FW: [Thinkpad] InstallShield glitch in Win98

Greetings:

JIC - My development experiences with Installshield suggest the following:
(NOTE: This applies to packages created with Developer 8, i.e. the fancy
blue skins, but most likely applies to all versions of Developer which use
MSI technology)

1). Temporary Space, i.e. the location of your %TEMP% directory, will
require a mininum size of the existing .exe package + about 10 %. Thus if
your .exe is 50 MB, plan on having 55 free. This is just to unpack the
file. After the installation is complete, these files will most likely end
up in a hidden directory under your %SYSTEMDIR% called installer

2). The package size requirement itself. This value is set during the
package (.exe) creation and utilized/verified during the install. This
space, has to be available on the destination drive. Under certain
circumstances this value may be inaccurate (i.e. not properly configured
during the packaging process) which could make your install cause the
symptom you describe.

Bottom line: I always plan on 2X the requirement (not the package size but
the installation size) with the additional caveat that the %TEMP% path has
at least the package size to create the temp files during the install.
People who do not have enough temp space, usually complain that they have
plenty of free space on a installation location but their C: drive is maxxed
out.

HTH

-----Original Message-----
From: thinkpad-bounces@stderr.org [mailto:thinkpad-bounces@stderr.org]
On Behalf Of Dr. Jeffrey Race
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 2:09 AM
To: Thinkpad Users Group
Subject: [Thinkpad] InstallShield glitch in Win98

Running InstallShield on Win98 to load Update Connector V 5.32,
it halts with error message insufficient space on drive G, free
87.9 mb of space and retry. However from DOS DIR there is >91 mb
free on this drive. Ideas?

Jeffrey Race

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