topic Re: Cant install ac11 in Installation & update

Cant install ac11

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 13:07:03 GMT

Im trying to install AC 11 on another computer (windows xp) But the computer refuses to recognize the instalation cd. It neither lets me see the files through windows explorer. The computer is a little bit old (around 5 years). I need to install AC 11 in this computer because this computer is directly attached to the plotter. althought we could plot wirelessly through the network it is much faster to plot using this computer. I could install AC 10 8 months ago on this computer without a problem. I have administrator privileges and log in using administrator password. I have already used this cd to install the program on my personal computer without problems. I loaded this cd on my personal computer again to see if it was damaged, but the instalation procedures work perfectly. I wonder whats wrong....

Re: Cant install ac11

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:08:27 GMT

I don't know what might be causing your install problems, but if all you need the computer to do is speed up your plotting you can download PlotFlow.

This will give you an easy plot server. Just drag and drop or send the files directly to the spool folder (on the plot server) and they plot right out. There is even the handy function of collating the plots by dragging sets repeatedly for as many sets as you want (just make sure the file names alphabetize in the correct order).

Re: Cant install ac11

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:09:35 GMT

Thanx Mathew.
But there are some instances where I want to look at the project and make a small fix before plotting.

Im looking at the internet to find out why the ac11 cd doesnt want to install on this particular computer. What a strange problem! It even doent let me see the setup.exe from explorer! The ac10 disk works perfectly
(I tried again)

Re: Cant install ac11

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:12:58 GMT

jocontreras wrote:
Thanx Mathew.
But there are some instances where I want to look at the project and make a small fix before plotting.

Why can't you do that on the machine generating the plots?

Re: Cant install ac11

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:42:26 GMT

Hi Jo,

I bet the installation problem is that AC11 is supplied on a DVD whilst AC10 was on a CD. I suspect you only have a CD drive in your old PC!! (I'm talking from experience here!! )

The workaround is to copy the contents of the disk onto a shared drive on the network using another machine with a DVD drive.

Then you can install on your old machine from the network with no problems!

Hope that helps.

Pete.

Re: Cant install ac11

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:16:54 GMT

Thats it!
thank you