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20040304: Radar charts

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  • Subject: 20040304: Radar charts
  • Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 16:37:42 -0700
>From: "Allen Becker" <address@hidden>
>Organization: 
>Keywords: 200403041609.i24G9ArV022476 IDV installation problems

Allen-

>thanks for your help; my comments are below:

No problem.

>I was looking at reflectivity images.

Okay.  2D or 3D?

>> >I tried your suggestion of downloading the 1.1.b.2 version (for =
>Windows); I
>> >had been using the 1.0.1 version.   However, after I downloaded the
>> >installer and run it, it gets to about 99% of the way through, and =
>then asks
>> >me to find another place to extract the files to .    Any ideas?
>>=20
>> What are the specs for your system (memory, free disk space, etc)?
>> The only thing I can think of is that you don't have enough free
>> disk space.
>
>Don, I have a Pentium-4 running Windows 98_SE, with 512 mbytes of RAM, a =
>hard drive with 66 gigabytes free.  A system check reveals (after I =
>CTRL-ALT-DEL all programs to turn them off, to enable easier =
>installation) that I have 420 mbytes of available RAM.   So, I can't =
>think of what the problem is.   Maybe I should download a different =
>version of the installer (but I have the =
>"idv_1_1b2_windows_d3d_i586_installer.exe".

You could try the OpenGL verion, but I don't think it would make a
difference.  I'm stumped on this one.  If it was XP, I could think
it would be a permissions problem.    Do you log in as someone
other than the system administrator?

I'll think about other possibilities, but for now, I'm stumped.

Don
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