Negative hard drive space free...

[Robert17]

Hey all, I'm trying to install Heretic 2 and it says I have negative free space, I've got a SCSI hard disk split 4 ways, and I'm using SFS (as found in BB1) any ideas folks?

Robert

[Piru]

The installer chokes on >2GB free.

See previous discussion for some ideas on how to workaround this.

[Robert17]

But I thought Having OS3.9 and SFS would mean this wasn't an issue, maybe a different installer would not choke?

Robert

[Piru]

OS3.9 and SFS

OS3.9 and SFS won't help you if some app (like the installer) is buggy.

You could try making sure the Installer it uses is the V43 one (or V44/V45 which should work too).

[Hyperspeed]

Since you have SCSI the first thing I'd like to ask is - have you been
using HDToolBox and Phase5's SCSI_Utils?

Two RDB prepping tools being used on the same disk is extremely
dangerous and can give you system messages such as "Error - Disk Block
-128,659 is out of range" as they have different standards for
specifying size ranges in thr RDB.

If you have used two prepping tools then I think it'd be best to save
stuff and re-format the drive.

OS3.9 should have the <4Gb thing fixed... and also the <1Gb per
partition that the old HDToolBox stumbled on.

[Robert17]

All I've used for the disk is HDToolbox that comes with OS3.9, nothing else

[Orjan]

Yes, but if the installer gets confused it won´t matter how you have partitioned/formatted the drive.. So long as the partition is larger than what the installer can "understand" it will always think there is a negative number of MB´s availiable...

Or some-such.. :-)

I´ve seen this happen on old DOS ( PC ) programs aswell.. Long time ago, though... :-)

[itix]

OS3.9 should have the <4Gb thing fixed... and also the <1Gb per

Guys, believe Piru. It is a bug in Installer :-) It cant understand > 4GB partitions.

[Will-i-am]

I have os3.9 on my tower and when I try to get it to accept an old IBM 9g HD I have here....format, partition etc... using the 3.9 HDToolbox I get negative HD space free. The best I have been able to do is two 1.+gig partitions. Since I haven't found a solution the HD is sitting on my desktop as a paperweight. When I look at the number of cylinders and such in it the toolbox gives nonsensical values, most in the negative range.