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03 November 2005

Canasta--Please! Aaagh! I want to play online canasta with a friend, but I need Java and my system keeps telling me I don't have enough disc space to run Java... but I DO, I DO have enough disc space! How do I download Java (on XP Home) or find a free canasta site on the Web that doesn't need Java? Thanks!

post by: shane at: 23:10 | 5 comments

yahoo has canasta i think (but it may be java too)

posted by amberglow 04 November | 00:16

so you have 125 MB or more of free space on your C:\ drive? and did you, uhhhh, try rebooting and stuff?

posted by Wedge 04 November | 00:17

"whoops there goes another XP box!"

posted by quonsar 04 November | 01:20

I saw the below info here.

Installer says you don't have enough disk space, even though you have more than 4GB free space available

This problem can occur if the free space on your disk is in the narrow range [4GB, 4GB + required space -1]. To workaround this problem, create a temporary file (or files) that take up enough disk space to make the free space less than 4GB, then proceed with the installation. After the installation is completed, you may delete the temporary file(s).

A similar problem may occur with larger amounts of free disk space. See bug report 4406594.

Another workaround for these types of problems is the use WinZip to extract the contents of the j2sdk-1_3_1_-windows-i586.exe file, and then run the setup.exe executable from the directory that is created by the extraction.

These types of problems should not exist with releases with version number 1.3.1_03 or later.

Maybe someone else who knows more than I do can say whether this might make any sense for your problem.

posted by taz 04 November | 03:55

Thanks folks! I'm sure you all know how it is when you, um... just have to play canasta.

posted by shane 04 November | 08:18

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