.Net deployment project setup.exe fails on large drives

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Create a setup.exe deployment package and try to execute it on a server with
2TB of disk space. The installer will report that the drive is negative in
size, and will therefore refuse to install.

My client (who is trying to install the .NET webservices and ASP.NET apps I
created for them) with the nifty new large disk partion is not the
happiest...

When will this likely be fixed?

-afh3
 
Hi,

Thanks for posting.

This is the first time that I meet the situation with installation on 2 TB
drive. I will do some further research and get back to you later.

Have a nice day!

Regards,

Felix Wang
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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Hi,

The bug has been fixed in Windows Installer 2.0 on Winodws 2003, as well as
the upcoming Winodws Installer 3.0 release.

Currently we have no workaround on this issue.

I hope the information is useful to you.

Regards,

Felix Wang
Microsoft Online Partner Support
Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
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Felix,

Thank you for responding.

All I could find on the MSI 3.0 release date on the Microsoft web site was
basically "real soon now".

Of course, this means that I have to tell the client they need to wait for
software that has no set release date.

So, in the meantime, with "no workaround on this issue", my client has
thousands of dollars worth of software that they cannot install using the
delployment packages created by VS.NET 2003.

How would you feel in their place?

-afh3
 
Hello,

I feel sorry. Is it possible if the client tries to install the product on
a smaller drive?

Regards,

Felix Wang
Microsoft Online Partner Support
Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
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Felix,

Unfortunately, like most changes made to computer hardware, not absolutely
every contingency was tested.

A test image of the original (smaller) disk -- containing all of the ASP.NET
code -- ran with no problems in the large partition, so no thought was given
to whether or not the actual setup.exe files would work to get the files
re-installed once the new system was up and running on the 2TB disk. We
thought the issues would all be associated with the operation of the new
drive arrays, and the configuration of the existing code base. Once it was
proven that the code worked on the arrays, they were installed on the web
server with no recourse to go back to smaller partitions now that it's
actually installed.

I can configure their IIS, create the virtual directories, and XCopy the
code to the large disk to get them operational, but they aren't terribly
happy about spending more of my time (and money) to do what a simple
double-click on the setup.exe files used to do for them. Understandably
so...

Can you give me (and therefore them) any hints as to when we might see MSI
3.0? Seems like it's been in beta for quite a while...

-afh3
 
Hi,

I can only say that Windows Installer 3.0 is expected to release in the
second quarter of 2004.

Regards,

Felix Wang
Microsoft Online Partner Support
Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no rights.
 
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