how to install game w/ cabinet file

[adamRB_12]

someone burned my a copy of Thief 3: deadly shadows(it came on 3 discs) and after the first disc gets about 1/2 way done installing this pops up:

feature transfer error
component: gamefiles_us
file: d:\data2.cab
error: data error (cycle redundancy check)

so then i put in the 2nd disk and theres a cabinet file on it and i dont know what to do with it. does anyone know how to install a game this way?

 

[Deleted member 3]

error: data error (cycle redundancy check) <-- means the disk is fucked. Or your reader is of course.

 

[adamRB_12]

yea i think its just the data2 file thatz fucked up. o well.

 

[bruins004]

I dont know if it is the same thing, but Cab files are used when programming SharePoint web parts. Pretty much a cab file contains many files bundled together into one. Thats what they do with map packs which is just put all the maps into one file. Hopefully it wasnt a needed cab file.

 

[Deleted member 3]

Cab means cabinet, it's basically MS-zip(or rar or whatever you prefer). Usually installers just look for a few cabs and unpack them, when they're done they ask for a new CD. You can actually burn all files of such games/programs to a single DVD and it'll work without asking for CD's.
So when you get the read error it simply asks for the file again. Either way, you need readable files.

 

[bruins004]

Yep yep...I just wanted to try to stay away from the word zip bc they are different extensions.