wine users - Mar 2007 - Are there any workarounds for the low disk space while installing error?

Whenever I install something that requires a minimum disk space, it
brings up an error saying

Your c: drive has [blank] MB left, you need to free up space


or something to the like. I've searched around, and I've seen no
straight answers. Is there a workaround for this, or is installing
windows programs with minimum disk space requirements off limits?

frylock12@gmail.com wrote:
> Whenever I install something that requires a minimum disk space, it
> brings up an error saying
> 
> Your c: drive has [blank] MB left, you need to free up space
> 
> 
> or something to the like. I've searched around, and I've seen no
> straight answers. Is there a workaround for this, or is installing
> windows programs with minimum disk space requirements off limits?
If you run the program from console, do you get any errors/warnings/etc. 
printed out? Something about stubs for example? And what program are you 
talking about and can one download it (legally) from somewhere?

frylock12@gmail.com wrote:
> Whenever I install something that requires a minimum disk space, it
> brings up an error saying
> 
> Your c: drive has [blank] MB left, you need to free up space
Usually, this works. However, a combination of old programs and great
amounts of free space can result in integer overflows. In this case, a
workaround is to create a small loopback filesystem for the
installation. You can even mount it under ~/.wine/drive_c/...

Daniel
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When you post:
Which wine version? Self compiled or prepackaged?

On Mar 1, 1:32 pm, fryloc...@gmail.com wrote:
> Whenever I install something that requires a minimum disk space, it
> brings up an error saying
>
> Your c: drive has [blank] MB left, you need to free up space
>
> or something to the like. I've searched around, and I've seen no
> straight answers. Is there a workaround for this, or is installing
> windows programs with minimum disk space requirements off limits?
Which applications, exactly, and which version of Wine?

I fixed a bug in Wine last year that caused exactly this symptom
for old win16 applications like Lotus 1 2 3 R5.
- Dan