| Title: | note 3 has pointer to current kit |
| Notice: | note 3 has pointer to current kit |
| Moderator: | PEACHS::GHEFF |
| Created: | Wed May 29 1991 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3301 |
| Total number of notes: | 14905 |
Hi,
A customer is trying to instal Excursion v 2.0 on his PC running
Windows NT 4.0. Shortly after he starts the installation, setup
fails with the following msg:
"Insufficient disk space on drive" (and then displays -480 MB
[-> negative value !!!] ).
HW/SW Configuration is:
Pentium PC with 4 GB disk
Windows NT 4.0 (SP?)
Excursion 2.0
Several other users there are running this version of Excursion on
Windows NT 4.0 without problems. The only difference seems to be the
size of disk on to which this user is trying to instal Excursion.
This leads me on to ask the following questions:
Q1) Is Excursion 2.0 supported on NT 4.0?
Q2) Does Excursion have a problem installing on very large disks (4 GB
in this case)?
Q3) Would Excursion 2.1 manage this installation?
All help appreciated!
Thanks,
Bjarne :-)
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3235.1 | 2.1-309 installed no problem ... | OSLLAV::BJARNEC_P | The last boat left without me ..... | Fri Feb 14 1997 09:16 | 11 |
Hi again,
Well, the customer just phoned me back. He found 2.1-309 of excursion
and this version installed on the large disk without any problems. So
I guess Excursion 2.0 must have had some problems with the size of the
disk .....
Regards,
Bjarne :-)
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| 3235.2 | PEACHS::GHEFF | Got a head with wings | Fri Feb 14 1997 10:38 | 12 | |
In fact, I'm surprised that 2.1 worked. I could swear I talked to at
least one 2.1 customer with a 3G+ drive who couldn't install for the
same reason. I think this one's still in the QAR database. I'll
bet you that by the time he'd gotten around to trying 2.1 he'd already
filled up enough of the disk so that the free space calculator would
work correctly. (I'm sure I remember looking at the 2.1 source code
and seeing that some of the intermediate variables designed to hold
the free space count were too small and precision was being lost.)
#Gary
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| 3235.3 | Use a hug page file to fool it. | KANATA::TOMKINS | Fri Feb 14 1997 22:24 | 7 | |
Yeah well.
MS SQL V6.0, I got all these negative numbers during an install, so I
figured, problem, eh? Well, MS SQL V6.5 comes along and, guess what,
more negative numbers. Looks like MS don't care to fix it, so why
worry. To Install LinkWorks V3.08, I had to make a 3GB page file in
Windows NT, so that LinkWorks could get aorund it's negative numbers.
rtt
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| 3235.4 | i think this problem fixed in excursion 3.0 | JAMIN::OSMAN | Eric Osman, dtn 226-7122 | Thu Mar 13 1997 15:53 | 14 |
I seem to recall that we found some sort of disk space calculation
in the excursion setup script that had an overflow. I think our
solution was to change a calculation such as this:
(a*b)/c
to
(a/c)*b
The second calculation is has less overflow problems (at the expense
of accuracy)
/Eric
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