Ran into that one myself last night after attempting to install my newly
arrived v8. But finally fixed it myself after 2 reinstalls when I realized
it was the ONLY thing I wasn't checking for install! Thanks for the update!

Anthony J. Kroes
Pulaski, WI

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill J Gray [mailto:pluto@...]
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 6:56 PM
> To: guide-user@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [guide-user] Another Guide8.zip posted
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Still attempting to puzzle out why a few people are having
> hard drive install failures. Use of the "patch" file, and/or
> knowing that you had to double-click to get an item to toggle,
> and/or knowing that you have to make some sort of change
> in the dialog to get it to copy/remove files, has gotten just
> about everybody to get the function to work. (Except for
> several people, I realize, who just gave up and copied the
> CD or CDs to their hard drive manually...)
>
> I found out a cause of at least one failure to install to the
> hard drive: one gent turned on everything _except_ the 'minimal
> install' (topmost) option, figuring that he didn't need those
> 6.5 megabytes of 'minimal' files. Problem is, without those,
> Guide will either crash or demand that you feed it the Guide CD.
>
> His assumption was, it seems to me, not unreasonable. I've
> just posted Yet Another Update to
>
> http://www.projectpluto.com/guide8.zip
>
> that repairs this problem as follows: if you tell Guide that
> you want to install anything at all, it'll recognize that the
> "minimal" files will be needed as well. So it will no longer
> even be possible for the program to be broken in this manner.
>
> So: if you run the SETUP program to install Guide, then
> unZIP this newly-posted guide8.zip in your Guide directory, then
> run Guide 8, and find that the "install to hard drive" option still
> fails... PLEASE LET ME KNOW. If I don't hear differently, it
> looks as if I'm set to send out a CD to be replicated on Monday,
> which ought to get me disks to ship sometime around 14 February.
>
> Thanks! -- Bill
>
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