
Indeed, this was the problem! On my FC4 machine, my home directory is NFS mounted.
I guess a lot of applications might behave bad with C: being a Network drive. It seems a lot safer to tag C: as "Hard disk" as default. What about this patch?:
Index: tools/wine.inf =================================================================== RCS file: /home/wine/wine/tools/wine.inf,v retrieving revision 1.77 diff -u -r1.77 wine.inf --- tools/wine.inf 19 Jun 2006 08:36:44 -0000 1.77 +++ tools/wine.inf 21 Jun 2006 07:41:05 -0000 @@ -289,6 +289,7 @@ HKLM,System\CurrentControlSet\Control\VMM32Files,,,"" HKLM,System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\MSTCP,,,"" HKCU,Software\Wine\shdocvw,"MozillaUrl",,"http://source.winehq.org/mozactivex" +HKLM,Software\Wine\Drives,"C:",,"hd" HKLM,HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\PARALLEL PORTS,,,"" HKLM,HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\SERIALCOMM,,,""
Regards,