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Honored ContributorSo, I've actually found the 10.1 download area by clicking around links on the site. I'll try again with 10.1 instead of 11.
... which leads me to another rant, sorry... Now I can't *uninstall* 11.0. There is a folder on my (previously virgin) disk named 'C:/altera/11.0/nios2eds/bin' that is read-only (to administrators, of which I am one), that cannot be removed. I've been googling away, and so far I've tried: - Taking ownership of the directory and trying to delete. Nope. - using the commandline to delete. Nope. - running the commandline as Administrator and trying to delete. Nope. - Changing the permissions away from read-only. Denied. - Running chkdisk. Everything passes. So, I'm stuck with a vestigial folder that I can't get rid of. I don't know if this is a Windows-7 problem or an Altera-installer problem, but it's annoying either way. At this point, my mind is blown. WTF were Microsoft thinking to even make this situation possible ??? Jeez. ... ok, rant over. I'm going to lay this one at Microsoft's feet anyway - hey, I'm a Mac user, I'm biased! :) Presumably 10.1 won't install anything into a folder with an 11.0 in it, so as long as I never upgrade, I'll be fine :rolleyes: Thanks for the help, Dave. I don't know tcl, that's one of the languages I've managed to not use over the last couple of decades, but I'll add it to the list of things to learn... At this point, I just want some good news, so I'm going to try following the tutorial with 10.1, and if I can get that to work, I'll start digging in and getting more of the low-level knowledge that eventually leads to understanding :) Cheers Simon
