Illustrator CS3 install troubles

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Chris Corbyn
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Illustrator CS3 install troubles

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For some reason on my Mac Mini, the Adobe Illustrator CS3 installation bails. On my Macbook it works fine. Has anyone seen this before? It goes something like this:

* Mount .dmg image, run "Setup.app"
* Progress bar shows "Installing Shared Components", gets to about 95%, then halts with the message:
Installation complete, some problems occured:

Successfully Installed:
* Shared Components

Not installed
* Illustrator CS3
* Shared Components
InDesign CS3 trial does exactly the same thing. I'm completely baffled. The OS X system log shows the last event as "Setup, not responding".

I'm wondering if it's because the Macbook as 1G of RAM, whereas the Mac Mini has only 512MB. The requirements are 1GB, but I'd expect a more meaningful error if I have run out of memory... particularly an error produced by OS X rather than the installer. Googling seems to show up nothing.

These are the 30 day trial downloads from adobe.com, and the only Intel Native versions of the products :(
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I seem to have found a workaround, although I'm not sure what the legalities are with doing the install like this (trial version only). I've essentially copied it from one mac to te other:

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scp -r /Applications/Adobe\ Illustrator\ CS3 192.168.1.xxx:/Applications/
scp -r /Library/Application\ Support/Adobe 192.168.1.xxx:/Library/Application\ Support/
It works fine... no idea why the installer wouldn't work... very weird.
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