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MajorNewbie
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May 2, 2008
Question

Install on Linux failed!

  • May 2, 2008
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I purchased a media distro kit for ColdFusion 8 and attempted to install it on a stock standard Centos 5.1 linux box which is using Apache. The latest stable versions and all other things work well.

I copied coldfusion-80-lin.bin to the /home directory and chmod-ed it to 777, then I tried to install using ./coldfusion-80-lin.bin
I got the following message: "The included VM could not be extracted, please try to download the installer again and make sure you download using the "binary" mode. Please do not attempt to install this downloaded copy.

I did not download it, I bought the distro kit, on DVD.

Does anyone know what is going on?
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Daverms
Inspiring
May 2, 2008
Hi,

Which flavour of linux you are having there?.
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MajorNewbieAuthor
Participant
May 2, 2008
CentOS 5.1

It has the same kernel as RedHat, and it has Apache on it, which is up and running ready for ColdFusion. I also have FIrefox on it for testing. Other than that, not much else.

# uname -a
returns following info: Linux name.<my-domain>.com 2.6.18-53 1.14.el5 #1 <date> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

O yeah, yum-med latest update for gcc
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Amiable_Penguin15D5
Participating Frequently
May 7, 2008
By chance are you running it on an Intel Itanium? The original Itanium with no 32-bit support? Or is your 64-bit OS not setup with 32-bit support?

I ask because I got the same message when I tried to install CF 6 on an Itanium years ago. The VM that the installer unpacks is 32-bit and since the original Itanium doesn't have a 32-bit mode, I couldn't run the thing.

I was going to install it in J2EE configuration, so I had to run the installer on another machine to create the EAR file. I then just FTP'd the file to the Itanium server, dropped it into JBoss and I was up and running in no time.
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Daverms
Inspiring
May 2, 2008
Hi,

Its due to the insuffcient diskspace on /tmp folder. Please free up it on /tmp and have a retry...

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MajorNewbieAuthor
Participant
May 2, 2008
There's 1Gigabyte in /tmp and only a handful of small files.
It is a brand new linux machine.

I removed the handful of small files and still get the same error message!
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