This post pertains to attempts to install the Oculus software (which is required for development with the Rift) that fail because there's not enough disk space when there in fact is. A little research reveals that this has been a problem since the DK1 and has to do with dynamic disks and the way Oculus installer attempts to ensure that the drive is fast enough.
https://forums.oculusvr.com/community/discussion/34739/oculussetup-exe-says-not-enough-space-when-space-exists/p1
I hesitated to post this on Stack Overflow, however, I encounter this error when trying to setup a Dev machine for VR development with Oculus, and the solution is sufficiently obscure and not available in a single location yet, and I felt overall it makes sense for it to be here.
You can try going the route of creating a VHD on your dynamic disk, however, for me, even after doing that, the Oculus installer wasn't able to recognize a drive to install on.
I was in a position to reinstall Windows 10. So, with a USB made with the latest Windows 10 installer, my drives were identified as dynamic and GPT and while I could reformat them I couldn't delete them or otherwise change them from dynamic using the GUI.
What worked for me was to go to the command prompt during Windows 10 installation (Shift-F10) and use "diskpart" command line utility to select the appropriate disk and clean it. Like so:
>> diskpart
>> select disk <disk#>
>> clean
>> exit
Then I was able to really format the drive through the Windows 10 installation GUI and proceed as usual with the installation of Windows 10 and then Oculus.
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As part of a troubleshooting script, I want to install a problematic device from powershell, but can't find any way to do that
Our environment blocks TB3 devices (PCI-PCI bridge in DM), and every time an OS build upgrade is happening, the devices needs to be installed again.
The restriction comes from hklm:SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DeviceInstall\Restrictions
I created some script that removes the restriction, and another that re-enables it afterwards, but the actual part that installs the missing driver from MS, that I can't do.
I had a practical question for my own work at home. I want to use quad monitor for my coding and other work. I can do this with my macbook pro attached to external triple monitor. But it is not practical because of all the cable management and Macbook Pro is barely keeping up with the performance running it. So what I wanted to do was having my PC run triple monitor and my Macbook as forth screen. Code on my pc and share/update the files in the htdocs directory on my OS X. Like how FTP works.
I found this link: http://www.itworld.com/article/2844141/how-to-share-mac-os-x-yosemite-files-with-windows-10.html
But I'm not sure if I will face sudden obstacles in doing this with my htdocs directory or other directories where my work is stored and updated from time to time.(example:Symfony projects)
I hope I mentioned everything. Thanks in advance!
Well, you can use one of the free cloud based, file-sharig service, like Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive or Dropbox.
But files will not be updated immediately, you need to wait few seconds (in the best case scenario). So it might get frustrating quickly.
Also, from my experience, OneDrive on Mac is not the best choice when it comes to a Symfony project - it stops working after a while, probably because a lot of cache files, so I need to restart it and it's not usable at all.
Another solution might be using a version control system (f.e. Git) - but you would be able to see the code changes only after a commit and push (and do it manually, of course).
So I was one of the unlucky who didn't get the reservation on my PC despite meeting all the requriments.
Now I would like to update to win 10 using the MediaCreationTool by Microsoft.
My concert tho is, would updating the system this way be the same as with the reservation?
Meaning will I get to keep my files, and have the option to go back within 30 days?
I'm running win7 Home Premium x64 SP1
Will be glad for any answer
I've done it and I kept all my files and apps.
I also have Windows Rollback (The option to go back that u mentioned)
I was running win8.1 x64
The best option for me. Open the computer, remove the system Hard drive, and get an empty one installed in the PC or laptop, and then install the new Op System you want to try, do the drivers, updates, put some of your software, and test it for a while. If you don't like it, just change the H Disk for the old one.
I am trying to build and deploy a gaia build from git repo in Windows. I am trying to deploy it in অ Flame.
I am trying to do it in a windows 7 with cygwin installed. After installing everything this is the error I am getting
This works just fine in a Linux machine, but I need to do this in Windows since right now I have access to it only.
