Re: [guide-user] "Guide needs the guide CD-ROM to run"

Raphaël GUINAMARD Feb 18, 2007

I've done it but the problem is still there...
Raphaël
----- Original Message -----
From: Josch Hambsch
To: guide-user@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] "Guide needs the guide CD-ROM to run"


You just add this line in your startup mar pointing to the right directory.

Josch Hambsch

http://www.astronomie.be/hambsch
http://users.pandora.be/hambsch/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Raphaël GUINAMARD" <rguinamard@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] "Guide needs the guide CD-ROM to run"

Josh,
I think our messages crossed each other.
Well I had nothing in my startup.mar.
Now that I have downloading the new version that bill point out, I have a
new startup.mar witch don't have the #18 line
Anyway, my guide still doesn't start.
Bill, do you think I have to unintall Guide completely then reinstall
completely?
Thanks for your help
Raphaël (from France)
----- Original Message -----
From: Josch Hambsch
To: guide-user@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] "Guide needs the guide CD-ROM to run"

HI,

you have to point in the startup.mar Guide to the directory where you have
it installed.
Somewhere is a line like mine:

18 drive d:\astro\guide8\

IN your case it points probably to the CD drive. Just rename it and save
it
into the Guide directory.

That should solve the issue with Guide asking to start from CD.

I recommend to copy STARTUP.MAR once in a while since this file sometomes
gets corrupted (happended to me already several times).

Josch Hambsch

http://www.astronomie.be/hambsch
http://users.pandora.be/hambsch/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Raphaël GUINAMARD" <rguinamard@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] "Guide needs the guide CD-ROM to run"

Thanks Bill and all for a so quick answer !
Before Bill answered, I had checked my startup.mar.
It was empty (0 Ko, nothing inside). I found a startup.mar in the CD1/text
and copy it in my guide folder but it changed nothing => I reput my old
"empty" startup.mar in the guide folder
For Bill:
In my maximum.dat, there is only the 3 letters : 01u
I erased it but there is still the same problems "guide needs the guide
CD-rom to run", "near memory" and nothing else.
Guide has just recreated a new maximum.dat with still "01u" inside.
I erased again this new maximum.dat file.

For the "third problem" of running guide without the CD, I had installed
guide completely with the extra/install to hard drive

So I've just tried to reinstalled the current software as suggested : I
didn't know what to do with the files of the guide8.zip, so I put then
directly in my guide folder, erasing the old -same names- files. So I have
a
new startup.mar (3 ko) dating of 16feb2007.
I stopped the computer, restarted it, but my problem is still there,
unchanged "guide needs the guide CD-rom to run", "near memory"
Maybe I have to uninstall completely guide from my computer ????
Raphaël

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill J Gray
To: guide-user@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] "Guide needs the guide CD-ROM to run"

Hi Raphaël,

I think I see two problems here.

One is that Guide shouldn't be showing that "Near memory: 7
allocations 55923 bytes" message. I can see why it shows that
message; I've just fixed this.

A second possible problem involves the file 'maximum.dat'.
I think Guide is writing out a corrupted version of this file.
(On my computer, it's not appearing as a major problem: in
fact, the only way in which I noticed it was that Guide started
up in windowed mode. But depending on what corrupted data got
written out, I assume it _could_ cause this problem.)

So I'd suggest deleting 'maximum.dat'. All you'll lose will
be settings such as the font used for the chart, positions of
dialog boxes, and a few similar items. These will simply
go to their default values. Meanwhile, I'll work on ensuring
that Guide doesn't write out defective 'maximum.dat' files.

You may also find that re-installing the current software
(probably the version at http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm )
fixes the problem. It will overwrite some of the existing
files in your Guide folder; if one of those is causing the
trouble, using the update will get things working again. This
works surprisingly often.

(A third "problem", of a sort, is that Guide can't run without
the CD in the drive. Once you get things working again, you may
want to use Extras... Install to Hard Drive.)

-- Bill

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