From: loki AT dragoncat DOT net (Jeremy Blackman) Subject: Re: cdk.exe install problem 4 Aug 1997 23:13:02 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Original-To: Michael Scheer Original-cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Michael Scheer wrote: > I downloaded the beta18 cdk.exe. The installation fails early on with > the following error from installshield: > > "The decompression of %s failed. There may no be enough free disk > space in the TEMP directory." > > But I've got over 700 meg free in the volume holding $TEMP. Ideas? > Thanks. I oughtta make a template for this sort of reply. ;) [deep breath, into rehearsed speech] Having had to build one too many InstallShield setups at my workplace, I can tell you that this is a bug in InstallShield, not a bug in Cygnus' installer. If you have more than a certain number of files in your TEMP directory - or if you have files named the same thing InstallShield wishes to name its files (probably from past runs of other InstallShield install scripts) which it cannot, for some reason, write over - InstallShield will fail. And not gracefully, either - this failure is indicated by that dialog box you mentioned. :) Clearing out your TEMP directory entirely should do it - that will get rid of both any files with conflicting names, and the potential 'too many files' problem. :) [out of rehearsed reply] Hope that helps! - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".