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Bug 179652 - Disk space check is too early
Summary: Disk space check is too early
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 136013
Alias: None
Product: installer
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Code (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: All Windows XP
: P2 normal (vote)
Assignee: dlipin
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Reported: 2010-01-19 01:15 UTC by artisan
Modified: 2010-01-20 14:50 UTC (History)
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Description artisan 2010-01-19 01:15:24 UTC 
I couldn't install Netbeans on drive D: UNLESS there's enough disk space on drive C: :-)

It's only *after* selecting the products that the installer gives the opportunity to change drives. Alas, the next button to the destination path dialog is disabled as long as there's not enough disk space on C:. 

It's probably better to check for free disk space in the path dialog instead of the product dialog. Or even better : inverse the dialogs; first ask for the destination paths -> Next -> select the products to install.
Comment 1 dlipin 2010-01-20 14:50:58 UTC 
Well... in fact, we need some free space in %USERPROFILE%/.nbi directory to store information about installation that should be used during uninstallation. Even though you install IDE on other disk... 

You can override that .nbi directory location by passing --userdir <path-to-dot-nbi-dir> arguments, e.g.
netbeans-6.8-ml-windows.exe --userdir D:\InstallerData

Please be careful and not delete those directory. Otherwise it would not be possible to uninstall NetBeans. You should make the cleanup manually in this case.
See also: Issue 136013 and Issue 168443.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 136013 ***