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Taldrenites => General Starfleet Command Forum => Topic started by: Death_Merchant on December 28, 2014, 10:52:12 pm
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Hey Guys.....
On a lark, I was installing SFC3 on my Mac using Wine. The installer chokes with the old "wtf is a hard disk doing with more than 1GB of space" error.
ie. It thinks there is insufficient disk space available (as in -2GB)
Any workaround besides building a tiny portion to install on?
Thx, and Merry Xmas!
DM
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Fill the excess space.
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I couldn't see the forest for the trees...
That's so simple and non-glamorous....it may actually work. Thanks.
I'll find the biggest file I have, make a gazzilion copies, then try again.
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No problem glad you think it may help.
I've never played SFC3 or used a Mac so I was not sure if it is the disk space or the partition size so I looked at the problem backwards. I considered other (probably not possible) ideas like installing to a ramdrive or a compressed virtual disk area but don't know if the software is available still for those options.
Good luck.
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It really has nothing to do with being on a Mac or even using Wine.
The problem is an old Taldren bug I've seen before and on other older (mostly DOS-based) programs
The command to identify available disk space was written well before drives > 1GB were available.
......so it barfs out a negative number when querying such drives.
When coding in MS Virtual Basic back in the day (yea...don't ask), you'd write around that by error trapping for a neg number.
Taldren didn't do that with SFC3
Hence my head scratching some 14 years later.....