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Oliver_I_Sedlacek
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3 years ago
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Quartus Prime Pro 20.1 install hangs

I'm trying to install Quartus Prime Pro 20.1 on a Windows 10 Pro machine and when the progress bar gets to about 55% it hangs and stops responding. CPU activity for the installer sits at 25% (4 core ...
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    Oliver_I_Sedlacek
    3 years ago

    So heads up, the problem was corruption of the .tar file. I'll have to talk with the network experts, but copying the .tar to a network drive does the damage, which I could confirm by checking against the published SHA1 checksum. If I use 7zip to extract from the network version there are no complaints but the install consistently hangs.

    Why the installer doesn't perform any kind of corruption check is a bit surprising in this day and age is somewhat surprising to me. Ditto, why TARs when zips would be easier for most users.

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RichardT_altera
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3 years ago

Have you try to install using the steps below:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/programmable/683472/22-4/installing-from-tar-files.html


That's interesting. I do not aware that copying the .tar to a network drive will corrupt it. Try to untar it first and copy the files inside instead of one tar file.


Found out that copying from one machine to another has the potential to corrupt it.

https://www.datanumen.com/blogs/how-to-repair-a-corrupted-tar-archive-and-access-the-files-within/#:~:text=Much%20like%20any%20other%20sort,from%20one%20machine%20to%20another.