NSIS installation error??

[IsmAvatar]

Yup, i got dialup, 56k, took me te 7 hours, but i can\'t wait to play the game. The first thing I ran into after I downloaded all 6 files, ran the .bat, and then ran the exe is the ever dreaded NSIS error. I downloaded the friendly md5 file, and checked each file, and realized that all but the 5th file are all incorrectly numbered.

I\'m not gonna have to download these 4 files again and again until i get all the numbers to match up, am i?...

let\'s see, 5=7, 4 = 6, 3 = 4, 2 = 3, 1 = 1, it should take me another 15 hours... no fun...

[Moogie]

I\'m afraid it looks like the only course of action if you want to play.

Did you use a download accelerator/manager to get the files? It seems strange that 4 of them would all be corrupted, unless you used one of these programs. They have been known to frequently result in corrupted files, especially if you pause the downloads.

[IsmAvatar]

no, i did not use any special program to download them other than what came with my computer (just the normal downloader, not really a manager). I have no ability to pause the downloads, and hence did not. it was a straightforward thing. I\'m curious though if it had anything to do with the fact that I downloaded the other 4 downloads a day before the 5th and reassembler. I also used my beloved ibiblio mirror to download all 6.

Edit: I went back to the downloads page, and seeing a note at the bottom that said \"make sure they are the correct size\", I did so, and realised that the 4 failed ones were less than half the necessary size. i\'ve had problems before with win98 56k, if i download something large, it only downloads some of it, and not all of it, for some odd reason. i got a new modem with this new computer, still 56k, but that seems to be the case again. perhaps if i leave my computer alone while downloading the files i won\'t have the problem...

Well, i\'m redownloading the other 4 files, and I hope that at least 2 of them return successful.

[kronon]

Hmm I downloaded the file for my dad\'s computer and it worked in one try.
To bad the computer whas to slow to play the game though.

[Moogie]

Originally posted by IsmAvatar
Edit: I went back to the downloads page, and seeing a note at the bottom that said \"make sure they are the correct size\", I did so, and realised that the 4 failed ones were less than half the necessary size. i\'ve had problems before with win98 56k, if i download something large, it only downloads some of it, and not all of it, for some odd reason. i got a new modem with this new computer, still 56k, but that seems to be the case again. perhaps if i leave my computer alone while downloading the files i won\'t have the problem...

I\'ve also frequently had this problem. I\'m on a 64k Cable modem running Windows 98SE. In cases where the download does not fully complete, and then refuses to download anything more if I try again, I use the GetRight download manager.

Files I download using this usually turn out okay, as long as I don\'t pause at any point during the transfer. For anything larger than 100mb I try to find the files I need on Edonkey or KaZaA. There was a \'visitor\' to these forums a while ago claiming he had pirated (lol) PlaneShift off of KaZaA, so I would assume you can find the .part files there if all else fails.

Good luck. Come back and tell us what happened.

[IsmAvatar]

ah, i was thinking i may have to use a download manager, but just not pause it. i\'ll go find your getright whatever it\'s called and use that. thank you so much, i will definately keep you informed as to how it turns out.

[Grakrim]

Originally posted by Mogura
I\'ve also frequently had this problem. I\'m on a 64k Cable modem running Windows 98SE. In cases where the download does not fully complete, and then refuses to download anything more if I try again, I use the GetRight download manager.

I used to use GetRight, until it completely screwed up my computer and I had to reinstall Windows (back when I was still using 9x).  Although I\'ve been told that Spyware has been installed in the latest versions of Getright, so I would not recommend its use (unless the Spyware portion itself could be removed with Adaware).  There are other excellant download managers, or so I\'ve been told, I just wouldn\'t recommend downloading the latest version of Getright (now if you get a version before the starting putting in Spyware, you should be alright).

Of course, if you like and support Spyware, by all means, download.

[IsmAvatar]

Well, this is a new computer, and is clean of my credit card number or anything like that (i don\'t have a credit card, don\'t wanna be $4000 in debt). i have nothing really to hide from spyware. When I installed it, it did say that it was free of any trojans, viruses, etc., so maybe there\'s a version beyond what you thought that fixed all that. I\'ll tell you though, i used it and i love it. you can schedule a download session, so all i\'d have to do is leave my computer on and then just go off to work and it\'ll download sometime in the middle of work...

well, i let it run overnight, and told it to download the 4, and shutdown when it finished, but i\'m not sure what happened, because it downloaded the 4th one, just not the first 3. (order of operations said do the 4th one first). I guess maybe i have to set a time for each download or something... it never shutdown my computer, not that i\'m aware of, but it may have rebooted. when i checked it the next morning, it had finished the 4th one i don\'t know when, but i had that little message in the bottomright saying \"connection has been established\" so i might have disconnected in the middle of the night, or rebooted, and when it came back on, it decided to connect (it does this sometimes.. it just picks a random time that i\'m offline, when i wish to remain offline, and then all of a sudden the little \"connecting\" popup appears...)

well, let me tell you the results: I may have discovered why my downloads wind up short. the server who is holding them goes down every hour or so, and cuts the download short. your computer thinks the download is done. download manager, who then pauses the download until the server is back up, in like 30 seconds or something, knows it\'s not done, and resumes later.
well, it\'s ashame it didn\'t do quite what i expected it to do, but what it did do turned out fine, and i have the correct 4th copy.

[Grakrim]

Well, let\'s get this straight, Spyware is legal, unfortunatly, but legal nonetheless.  It won\'t steal credit card information of stuff like that, but it would track your habits, and may even scan your harddrive to see what sort of software you might have installed.  Also, Spyware isn\'t a Trojan, it isn\'t a Virus, or anything like that.

I, for one, don\'t like my privacy infringed.

I agree, Getright is a great piece of software, it really helps us folks with the unreliable dial-ups.  But yes, they may have removed the spyware since I stopped using it, but its hard to tell sometimes.

As for your problem with Getright, unless they changed the interface, you don\'t have to set a time.  You may want to play with the options, you can set it up to not connect if you\'re offline and such.  You may also have a time-out setup on your connection, it shouldn\'t time-out while you\'re downloading, but its happened to me before... Or maybe I\'m just misunderstanding you.

[IsmAvatar]

yes, i understand what spyware is, and i guess i mistook it for else at the time, but there\'s a few programs out there that you can buy to reduce/eliminate spyware.

as for the problem with it disconnecting or whatever, i think when i checked for it to shutdown when it finished, it may have figured that that meant when it was down the current download, and not the remaining four, and instead of shutting down, it may have rebooted. I\'m not exactly sure, but i\'m reading up on it in the readme and other files that came with it (I actually read those things, unlike some people). Anywhom, thanks to this great program, i have downloaded all 5 files successfully, and am now testing this game out.