solution: IE6 setup says "The download location information is damaged"

[James Hawkins]

On 6/20/06, James Hawkins <truiken at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> If you're still having this problem, please make sure you are not on a
> remote or network-mounted drive.  IE6 setup checks if the drive is
> remote, and will not install if it is, complaining with the completely
> non-related error that "The download location information is damaged."
>  If you're not sure whether you're on a remote drive or not, and the
> IE6 setup is still not working, please post back and attach a +volume
> trace.  I was frustrated that the setup was not working on my work
> machine, while it was on my home machine.  Reading through a +all log
> showed that GetDriveTypeW was returning 4 for my work machine, which
> is DRIVE_REMOTE, and then it would fail with the message box.  Hacking
> GetDriveTypeW to always return DRIVE_FIXED let me install onto my
> remote drive.
>

Alternatively, you can go into winecfg->Drives->Show Advanced and
change the Type from Autodetect to "Local hard disk".

-- 
James Hawkins