Quartus II 11.1 Installation Hangs

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I've tried running the online installer. 

I've tried downloading the DVDs and then mounting them as files. I've downloaded the separate exe files and running them.  As soon as I accept the terms and conditions and click next, the installer never responds, and just sits there forever. I have let it run for about an hour and a half.  It's a brand new machine that just has Windows XP SP3 installed. I have the firewall turned off. I have turned MS Security Essentials off. It's a dual core AMD.  About the only thing out of the ordinary is that this machine came with a card reader that shows up like a bunch of floppy drives, making the hard drive show up as I:\.  Help !!

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Bob, I was going to suggest disabling the card reader in the device manager then re-booting to get the hard drive back to 'C:'. I have  

realised that all installation paths would be incorrect when the card reader is re-enabled.   Can you re-assign the drive letters in the 'Computer Management' window (on XP Start -> Right Click My Computer -> Manage)?     Nial.

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I'm pretty sure that re-assigning the hard drive would require a complete re-install of windows. Also, the BIOs on this machine does not have an option to disable the card reader. I would have to turn the USB off altogether.  

 I'm really hoping that this late generation of the Altera installer is not so poorly written as to not use the environment variables that describe the system.  I ran TCPview while doing an install, and verified that there are no network connections being attempted by the installer. Ever. The thread that is blocking in the installer is running a function called something like InstVerifyDriver.  Altera ... ?  ?  ?

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i regularly install Altera tools to the D drive, but my C drive is the primary boot device 

 can you try the command line installer? it might provide more debug information. instructions are somewhere on altera.com

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The command line installer worked. 

 I had to extract the devices file first to an installer dir, then overwrite that data with the programs to get it to run.   I'm guessing that I will have to overwrite the dir once again to install the devices.

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what a headache

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FYI -- The --net options fails to contact some URL at sw-depot.altera.com. 

 As far as I can tell, that never has existed.

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oy vey, that's an internal server at Altera 

 i have instructions on how to fix that

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here are the instructions, season to taste per version of course: 

 Locate altera_installer_windows.xml in the "installer" directory, open it with a text editor. Look for this line:  <download_url type='GET'>http://sw-depot.altera.com/sj/tools/acds/11.1/173</download_url>   and replace it with: <download_url type='GET'>http://download.altera.com/akdlm/software/acds/11.1/173</download_url>.

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this of course is a bug

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I need to install 11.0, because of a bug in sopc builder.  

 I'm using the executable files from the ftp this time.  Trying the very same approach, but with individual product options, this is what I get:     I:\11.0_quartus_windows>altera_installer\bin\altera_installer_cmd --help Usage: altera_installer_cmd.exe [options] Altera Software Installer command-line 11.0  Options:  --version show program's version number and exit  -h, --help show this help message and exit  -i INSTALL, --install=INSTALL  Select which components from the Altera design suite  to install. Multiple instances of this argument are  allowed. Use --all for all components. Possible  choices include: 'quartus' for Quartus II  Subscription Edition; 'quartus_free' for Quartus II  Web Edition; 'nios2eds' for Legacy Package: Nios II  IDE / GCC3 Toolchain / C2H Compiler; 'dsp_builder'  for DSP Builder; 'modelsim_ae' for ModelSim-Altera  Edition; 'modelsim_ase' for ModelSim-Altera Starter  Edition; 'programmer' for the Standalone Quartus II  Programmer; Example: --install=quartus  --install=nios2eds  -a, --all Installs Altera Complete Design Suite; see --install  for list of software installed.  -f, --full Installs Quartus II Subscription Edition, MegaCore (R)  IP Library, and supported device family files.  -w, --web Installs Quartus II Web Edition Edition, MegaCore (R)  IP Library, and supported device family files.  -n, --net Perform a network based installation over the Internet  (default if --source not specified)  -s INSTALLER_DIR, --source=INSTALLER_DIR  Specify the source directory for the installation  files. Example: --source=d:\downloads  -t TARGET_DIR, --target=TARGET_DIR  Specify target or destination directory for the  installed software. Example: --target=c:\altera  --temp=TEMP_DIR Specify temporary directory to store downloaded files.  Default is to use TMP environment variable.  --proxyhost=PROXYHOST  Use specified HTTP proxy in format HOST:PORT. If the  port number is not specified, it is assumed at port  80.  --proxy-digest Use HTTP digest authentication with provided  --username when connecting through specified proxy.  --proxy-basic Use HTTP basic authentication with provided --username  when connecting through specified proxy.  --proxy-ntlm Use NTLM authentication with provided --username when  connecting through specified proxy.  --username=PROXYUSER Specify username for authenticationg through specified  proxy server.  --password=PROXYPASS Specify password with provided --username for  authenticating through specified proxy server.  --program_folder=PROGRAM_FOLDER  Specify program folder name for start menu shortcut.  Default is "Altera".  --remove_temp Option to remove saved installation files after  completion.  --no_space_check Option to skip disk space check.  --gui Option to launch Altera Software Installer GUI mode.  Requires a valid X display on Linux operating systems.  This option is required when using --update.  --download_only Option to download component installer only and  install later.  --update Option to update installed features of an existing  installation. This option must be driven using the  GUI, and requires --gui  --allow_installer_feedback  Allows Altera Software Installer to report  installation statistics to improve quality.  --force, --auto Assumes Yes on all interactive questions to automate  installation sequence.  --inspect Inspects installation to assist in trouble-shooting  installation files. Writes debug data to target  install directory specified by --target.  I:\11.0_quartus_windows>altera_installer\bin\altera_installer_cmd -i quartus -t i:\altera 11.0\ -s i:\11.0_quartus_windows  ************************************************************ ALTERA SOFTWARE INSTALLER (version 11.0) ************************************************************ Error: quartus is not a valid product. Error: quartus is not a valid product.  I:\11.0_quartus_windows>altera_installer\bin\altera_installer_cmd -i 'quartus' -t i:\alter a\11.0\ -s i:\11.0_quartus_windows  ************************************************************ ALTERA SOFTWARE INSTALLER (version 11.0) ************************************************************ Error: 'quartus' is not a valid product. Error: 'quartus' is not a valid product.  I:\11.0_quartus_windows>altera_installer\bin\altera_installer_cmd --install=quartus -t i: altera\11.0\ -s i:\11.0_quartus_windows  ************************************************************ ALTERA SOFTWARE INSTALLER (version 11.0) ************************************************************ Error: quartus is not a valid product. Error: quartus is not a valid product.