46614 - Installer mis-caculate the require size so I cannot install

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect, P3)

Description

[Frank Tang]

I try to install window 072609 build into my system
My system is Japanese NT 4. (I am not sure what happen on other system.) May
have the same problem.

In the DOS, if I do a DIR, it show me that have 150,306,816 byte of freee space.
When I run the N6Setup, If I click Customize install, it show me
Size Required- 17,324K Size Available- c: 146,176K
If I hit Next and then hit Next (Install everything) then it will prompt me
again and tell me that it require
178,634K and I only have 146,176K. I think somehow the installer is confused. It
does not make sense that we need 178M for the installation. It looks like the
2nd number is about 10 time bigger than the first estimation.

I think this should be nsbeta2

Comment 1

[Frank Tang]

mark nsbeta2. We should do more testing on different machine. It is not
reasonable that we need 170M free disk space to install N6.

Comment 2

[Sean Su]

it's actually accurate.  The size that the installer shows is in Kilobytes, 
which is 1024 bytes (not 1000 bytes).  The size that DOS shows is in bytes.

If you divide 150,306,816 by 1024, you get 146,784K, which is nearly identical 
to what the installer is reporting (146,176K).

I'm going to mark this invalid because it's not a bug.  It's just the way it's 
designed.  If we want to do it a different way, feel free to reopen this bug and 
change the summary or file a new bug.

Comment 3

[Grace Bush]

verified