rec.autos.simulators

Has anyone had problems installing Nascar 2 on system with FAT 32.  I
have tried to install on my new computer and have gotten a out of disk
space error.   I have 3.2 gig of free space........Any advise is
appreciated....     Thanks

OEM B will give you a problem is you try to run NASCAR 2 and have a comm port
active.  If a port is active, i.e. online racing, your joystick port will quit
wrking within NASCAR 2.  It's a known bug.

--- Frank ---

Here's what I get after a full NASCAR 2 install, not including TEN.

Total files listed:
       499 file(s)     98,596,545 bytes

--- Frank ---

Couple of solutions, just chew up disk space with some bogus file
until you have less than 2.1 GB, then install, and then delete the
bogus file. Install to another disk, and xcopy everything over. xcopy
everything from the CD to the disk, or partition the disk into
multiple partitions, each one smaller than 2.1 GB...

---Jim Sokoloff, Papyrus

FAT32 supports single partitions of up to 2 terabytes, but more
conveniently you can have a partition of up to 8GB while still only
using 4kb clusters.  Going from 32kb to 4kb clusters can free up about
20% of your previously wasted diskspace.

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Dave Sparks
IWCCCARS Project: http://www.theuspits.com/iwcccars
Late Night League: http://www.sequoia-dev.com/Hawaii/latenite.html
Hawaii Handle: davids

--- Frank ---

Have FAT32 on my system and have NO problems at all with any of the
existing software that I ran on FAT16 on the same system.  I gained 125 meg
on my 1.6 gig drive with the same amount of programs installed.

Nascar Sim Shop http://user.mc.net/~n9ldx

Charlie Heath
Papyrus

Right, that's because you never had a program check to see how much
free space there was and get back an answer greater than 2.1GB (which
if you represent that in an int32, becomes a negative number and the
program thinks there isn't any space left...)

This particular mis-feature only arises when a partition has more than
2.1GB of free space on it...

---Jim Sokoloff

On Wed, 26 Mar 1997 02:27:17 +0000, Patrick Wooley

To non-programmers, this probably sounds like the most sh*%-off stupid
thing you've ever heard, but that's the problem. The "solution" is to
temporarily get the free space under 2.1GB (by chewing up disk space
with bogus file(s)), installing, and then deleting the bogus file(s).
(And, in defense of every programmer who has this bug in their code,
in the pre-FAT-32 days, this was completely SAFE, since you'd never
get an answer back that was too large...)

---Jim Sokoloff

Yes, but you don't have a partition that's larger than 2GB. That's where
the problems come in.

Dave Sparks
IWCCCARS Project: http://www.theuspits.com/iwcccars
Late Night League: http://www.sequoia-dev.com/Hawaii/latenite.html
Hawaii Handle: davids