Quartus II 10.0 Disk space error

[Altera_Forum]

Hi! 

 When i tried to install Quartus II 10.0 Web Edition (and ModelSim altera edition) on Windows Vista Home Premium os, on the destination select tab in the altera installer first appear 81GB as the available space, but if i go to the components select tab it drops down to 1GB (when i change the directory no matter how many free space i have, it drops down to 0GB :( )  I had the same issu if i download the QII 10.0 individualy or just the altera installer, and the same in an other PC with Win7 os. I ran the installer in root mode, so i have no idea what is the problem :(

[Altera_Forum]

can you file an SR on the issue?

[Altera_Forum]

I made some screenshoots but i can't do links or images, i haven't got enough posts :S

[Altera_Forum]

I've got the same results on a 3th pc with windows xp :O  

I've selected drive 'D:' with 320GB free space and the installer saw 0GB on it, truly no idea what is the problem :(

[Altera_Forum]

i tried the installer on a WinXP and Win7 machine and i saw accurate space estimates (not 0GB) on the Select components page. i think you will need to contact Altera in a service request

[Altera_Forum]

i didn't see your issue on the Quartus II 10.0 installation FAQ: 

 http://www.altera.com/download/10.0/dnl-v10-download-installation-faq.html

[Altera_Forum]

Thanks for your help, i will make a service request.

[Altera_Forum]

I ran into this problem before, but it got fixed after i changed my language setting to english.

[Altera_Forum]

Yes, the problem is solved :D But not enough to change the language format and the language of the kezboard i hav to download the full english language pack for windows. 

But now it is working, and i am very happy, thank you guys for the answers, have a nice day :))))

[Altera_Forum]

glad to hear that

[Altera_Forum]

nice suggestion libos. do you know if this is anywhere in Altera's documentation?

[Altera_Forum]

nope. just trial and error.

[Altera_Forum]

It is not necessary to change all language and locale settings, only to ensure that decimal point symbol is set to '.' and the thousand separation symbol is set to ',' so the installation software is able to read correctly the available disk size. I've just tested it on Windows 7 64-bit, spanish language.

[Altera_Forum]

hi ea1crb, may i know what kind of setting of those decimal point and separation symbol that breaks the hdd size indicator? i am interested to get the setting that can show the 0GB.

[Altera_Forum]

Hi, I was not obtaining a 0Gb available disk space, but rather a 1Mb available disk space. My locale setting for printing numbers was '.' as decimal point and ' ' (blank space) as thousands separator. Probably the routine that finds free space in the installation program is retrieving the free disk space info as a text string, and not able to convert it correctly if it is not in the 999,999,999.99 format.

[Altera_Forum]

hah, that's interesting

[Altera_Forum]

I just notice Altera released a new version of their Windows installers. I have created a new thread for this. 

 altera installer v10.0 rev2 released (http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24762)