4Mar/111
Installing devices in Quartus 10
Again, Quartus and Linux: the eternal fighting.
Today's episode: where the hell are my devices? Why I'm getting "No devices installed" ?
Ok, so you have installed Quartus and, in your first project, you realize that don't have any device available. It's possible install only devices you realy need using quartus_sh script.
All devices has .qda extensions and are available inside "devices/subscription" directory, created during installation.
./quartus_sh --qinstall -qda /(directory_to_devices)/cyclone.qda ./quartus_sh --qinstall -qda /(directory_to_devices)/cycloneii.qda ./quartus_sh --qinstall -qda /(directory_to_devices)/(your_device_here).qda
Detail: sometimes you could get some error, but just repeat the command that should works.
April 21st, 2011 - 12:13
I’m trying to install devices, but I couldn’t. Always I get an error at the end of the process in “red words”:
Error: ERROR: Failed to restore “/media/ALTERA_10.0_LINUX/devices/subscription/stratixiii.qda” because some files could not be processed. Refer to “/media/ALTERA_10.0_LINUX/devices/subscription/stratixiii.qdalog”.
Error: Failed to install /media/ALTERA_10.0_LINUX/devices/subscription/stratixiii.qda — make sure you specified a valid Quartus II Device Archive (.qda) file
Error: Evaluation of Tcl script /home/fernando/altera/10.0/quartus/common/tcl/apps/qpm/qinstall.tcl unsuccessful
Error: Quartus II Shell was unsuccessful. 3 errors, 0 warnings
Error: Peak virtual memory: 81 megabytes
Error: Processing ended: Thu Apr 21 10:09:03 2011
Error: Elapsed time: 00:00:00
Error: Total CPU time (on all processors): 00:00:00
Also I tried with the files in the harddrive, an I got the same Error.
Can you give some advice?