i have tried installing DO 8.2 on two pcs - one works the other doesn't. the problem i have is that when i launch it i get a window that says, " Windows Installer" and "Preparing to Install...".
Then about ten minutes later the Licence manager appears. I entered the licence data and hit the "install" button. nothing seems to be happening
I have tried uninstalling, reinstalling, in safe mode, logged in as administrator...
PLEASE, PLEASE, HELP ME PLEASE!!!
I am running XP pro version 2002 on the bad machine, and xp pro SP1 on the good machine.
If not, have you tried disabling Firewall/Anti-Virus on the machine that can't launch the installer? ZoneAlarm has been known to cause some problems during install/licence-writing in the past:
I followed those two links - as far as i could see they seem to be solutions to specific error messages. I am not getting any of these error messages - but now i am getting a window that says,
"Install server not responding"
i am running in safe mode with networking - so firewall/antivirus are not running.
The "Install server not responding" error ususally indicates that the Windows Installer service is not started or cannot BE started/spawned for some reason. I wasn't aware that the Opus install packages hooked into MSI... did you download the Opus installer directly from GPSoft website?
AFAIK the Opus install is built with InstallShield 6 (quite an old version) which does not use MSI at all. So I don't think there's any way this message can be coming from Opus.
Maybe try google - just searching for the phrase "Install server not responding" throws up a few results.