I concur with this. My experience earlier this week is in agreement. I was unable to read the DVD using the drive on my observatory computer, so I copied the content to a subdirectory on a USB stick using another computer.

I was subsequently unable to install from the subdirectory on the USB stick and I received the empty dialog box almost immediately.

Thinking it might be one of those "you have to install from the root directory" cases, I used the SUBST command to create a virtual root in the source directory on the USB stick and tried reinstalling by making that my current working directory (I was on XP) and installing from there. That worked like a charm.

Best Wishes,

Grant

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Bill J Gray <pluto@...> wrote:
>
> Hi George,
>
> Hadn't heard about this one before! (Nor the slightly different
> problem Arturo mentions with 'setup' under Wine.)
>
> The Setup program from the DVD did work for me (and is essentially
> the same as the "revised" Setup program for Guides 7 and 8). _However_,
> it occurs to me that it may have done so because I went into Wineconfig
> and gave the DVD a drive letter of its own.
>
> I got a report of a related issue a while back: under Windows,
> somebody copied everything from the DVD drive to a USB memory stick,
> putting it in a folder such as f:\guide9. Then they tried running
> f:\guide9\setup.exe, and it failed. The Setup program does assume
> that it's running from a DVD, and therefore in the root folder.
>
> I will investigate; I _think_ this won't be tough to fix. In
> the meantime... just use Winecfg to make a drive letter for the DVD,
> and all should be well. (Please let me know if it is not; it may
> affect any work I do on Setup.)
>
> -- Bill
>