RE: [be] Problem installing on Windows XP Pro

[johnduffy]

Hi Birch,

 

Thanks for putting those instructions there.  However, while they are helpful to someone who isn't too familiar with PCs or installing software much, I had done that as a matter of course.  The problem that I had was after clicking on the setup.vbs file and starting the installer, where the installer could not proceed, with the error message "Windows cannot open the device or file specified", and after some general error text referred to error code 2755. 

 

Is there an previous revision that I could try, or a logging procedure to see what file is causing the problem? 

 

I'm still not sure what the reference to msysgit means - should I have installed this before trying to install as you have outlined?

 

John Duffy

 

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From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Birch Champeon
Sent: 29 September 2009 00:27
To: address@hidden; address@hidden
Subject: Re: [be] Problem installing on Windows XP Pro

Hi John,

I posted instructions for installing on Windows here: 
http://bibledit.pbworks.com/Install-Bibledit-on-Windows

Please 
let me know if you have problems.

Birch

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:23 AM, <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

I've got a problem installing Bibledit. 

 

It has the error "Windows cannot open the device or file specified". I downloaded it again in case it was a faulty download, but that didn't help. 

 

However, during the failed installation process, it went ahead and installed Git successfully. But that wasn't enough to sort it out because further attempts at installation failed.  The wiki has this line in the installation procedure "You must install msysgit and place the Git tools in the system path."  Yet it doesn't make any reference to what this is or where msysgit and Git tools are or where they can be found, and so on.  I'm reasonably able to program and install etc (though not a full time programmer), but this is just not working........

 

I've checked the mailing list archives and there is nothing that seems relevant. 

 

Can anyone make any suggestions as to what I need to do to get Bibledit installed and working?  It would be much appreciated.

 

 

John Duffy