winboard and winxp

[mridul]

Hi,

In case this has been answered or is the wrong place to ask , my apologies.

Trying to install winboard in win xp 64 , and the installer keeps failing.
This is happening for the downloads from Tim Mann's site and from the xboard savanna site.
Any help , pointers or suggestions welcome.

RTFM's welcome.
Thanks in advance,
Mridul

[mridul]

My my , forgot to mention the error.
A dialog pop's up with the message "Setup is unable to find installation languages in <temp_path>\wb-setup<num>\setup.lid file. error 105".

The console dump is :
"
UnZipSFX 5.32 of 3 November 1997, by Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs@lists.wku.edu).
inflating: language.dat
inflating: os.dat
inflating: _isdel.exe
inflating: setup.exe
inflating: _inst32i.ex_
inflating: _setup.dll
inflating: setup.ins
inflating: _sys1.cab
inflating: _user1.cab
inflating: data.tag
extracting: setup.ini
inflating: data1.cab
inflating: layout.bin
Running: "C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\wb-setup4\setup" C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\wb-setup4
"

Thanks,
Mridul

[Guenther Simon]

Hi,

In case this has been answered or is the wrong place to ask , my apologies.

Trying to install winboard in win xp 64 , and the installer keeps failing.
This is happening for the downloads from Tim Mann's site and from the xboard savanna site.
Any help , pointers or suggestions welcome.

RTFM's welcome.
Thanks in advance,
Mridul

Did you try Winboard_X too(no installer needed)? This is what most
people use nowadays. AFAIK Olivier and Leo use it with WINXP 64.

http://www.ascotti.org/programming/chess/winboard_x.htm

Best regards,
Guenther

[mridul]

My solution was simple and stupid.
Dual boot to win2k and install from there.

Looks like some compatibility issue with winxp64 ...

Thanks
Mridul