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First post, by vek01

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I am trying to install Wing Commander Privateer with the cdrom, in the install window it says that I -1 disk space, so a window tells insuffiecent disk space to install privateer cd. Please try to free some disk space and try again. I am using dosbox .70 and I did not see anything about freeing disk space in your readme.

Reply 1 of 2, by red_avatar

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Dosbox uses an "emulated" hard drive so even if you mount a drive with 100Gb free, Dosbox will show a different amount. There's a parameter you can enter in your Dosbox shortcut (if you don't have one, make one) where you can manually alter the free space Dosbox will show. I think it's -freesize or so, check the readme.

But this error is not caused by a lack of free space. It's caused by too much free space - some games can't handle large amounts of free space and will instead end up with a negative number, hence thinking your hard drive is full. If you lower the amount of free space (just mess around a bit), it should work.

Reply 2 of 2, by vek01

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Thanks, I got it to work by making a file copy of the game and put in the folder and made a path, then mounted my cdrom and it installed.