Are there any workarounds for the low disk space while installing error?

[fryl...@gmail.com]

Whenever I install something that requires a minimum disk space, it
brings up an error saying

Your c: drive has [blank] MB left, you need to free up space

or something to the like. I've searched around, and I've seen no
straight answers. Is there a workaround for this, or is installing
windows programs with minimum disk space requirements off limits?

[Aggro]

If you run the program from console, do you get any errors/warnings/etc.
printed out? Something about stubs for example? And what program are you
talking about and can one download it (legally) from somewhere?

[Daniel Skorka]

fryl...@gmail.com wrote:
> Whenever I install something that requires a minimum disk space, it
> brings up an error saying
>
> Your c: drive has [blank] MB left, you need to free up space

Usually, this works. However, a combination of old programs and great
amounts of free space can result in integer overflows. In this case, a
workaround is to create a small loopback filesystem for the
installation. You can even mount it under ~/.wine/drive_c/...

Daniel
--
Read the Wine FAQ: http://winehq.org/site/docs/wine-faq/index
Read the Wine User Guide: http://winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/index
When you post:
Which wine version? Self compiled or prepackaged?

[Mantar, Feyelno nek dusa]

On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:57:24 +0000, Daniel Skorka wrote:

> fryl...@gmail.com wrote:
>> Whenever I install something that requires a minimum disk space, it
>> brings up an error saying
>>
>> Your c: drive has [blank] MB left, you need to free up space
>
> Usually, this works. However, a combination of old programs and great
> amounts of free space can result in integer overflows. In this case, a
> workaround is to create a small loopback filesystem for the installation.
> You can even mount it under ~/.wine/drive_c/...

I think there's a registry setting that will specify how much free space
to report, too.

[dank]

Which applications, exactly, and which version of Wine?

I fixed a bug in Wine last year that caused exactly this symptom
for old win16 applications like Lotus 1 2 3 R5.
- Dan

[kiy...@gmail.com]

from the low disk space warning message, you can know there is no available free space in your C drive. you need to move free space from other partitions to it: http://www.disk-partition.com/resource/free-partition-magic-for-windows7.html

[sparrow...@gmail.com]

Get a flash drive or an external harddrive and transfer all data files to your external hard drive or your flash drive. Datafiles would be things like pictures, video, Word docs , pdfs, spreadsheets ect. If you have a lot of data files on your hard drive this will free up significant space. That may help but be warned do not install up to the limit of your available space with windows apps. Particularly this is the case with older computers that use your disk drive for virtual memory If you use up all of your disk space with memory you will find things like your virus protection program and defragging your hard drive and other behind the scenes programs just don't work. Even you operating system will become unresponsive. Try to leave from 500mb to 1 gig free on your hard drive. If you can't do this and you don't to mess with flash drives(why when they are so cheap) and you don't want to get an external hard drive you need to consider getting a new computer.