[Fpga-synth] ISE 9.2i

[Eric Brombaugh]

On Aug 12, 2007, at 5:52 AM, Scott Gravenhorst wrote:

> Yes, in fact, the output from Impact says that it can't find one of 
> the BSD files.
> Yet, when I look with Explorer, it is there.

You didn't put any spaces in the name of the directory you installed 
9.2 in did you? That always causes the Windows-based Xilinx tools to 
fail spectacularly.

>> Overall it sounds like a bad install. I thought zipfiles had checksums
>> in them to bail on corrupt files though, so I'm curious how that's
>> possible.
>
> I was never able to get the entire 1.7 G zip file.  Instead, I did the 
> webinstall
> (which took most of the day yesterday).

I've tried a Web install a few times. On Linux it failed, but it worked 
OK on WinXP.

> I have another disk drive, I may throw that drive into this box, 
> reinstall win2K on
> it and try a fresh 9.2i installation and see what happens.  That's 
> also something I
> really don't care to spend two days on, but I'm running out of choices.
>

Sounds like a good fallback. Tedious though.

Eric