Force Office Installer to Ignore Disk Space?

[bryanpi]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

I'm trying to install Office 2008 and it's incorrectly checking free disk space, thus preventing an install.

Specifically, I have a separate partition mounted on /Applications with 1.7 GB space available, more than enough for 2008 to install.

However, my / partition only has 250 MB free, which is all that the installer detects, and thus falsely reports that there's not enough free space available.

Is there any way to convince the installer that there is actually enough space?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Diane Ross]

I'm trying to install Office 2008 and it's incorrectly checking free disk
space, thus preventing an install.

Specifically, I have a separate partition mounted on /Applications with 1.7 GB
space available, more than enough for 2008 to install.

However, my / partition only has 250 MB free, which is all that the installer
detects, and thus falsely reports that there's not enough free space
available.

Is there any way to convince the installer that there is actually enough
space?

Install on the boot drive. Then you can move it, but be aware the new
installer does not support updating an application in a location other than
a bootable partition. (This is a Apple installer function.)

 

[bryanpi]

The problem is that the boot drive only has 250 MB space. And I've used many Apple Installer-based installations that give me the option to put the program elsewhere, so I'm a little hesitant to believe that.

* sigh* Guess I get to uninstall XCode, install Office, re-install XCode, and give a self-satisfying "ha! I told you there was enough disk space!"

 

[Bob Greenblatt]

The problem is that the boot drive only has 250 MB space. And I've used many
Apple Installer-based installations that give me the option to put the program
elsewhere, so I'm a little hesitant to believe that.

* sigh* Guess I get to uninstall XCode, install Office, re-install XCode, and
give a self-satisfying "ha! I told you there was enough disk space!"

While that may work, you have precious little space remaining on your boot
drive, the location where the OS stores the virtual memory. This undoubtedly
will give you a large hit on performance. You should never let your boot
drive go below 20% of its original capacity.