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From: Igor Djordjevic <igor.d.djordjevic@gmail.com>
To: Phil Martel <pomartel@comcast.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem installing Git (followup)
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 01:12:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55436c77-89f7-8f18-18a3-ca75a5ff96cb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d95405e-7c95-88b2-2481-bb7990c5b8b5@comcast.net>

Hi Phil,

On 24/11/2017 00:44, Phil Martel wrote:
> On 11/23/2017 4:30 PM, Igor Djordjevic wrote:
>> On 23/11/2017 19:51, Phil Martel wrote:
>>> I'm trying to install Git-2.15.0-64-bit.exe onto my Windows 10 
>>> machine.  When I run this installer program no matter what 
>>> options I try or whether I run as administrator it ends up with 
>>> an error box saying "The drive or UNC share you selected does 
>>> not exist or is not accessible. Please select another".  I do 
>>> not see any way of selecting a drive.  Any suggestions?
>> 
>> Do you already have "Git for Windows" installed? If so, does it work
>> if you try uninstalling it first?
> 
> That solved my problem.  I apparently had enough cruft left over 
> from a hard disk issue for Windows to think I still had a copy of 
> Git installed.  when I got rid of it, the new version installed
> with no problems.
> 
> Thanks again,

No problem, it was more of a lucky shot, but glad it helped :)

Regards, Buga

p.s. When discussing here, it`s more customary to quote inline, instead of top-posting[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-24  0:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-23 18:51 Problem installing Git Phil Martel
2017-11-23 21:30 ` Igor Djordjevic
     [not found]   ` <001a1148fe243ade02055ead2599@google.com>
2017-11-23 21:41     ` Delivery Status Notification (Failure) Igor Djordjevic
2017-11-23 23:35   ` Problem installing Git Phil Martel
2017-11-23 23:44   ` Problem installing Git (followup) Phil Martel
2017-11-24  0:12     ` Igor Djordjevic [this message]
2017-11-25 22:16   ` Problem installing Git Johannes Schindelin
2017-11-26 12:15     ` Igor Djordjevic
2017-11-27 21:12     ` Phil Martel

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