Re: Installation Problem with Mathematica 4.2 under Windows XP
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- Subject: [mg98838] Re: Installation Problem with Mathematica 4.2 under Windows XP
- From: Roland Franzius <roland.franzius at uos.de>
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:40:10 -0400 (EDT)
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Dr. Robert Kragler schrieb: > Hi, > > because TechSupport of WRI (who would be primary addressee) does not > respond to my inquiry I redirect my question to MathGroup hoping that > someone may have come across the same problem and knows a work-around. > > On my laptop where I have (only) recently upgraded the operating system > from Windowxs 2000 to XP Professional 2002 SP3 I want to reinstall > Mathematica V 4.2.1 (besides other versions 3.0., 5.2, 6.0 and 7.0) in > order to compare the sometimes different behavior of various versions of > Mathematica with respect to specific procedures / packages e.g. Limit etc. > > Under Windows 2000 there was no problem installing previous versions of > Mathematica (e.g. 3.0, 4.2, 5.2, 6.0 and 7.0) > whereas with Windows XP there occurs an installation problem with > Mathematica V 4.2.1 ONLY (not with the much older version 3.0 from 1998 > !). The corresponding MathInstaller (08/2002) for version 4.2.1 starts > a wizard but after about 18% the following message appears : > > "MathInstaller is unable to run a program needed to proceed with the > installation. Restart your system and try again" ErroR 105. > When I press the OK button then in an "Application Error" window the > following message is displayed : > "ISSET_SE caused a general protection fault in module <unknown> ..." > > Does anyone know what to do in order to enforce the installation of > Mathematica 4.2.1 under Windows XP Professional. (As emphasized above, > no problem under OS Windows 2000 ) > > Thank you for any advice. Try to change the compatibility mode of the installation program to win2k: Right click the installation.exe, choose compatibility and change compatibilty mode to Windows 2000. After installation you have to adjust compatibility mode for the math.exe and mathematica.exe. -- Roland Franzius