Any pointers to what I am doing wrong here?
I'm afraid it's not going to work without significant effort for several reasons. Much better to use a VM with Linux on as even if it did work it will be really slow. Windows is slow at handling lots of file access and Cygwin slows it down even more.
For example in making a simple change to config.sh (full stack build) so it works on Cygwin I found it took hours to run (on a decent PC). And then I had a couple of corrupt git repos I had to hand fix.
I also looked at getting gaia's make to work, but stopped after the problem just got bigger.
Here's what I found for future reference
The build is not really portable, it expects a linux like environment
While cygwin gives good linux emulation most of the tools run are win32 native and handling path conversion for them requires not trivial changes due to assumptions. For example you can switch to the Win32 XPCshell and hack the command line paths to use cygpath, but environment variable are an extra source of dependency in the JS scripts and are all unix paths. ( I did manage this part).
these path and environment dependencies get magnified with the C build chain and other tools.
You need to change the mount to use noacl or else cygwin attaches ACLs to simulate file properties, thus breaking things. It's might even be a little faster without ACLS
I also tried MinGW which provides native versions without the emulation so should be faster. However it falls short of the requirements and its automatic path conversion heuristics get in the way.
you need to turn of any antivirus prog as they slow it down. in fact the very first time I used the old FIrefox WIndows build it would crash after a long time. Turned out to be a mem leak in the AV :(
So all-in-all it's too much hassle in terms of dev time to convert and probably maintain. A true Windows build would be better but then it's so easy these days to run a VM. You can even share directories between the guest and host so could flash from Windows.
I also tried with cygwin, but was unable to build the gaia source code on windows.
It's not straightforward to build the gaia source code on windows. Please follow these steps:-
Download Mozilla Build from MozillaBuild - Mozilla Wiki and install the tools in c:/mozilla-build (preferred). It includes everything (make, wget, python etc) you need to build gaia source code.
Run start-shell.bat. If build process failed with this batch file then run start-shell-msvc2013.bat if you have Visual Studio 2013 or start-shell-msvc2015.bat if you have Visual Studio 2015. (You need Visual Studio for the second step).
Browse to the gaia source code directory using the command cd Mozilla/gaia.
Run DEVICE_DEBUG=1 make command. Don't run DEVICE=1 make or make command (because you won't be able to debug the apps, I was able to connect to the Firefox OS 2.2 but was not able to debug the apps when I ran these commands).
If you are running this command for the first time, it will download the b2g_sdk otherwise it will create a folder profile with your custom profile.
Open the WEBIDE using Firefox (Nightly preferred) and point to the profile folder you just created.
Links for your reference:-
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/Developing_Gaia
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Developing_Gaia/Different_ways_to_run_Gaia
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/WebIDE/Troubleshooting
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Developing_Gaia/Making_Gaia_code_changes
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Windows_Prerequisites
I'm running an Windows 7 Home Basic in a Megaware machine with 8GB RAM, intel Core i5 2.9 GHz (x64), 1 TB of Hard Disk.
The problem is: since today, when i tried to update a project from an SVN repository at google code with TortoiseSVN 1.7.1 (for 64-bit systems) at the same time i opened the Eclipse (Indigo for Java EE), the windows just stops working. No error messages, i just can't do nothing. I can still move my mouse, but all the functions of the windows simply do not respond (i tried ctrl+alt+del , alt+f4, win, win+e, win+r...). I'm acessing via safe mode (with network).
I tried also to uninstall the Tortoise (had to find out how to turn on the MSIServer on), but even after uninstalling it, the problem continues. Can the Tortoise have damaged one of my system's file? Reinstall the windows is my last option, btw.
It might have, but I doubt it. It could also be something else that's been installed since then. Instead of reinstalling windows, go into your Start Menu, and select "System Restore". If you have a restore point defined from before you started experiencing problems, that could be a good way to get back to what you had without a full reinstall.