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Re: Glassfish Installation Failed with no message

From: Sathyan Catari <Sathyan.Catari_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:47:07 -0700

Can you do a %JAVA_HOME%\bin\java -version? Is this a JDK installation
or includes a JRE also?
Do you have another version of JDK on this machine to try? If you have
you can try using
-javahome <JDKHome> to see if the installer comes up.

-Sathyan



Ben Dewey wrote:
>
> I’m have trying to install Glassfish v2.1 on my x64 Windows 2008
> VMWare Server.
>
> I've downloaded the following (from
> http://www.sun.com/software/products/appsrvr/get_it.jsp):
> sges-2_1-windows.exe
>
> My JAVA_HOME is set to C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_14.
>
> When launching the setup I get a "could not find the required version
> of the Java Runtime …" message.
>
> If I run:
>
> > sges-2_1-windows.exe -javahome "%JAVA_HOME%"
>
> I get a launching Java Runtime message that goes away with no error
> message or anything.
>
> Does anyone know why I'm having these issues? Is there a log file
> somewhere that I can check (I couldn't find anything in MS Event Viewer)?
>
> -Ben Dewey
>