[REBOL] Re: View 1.0 Amiga installation
From: carl:cybercraft at: 10-Apr-2001 18:21
I had the same ""Can not install: Failed to create binary file: ..."
error as you to begin with, but managed to get a good install when I
ran View from the CLI instead of the icon.
I don't know why there's a ".rebol" file written to your RAM disk, but
I've also got one in my sys: partition too. If you haven't, then
it's probably why you have to install View again after every reboot.
I ssume it's your install that puts the ".rebol" in your RAM disk, so
perhaps after the install you could copy the ".rebol" to your sys:
drawer to see if that'll fix your problem.
On 10-Apr-01, P-O Yliniemi wrote:
> Hi,
> I am having some problem installing REBOL/View on the Amiga.
> First, I had problems with the REBOL_VIEW and REBOL_HOME variables,
> which seems to be ignored by the new /View version, but I came
> around this problem in some way.
> The problem is that after every reboot, Rebol wants to install
> itself again and again, and now when I tried this time, I got an
> even more weird problem (I had SnoopDOS running to trace the problem
> the third time I tried to install):
> Before starting to install, I removed the REBOL_VIEW and REBOL_HOME
> files from env: and envarc: (which should remove all trace of older
> versions ?)
> I extracted the view011.lha archive to Disk-01:rebview/
> (lha x -F view011.lha Disk-01:rebview/)
> and started the installation from workbench. SnoopDOS log:
> Count Process Name Action Target Name Options Res. -----
> ------------ ------ ----------- ------- ---- 1 WBL ChangeDir
> Disk-01:rebview 2 WBL Load rebol OK
> 3 WBL ChangeDir SYS:
> 4 WBL LockScreen Workbench OK 5 WBL LockScreen Workbench OK 6 WBL
> LockScreen Workbench OK 7 rebol ChangeDir Disk-01:rebview 8 rebol
> Open CON:10/10/600/220/REBOL/AUT Write OK 9 KingCON DOS-proces Open
> ENV:Sys/def_KingCON.info Read Fail 10 rebol Open * Read OK
> 11 rebol Open * Read OK
> 12 rebol ChangeDir Disk-01:rebview 13 rebol Open rebol.info Read OK
> 14 rebol ChangeDir Disk-01:rebview 15 rebol ChangeDir
> Disk-01:rebview 16 rebol Open rebol.info Read OK 17 rebol ChangeDir
> Disk-01:rebview
> After accepting the licence agreement, I entered
> /Work/Programming/REBOL/ as the installation directory (only "create
> above.." checked, even if I had that directory before), and then
> "Install"
> Rebol/View pops up "Can not install: Failed to create binary file:
> /Work/Programming/REBOL/rebol
> SnoopDOS log:
> Count Process Name Action Target Name Options Res. -----
> ------------ ------ ----------- ------- ---- 26 rebol Open
> Disk-01:rebview Read Fail
> ok.. seems like REBOL wanted to read the rebview directory as a
> file.. so I move out the contents of the rebview directory to the
> root directory of the Disk-01 partition and retry the installation:
> Another try. SnoopDOS log after starting the installation again:
> Count Process Name Action Target Name Options Res. -----
> ------------ ------ ----------- ------- ---- 1 WBL ChangeDir
> Disk-01: 2 WBL Load rebol OK
> 3 WBL ChangeDir SYS:
> 4 WBL LockScreen Workbench OK 5 WBL LockScreen Workbench OK 6 WBL
> LockScreen Workbench OK 7 rebol ChangeDir Disk-01: 8 rebol Open
> CON:10/10/600/220/REBOL/AUT Write OK 9 KingCON DOS-proces Open
> ENV:Sys/def_KingCON.info Read Fail 10 rebol Open * Read OK
> 11 rebol Open * Read OK
> 12 rebol ChangeDir Disk-01: 13 rebol Open rebol.info Read OK 14
> rebol ChangeDir Disk-01: 15 rebol ChangeDir Disk-01: 16 rebol Open
> rebol.info Read OK 17 rebol ChangeDir Disk-01:
> "Accept" again, and the same installation directory. Rebol says
> "installation succeeded.". SnoopDOS log:
> Count Process Name Action Target Name Options Res. -----
> ------------ ------ ----------- ------- ---- 1 rebol Open
> Work:Programming/REBOL/rebo Write OK 2 rebol Open
> Work:Programming/REBOL/rebo Read OK 3 rebol Open ram:.rebol Write OK
> 4 rebol Open ram:.rebol Read OK 5 rebol Open ram:.rebol Read OK 6
> rebol Open ram:.rebol Read OK
> Why.. is a file ".rebol" written on the RAM disk ?
> File contents:
> ; This file is for REBOL configuration information. DO NOT EDIT
> view-install-path %/Work/Programming/REBOL/
> View 1.0.0.1.1
> And, when I check the "rebol" file in Work:Programming/REBOL, I
> notice this is a text file that contains (on a single 193 character
> line):
>
setup.htmlrebol.inforebollicense.htmlicons/feedback.r.infofeedback.rrebview/movie/vs/.filelistdocs.sun.com/piccs/Mypics.infoMypics/MailZIP.infoMailZIP/Amiga-Archive.infoAmiga-Archive/disk.info
> which is the contents of my Disk-01 partition's root directory.
> /PeO
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Carl Read
[carl--cybercraft--co--nz]
