J2SE v1.4.2 and NetBeans bundle installation freezes at 8% completion.

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Usano - 15 Dec 2003 17:14 GMT

When installing the Java 2 v1.4.2 and NetBeans bundle on WinME, the
installation program freezes at 8%, just after opening and closing an
MSDOS window for COMMAND.COM.

The window switches from decompressing files to "Preparing J2SDK 1.4.2
components for installation. Please wait...", then it just stops.

Tried four times now. Waited about 1/2 hour each time for it to do
something. Searched DejaNews (Google) for anything in the Java groups
related to this, and found one previous post in this group about the
same problem on WinXP. The answer there was that it was probably a
bad zip file.

Although the byte count on the file I downloaded matched the file size
at Sun's site exactly, I thought perhaps it could still be a bad
download, so I re-downloaded. Same problem.

Can't think but that the registry is getting all messed up!

Anyone have any solution to this problem.

Thank you very much,
-- Usano

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Thomas Schodt - 15 Dec 2003 17:27 GMT

Drop the bundle.

Download and install the SDK.
Then download and install netbeans.

Worked for me.

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Usano - 15 Dec 2003 17:49 GMT

Wow! Rapid response. Thank you very much. I go to try this right
now :-!

>Drop the bundle.
>
>Download and install the SDK.
>Then download and install netbeans.
>
>Worked for me.

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Usano - 15 Dec 2003 20:03 GMT

Success! Who 'da man? Thoma Schodt 'da man! Got the SDK, installed
with no problem. Same with netBeans. Started it up and ran sample
programs.

Thank you very much for your help Thomas, I really appreciate it :-D.

-- Usano

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Peter Bradley - 15 Dec 2003 18:23 GMT

> When installing the Java 2 v1.4.2 and NetBeans bundle on WinME, the
> installation program freezes at 8%, just after opening and closing an
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> Thank you very much,
> -- Usano

Had the same problem (on Windows XP).

If Thomas's solution doesn't work, try running whatever uninstall proggies
you have to uninstall netbeans and J2SDK. Then go to the Control Panel |
Add/Remove Programs and remove anything that looks even vaguely java-ish.
This should sort the Registry out. Then try re-installing. If you've
downloaded a JRE plugin and deleted it whilst doing the above, you'll have
to put that back too.

Don't accept NetBeans default paths. Make sure your JDK and NetBeans
executable are on paths with no spaces in them (or the IDE debugger may not
work).

As Thomas says, it worked for me.

HTH

Peter

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