Fw: ghc installer for Windows

[Sigbjorn Finne]

Thanks for the report, forwarded to the bugs list.

It should be noted that the installer currently assumes
that you're an administrator on the machine you're
using.

--sigbjorn

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Eldridge" <see at co.umist.ac.uk>
To: <sof at galois.com>
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 05:25
Subject: ghc installer for Windows


> The current installer for ghc 5.05.1 seems to be faulty.
> Rather to my surprise, I could only select a drive other than
> the boot drive by going into the custom menu. Having selected
> F: I then had to create the directory I wanted - ghc\ghc-5.04 -
> before I could proceed (something apparently unnecessary
> had I accepted the default). Unfortunately, the install then stops
> with the error message that the network location
> \C:\WINNT\Profiles\All Users\Start Menu\.
> could not be accessed. If this message is correct then
> the installer is looking for a malformed address with
> the single backslash preceding the drive letter.
> 
> 
> Stephen Eldridge
> phone: 0161-200-3352    email: see at co.umist.ac.uk
> Department of Computation, UMIST, Manchester M60 1QD