[TYPO3] DAM Installation error: SQL engine parse ERROR: Field type unknown in parseFieldDef()!: near "float unsigned NOT NULL default '0' "

[Johannes Konert]

Hi,
thanks for the hint. It's the multiply indeed. A simple change to 
multiply 1 and a change of the mysql-tables to utf8 fixed it.
Thanks :)

> Hi.
> 
> Johannes Konert wrote:
>> 1. When trying to install, got a warning "current version 4.0 is less
>> than required version 4.0.0"....hmm, I ignored that.
> 
> Yes. Right decision.
> 
>> 2. Click on Install, brought me
>>      "SQL engine parse ERROR: Field type unknown in parseFieldDef()!:
>> near "float unsigned NOT NULL default '0'" .
> 
> You are using
> [ ] DBAL
> [ ] multiplyDBFieldSize
> 
> If it's DBAL, you need to wait for the fix for
>  http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=2991
> 
> If it is the fieldsize you can wait for the fix on #2991, or not use the
> field size multiplier but switch your database to UTF-8, so it takes care
> of the byte-vs-char stuff itself.
> 
> HTH,
> Karsten