207996 - installer insists on 24519kb required in directory winnt\system32

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Rusty]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 4.0; U) Opera 6.04  [en]
Build Identifier: mozilla win 32 1..4rc1 stub installer .exe

 Attempting to install 1.4 mozilla release on a NT4.0 machine with a chosen 
install path of  "f:\mozilla14"   
 answer yes > to create directory 
choosing  "Custom" directory to exclude chatzilla

The install program finds:
"Setup has detected insufficient disk space
d:\winnt\system32
required 24519 kb
available 14656kb
Click OK to go back and choose a different destination

 Of course this amount of dll's or any other files should not be going into the winnt directory. I would like to test mozilla1.4 for its proxy server capability, but I guess not if it cant be installed to a freestanding directory

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.under nt4 select a named directory which is not even on the drive that contains  WINNT
2.
3.



Expected Results:  
install to the designated newly named directory instead of targeting the winnt\system32  directory as a destination for 24 megabytes

Comment 1

[Sean Su]

I think it meant to say "d:\temp".  Is your %TEMP% dir on d: drive?  How much
free space do you have on that drive?

Comment 2

[Rusty]

  The  temp variable (for user logged in and installing) is defined as   "f:TEMP"

To survive with  running NT4 from a 500 meg boot partition, the temp variable
was reset eons ago to a separate drive.
along with the swap page file which points to a g:drive/partition.
    There is a TEMP folder in   root of  d:
   and also a TEMP  within d:winnt\
which are unused remnants of past programs having zero and
49k of contents respectively.
but not associated with any defined %TEMP%

 I guess  the installer has been altered significantly from 1.3.0 and 1.3.1
I notice in 1.3.1 installer the custom selection buttons don't function, which is
another reason why I had wanted to try 1.4  where at  least the custom buttons
do function.   However in the 1.4 installer, the  described  barrier to install occurs
regardless of election of  a full install, common install or custom install.
I don't want to install over my mozilla 1.3.0 directory  which is default location
...which is the reason why  I named an new mozilla target to be created for this
install attempt

Thanks
Rusty

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

no blocker (workaround : .zip build)

Comment 4

[Sean Su]

is your [Common Files] folder in d:\program files\common files?
If it is, it means that the GRE is the one requiring the disk space.  Granted it
should be showing d:\program files\common files instead of d:\winnt\system32.

unfortunately, right now there isn't a way to specify where the GRE should be
installed to.  It will always go into the [Common files] folder.

As a work around, you can try passing "-greLocal" to the installer.  This will
tell it to install GRE in the same dir as mozilla (wherever you chose it to be).

See if this works for you.

Comment 5

[Rusty]

 There is a directory d:\program files\common files
 I reran in   command shell  with the "  -greLocal"  appended to the 1.4 installer
name separated by a space.   The installer runs and still offers the same failure
point . It accurately sees 19gig available on the winnt partition (but not enough for its purposes of ~24gig (which I don't entirely understand))

 I am wondering what the  "GRE" is.
 I have since installed Netscape7 along with the Java runtime which went into
the directory designated for the installation.  Is the gre a variant of  jre or some other tools?

Thanks

Comment 6

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

This is pretty old. Still problems with 1.5 or later?

pi

Comment 7

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

No answer. Closing as WFM.

pi