Win Installer does not handle out of disk space well

Today we ran into a problem with the installer of Java Web Start under
Windows. Unfortunately this happened in a demo at the customer site where
we wanted to demonstrate how easy it is to install and use Java Web
Start. When the machine is running low on disc space the installer does
not generate an error message. It simply does not install the JRE 1.3
completely. In one case we had the VM installed but non of the class
libraries and in another case it wouldn't install JRE 1.3 at all. It took
us a while to figure out what was going on and the demo was busted.

N/A

We should check the disk space but this might not happen for 1.0.1

-  xxxxx@xxxxx   2001-02-23

Will be addressed by moving to IS 7 in Mantis.

  xxxxx@xxxxx   2002-07-23

Yep, this hit us too.  It seems that under Windoze if the 
user's C drive has less than around 25M free, the JRE 
installer fails & leaves things in an unstable state.  
Granted, the user is probably in trouble anyway with < 25M 
free, but Web Start & JRE installers should handle lack of 
resources more gracefully.

A related bummer is that there is a parameter in the Plug-
in/JRE's CAB installer INI file that would appear to handle 
this:

MinDiskSpace=NNNNN

but it doesn't seem to have any effect.