Issue 74867 - Windows 2003: Directory mapped diskspace/network drive not detected - install fails
Summary: Windows 2003: Directory mapped diskspace/network drive not detected - install...
Status: CLOSED WONT_FIX
Alias: None
Product: General
Classification: Code
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: current
Hardware: All Windows Server 2003
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: OOo 3.0
Assignee: joerg.skottke
QA Contact: issues@framework
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Reported: 2007-02-26 09:29 UTC by joerg.skottke
Modified: 2008-06-17 12:16 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description joerg.skottke 2007-02-26 09:29:53 UTC 
Description:

With Windows 2003 it is possible to attach network resources or local drives to
any location in a directory structure - which would correspond to "mounting a
volume" on UNIX.

If such a "mounted" volume exists, we do not detect that and thus get incorrect
information about the drive capacity which might lead to an installation failure.

Example:
- There are 200MB of free disk space on drive C:
- The volume D: is mapped to "C:\Program files" with a capacity of several GB free.

Our installation routine will only report 200MB of free disk space and does not
allow installation.
Comment 1 ingo.schmidt-rosbiegal 2007-02-26 10:12:47 UTC 
IS -> JSK: The detection of disc capacities is done by the Windows Installer
Service. This is not our code. Therefore there is nothing we can do. Perhaps we
need an up-to-date version of Windows Installer Service, if we want to support
this. Which version of Windows Installer do you have on your system?
Comment 2 joerg.skottke 2007-08-03 08:31:35 UTC 
Moving target forward to 2.4, this is not going to make it into 2.3.
Need time to evaluate again, testing environmant is not available at this time.
Comment 3 joerg.skottke 2007-11-28 11:59:38 UTC 
Forward to 3.0
Comment 4 fireba11 2008-05-06 12:53:24 UTC 
it's valid for XP too, can't edit the issue myself

as mentioned, free space is checked on the drive not the actual used folder
which may on another partition altogether.
Comment 5 joerg.skottke 2008-06-17 12:16:26 UTC 
Yep, this is correct but it is a problem with the Windows Installer, not the office.

Please file an issue against the MSI installer@Microsoft.
Comment 6 joerg.skottke 2008-06-17 12:16:58 UTC 
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