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Installing Navy Seals CO on a drive with few empty space

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 1:46 pm
by a13n
Hello.
My Win98 C drive has only 100MegaBytes of free space.
And another available D drive has 400MegaBytes of free space.
Quake3 is installed on C.
And Navy Seals consumes(quite a hot q3 mod) about 300MegaBytes of free space.
So I decided to put it on D.
But how can quake3 parse the pk3 on D?
Help! :icon23:

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 2:01 pm
by Foo
It cannot.

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 2:49 pm
by menkent
just move some other shit over to D to make room for it. or delete a gig of porn to free up some room. wtf.

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 3:11 pm
by a13n
Porns are stored on remote drive unless it has just been d/l'd from internet, hence no such pics on this PC to say nothing of the same drive with q3 for purities' sake.

...if only win98 can symlink.

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 3:20 pm
by Foo
You really should invest in another hard drive. They're not expensive.

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 10:50 pm
by a13n
Foo wrote:You really should invest in another hard drive. They're not expensive.
Well, striclty it is not a matter of hard drive capacity but how it was partitioned.
And buying another one or re-partitioning it do not quickly solve the problem becuase of the relationship with other partitions.

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:28 pm
by Foo
I'm sorry for talking like I know better, I don't know enough about your setup to recommend a specific method...

But if you're running multiple partitions with several OS's, then the best way to get around this problem is to buy a secondary large hard drive with a neutral file system (FAT/32). Load everything onto that and put the OS itself onto the other partitions.

That way you wont come into problems with HD space like this. Quake will run happily from a different drive to the OS.

If you need a quick solution it's this: Delete some other stuff to free up space.

That's your only quick and simple option.

Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 1:41 am
by a13n
Foo wrote:I'm sorry for talking like I know better, I don't know enough about your setup to recommend a specific method...
NP.
My 1st post lacked detail.