Name: dk30142 Date: 01/23/2003


Document that the J2RE 1.4.1_01 Installation Notes needs to
be updated to say 54 MB available disk space is required.

Subject: Re: determining how much space is required to install the windows-i586 1.4.1_01
J2RE...

Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:20:57 -0500
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I agree that the installer should never proceed and finish successfully, when there were
problems with disk space for unpacking the files. It should check for this during the
installshield professional 6.03 gui part. I was pretty sure that we fixed and tested this
in hopper. Maybe there are still some problems with it, or the size may have jumped in
1.4.1_01. I will file a bug, and we need to update the docs to say that we need 54MB.

-Bill

Dale McDuffie wrote:
>
> The text states 40M free disk space, but that is not sufficient -
> 54M is a closer value.
>
> Please note, however, that the installer only checks for free space values
> of 9.31 initially and 9.84 later - it seems to only be looking for what it
> needs to do at the current time -- my guess is the 9.31 is first to extract
> the compressed files, and the second one is the ishield extraction. These
> checks are insufficient, however, because the actual install does require
> about 54M, which is never checked for.
>
> I think we need to add a check that will ensure success.
>
> Dale
>
> William Harnois wrote:
> >
> > Hi Dale,
> >
> > You can find the jre/sdk documented disk space info at:
> >
> > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/jre/install-windows.html
> > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/install-windows.html
> >
> > What exactly do you mean by "A little further in the install"? First, the package-for-the-web extracts the compressed installer files (you will see one dialog box with a progress bar). Secondly, the the setup.exe is launched and you will see a small dialog box on the bottom right of the screen while the splash screen is showing. This is the actual installshield professional 6.03 extracting the files further. If all of your cases below are in either of these 2 phases, then they are installshield problems that we have no control over.
> >

--
Bill


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