don't run /opt/Office51/install-kde as it mucks about with the hard drive
too much fo my liking
instead
/opt/Office51/kde/softlinks/setup
is far nicer.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 06 April 2000 13:58
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Boot Manager
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> In rpmdrake select Configuration, Add location of packages
> CDROM (suggested
> name is extra). It will look on the CD with the StarOffice
> rpm (you did
> put it in the drive didn't you?) and adds it to the list of
> installable
> packages. You can find it in (I seem to remember)
> Applications/Publishing/Word Processor. Select the StarOffice rpm and
> press install. When this is done, go to
> /opt/Office51/install-kde and run
> this. Voila! (I had to do it several times, eventually
> creating a bigger
> EXT2-formatted partition as it kept telling me there wasn't
> enough room.
> Never did find out how to analyse the space...... DU seems to tell you
> what's using it, but not how much is free.........
>
>
> Regards
> Martin Sydenham
>
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Hi.
> Help. I have just installed Linux mandrake 7.0 Can someone
> tell me how
> the
> hell you install any software. ie Star office 5.1 PLEASE
>
> Thanks Adrian.
>
> Mark Ward wrote:
>
> > I'm attempting to install Mandrake Linux 7.02 and want to
> run it through
> > BootMagic 1.0 that came with PartitionMagic 4.0
> >
> > My setup is as follows:
> >
> > I have two physical hard drives in my computer. The first
> drive has two
> > primary partitions and one extended partition divided into 5 logical
> > partitions. The first partition contains Windows 98 Second
> Edition, the
> > second partition contains Windows 2000. The second drive
> has one primary
> > partition and one extended partition divided into one
> logical partition.
> On
> > the second drive I have installed Linux to the primary
> partition which I
> > believe is listed as hdb1.
> >
> > When I installed Linux I installed the bootmanager and
> pointed it to the
> > partition hdb1. Read it in here somewhere that this was the
> thing to do.
> .
> > Now when I boot to Linux using BootMagic the screen
> flickers madly and
> the
> > printer prints out the screen contents much like someone is
> sitting there
> > pressing [Print Screen].
> >
> > I can boot Linux using the floppy disk I created and it
> works great.
> What
> > I'd like to be able to do is boot into Linux using
> BootMagic. Can someone
> > detail the steps involved from the beginning to achieve this.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > If I throw a cat out the car window is that considered to be Kitty
> Litter?
>
>
>
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