QuartusII 10.0 installation problem

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I tried to install Quartus II V10.0 web edition on several computers with Windows XP SP3 without any success....

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** So my question**: When do you expect the release of new Windows installer for Quartus II 10.0 web edition V10? :)

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After sending my previous post I tried to correct windows path and then, I finally added Cyclone II device. In spite of my success, the installation was too complicated, so I am still interesting in release date of new installer version for Quartus II 10.0 web edition.:)

Richard

Altera recently published a command line solution in their knowledge base. I think this should be the command line workaround provided by them.

http://www.altera.com/support/kdb/solutions/rd07212010_875.html (http://www.altera.com/support/kdb/solutions/rd07212010_875.html)

Susta, i think the command line examples will install the device families as well. I notice that they use "all" option which i assume a full install.

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Altera recently published a command line solution in their knowledge base. I think this should be the command line workaround provided by them.

Susta, i think the command line examples will install the device families as well. I notice that they use "all" option which i assume a full install.

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Hmm. I am having a similar problem getting a part install to work. There is no AVG involved. I shall try the command line option and see if it works.

TNX

Pete

Some feedback:

The command line install from Stewart Little didn't work for me ( same problem as with the gui) but the line from nplttr did (of course I had to change the directories for my set up):

altera_installer_cmd.exe --target=c:\altera\10.0 -s C:\...\Temp\10.0_quartus_free_windows --install=quartus_free -w

Unfortunately probably due to previous install attempts the device libraries I wanted were shown as installed ... but actually weren’t and I couldn't change this in the gui ( it kept skipping the install). In this case the command line from Stewart worked a treat except that I had to call quartus_sh from c:\altera\10.0\quartus\bin\ and not from the temp directory. And one more thing: when I first tried to choose the source directory I couldn’t click on “next” in order to continue- after clicking the network installation button and then reselecting the directory installation button it worked).

After all that effort when I compile I still crashes during compile with the same AMERGE error as in 91sp2. But that’s a project specific problem.

For installing only Cyclone II support, I have successfully tested installations on several different Windows computers by my batch file, see below.

Usage:

1. To unpack files, run the first steps of installations of Quartus II web, ModelSim SE, and Nios.

2. Edit SETs of directories in beginning batch file, if you unpacked files in different directories.

3. Fill your proxy address. I did not actually test, if a proxy setting is required, may be not.

4. Add other devices, if you need. I created batch for installing only cycloneii.qda.

5. Store corrected bat file for example as SETUP.BAT into root directory of a drive. (I have created the DVD image file *.iso by NERO that I open as a virtual drive for installations).

Richard

----------------- Batch file for windows----------------

IF "%1" == "" GOTO NO-PARAMS Prompts if No Parameter was Specified

IF "%2" == "" GOTO NO-PARAMS Prompts if No Parameter was Specified

SETLOCAL

SET quartus_source_drive=%1

SET quartus_dest_drive=%2

SET quartus_source=%quartus_source_drive%:\10.0_quartus_free_windows

SET quartus_sourcems=%quartus_source_drive%:\10.0_modelsim_ase_windows

SET quartus_sourceni=%quartus_source_drive%:\10.0_nios2eds_windows

SET quartus_target=%quartus_dest_drive%:\altera\10.0

SET temp_dir=C:\Temp

SET proxy=your.proxy.server:port

%quartus_source_drive%:

cd %quartus_source%

"altera_installer\bin\altera_installer_cmd.exe" --install=quartus_free --web --source="%quartus_source%" --target="%quartus_target%" --temp="%temp_dir%" --proxy=%proxy% --no_space_check

cd %quartus_source%\devices\subscription

"%quartus_target%\quartus\bin\quartus_sh.exe" --qinstall -qda cycloneii.qda -show_qt_progress

cd %quartus_sourcems%

"altera_installer\bin\altera_installer_cmd.exe" --install=modelsim_ase --source="%quartus_sourcems%" --target="%quartus_target%" --temp="%temp_dir%" --proxy=%proxy% --no_space_check

cd %quartus_sourceni%

"altera_installer\bin\altera_installer_cmd.exe" --install=nios2eds --source="%quartus_sourceni%" --target="%quartus_target%" --temp="%temp_dir%" --proxy=%proxy% --no_space_check

ENDLOCAL

@echo ********************** Done *************************

@GOTO END

:NO-PARAMS

@ECHO ====================================================

@ECHO The installation of

@ECHO 1) Quartus II 10.0 Web Edition,

@ECHO 2) ModelSim-Altera Start Edition

@ECHO 3) Nios II Embedded Design Suite

@ECHO into destination directory DestDriveLetter:\altera\10.0

@ECHO .

@ECHO Usage: setup.bat SourceDriveLetter DestDriveLetter

@ECHO Example: setup.bat D C

@ECHO ====================================================

:END

@pause

I just notice Altera released a new version of their Windows installers. I have created a new thread for this.

altera installer v10.0 rev2 released (http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24762)

I have a different problem when I try to install Quartus 10.0.

It says "some installation files are corrupt. please download a fresh copy and retry the installation" . I've download the file twice but it doesn't work.

I've tried with the Altera Design Suite v10.0 for Windows (Altera Installer) but it doesn't work either, this time the problem is that the download stops in 1% during hours.

Does anyone know what is happening?

try running the installer through the command line. you can find instructions on the installation FAQ:

http://www.altera.com/download/10.0/dnl-v10-download-installation-faq.html