[izpack-users] IzPack hangs while installing a pack on Win98.

[Hal Vaughan]

On Monday 13 February 2006 09:43, Scott Taylor wrote:
> In my install.xml I have defined a pack as follows.
>
> <pack name="JavaComm" required="yes" os="Windows">
>     <singlefile src="javacomm/win32com.dll"
> target="${ENV[WINDIR]}/system32/win32com.dll" override="true"/>
>     <description>Java Communications for Windows</description>
> </pack>
>
> The installer works find on Windows XP and 2000, but when I try to
> install it on Windows 98
> the installer hangs when it tries to install the pack. If I change the
> pack to the following
> by removíng the environment variable the installer no longer hangs.
>
> <pack name="JavaComm" required="yes" os="Windows">
>     <singlefile src="javacomm/win32com.dll"
> target="c:/windows/system32/win32com.dll" override="true"/>
>     <description>Java Communications for Windows</description>
> </pack>
>
> Any ideas what's happening? I notice a msdos window flashes on Win98
> when I use the environment variable
> and just before it hangs.

I'm not an MSDOS expert, so first I'd ask if that particular environment 
variable is used on Win98 normally.  Is it possible it has a different name 
on Win98?

The other thought is that if it won't work this way, is it possible to have a 
script that uses an environment variable copy the files to it from a temp 
directory?

Hal