Re: [expert] troubles with star office

2000-06-24 Thread LinuxGeek
try running it from your hd James Sparenberg wrote: > > All, > I've got a box with Mandrake 7.1 that I'm trying to install Star Office > on. But I've run into the following problem. It seems that whenever I > type the ./setup command after going into the directory on the cdrom it > k

Re: [expert] troubles with star office

2000-06-23 Thread Joerg Mertin
On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 02:55:21PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: > All, > I've got a box with Mandrake 7.1 that I'm trying to install Star Office > on. But I've run into the following problem. It seems that whenever I > type the ./setup command after going into the directory on the cdrom

Re: [expert] troubles with star office

2000-06-23 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jamesthat exact same thing happened to me back before Star was owned by Sun, version 5.0, I believe. Anyway, what I did to circumvent the problem was to copy the installation directory and its entire contents to my hard drive. When I ran ./setup from my own hard drive I no longer got the err

Re: [expert] troubles with star office

2000-06-23 Thread Warren Doney
I got it off a magazine coverdisk - untarred it to /home/mine/so (can be deleted after) & ran setup from there. There's bound to be a better way - but it worked HTH -WBD - Original Message - From: "James Sparenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 23,

Re: [expert] troubles with star office

2000-06-23 Thread Christopher Quale
I seem to remember having the same problem w/ the CD I got from Comdex. The way I got around it was to copy the contents of the CD to harddisk and then chmod 755 the setup program. I couldn't figure out why I couldn't run it directly from the CD either. Chris James Sparenberg wrote: > > All,

RE: [expert] troubles with star office

2000-06-23 Thread McDonald, John GSM1 (SIMASD)
You need to cp the StarOffice file to a local directory i.e. /opt or /home/username Mac -Original Message- From: James Sparenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 10:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] troubles with star office All, I've got a box

Re: [expert] troubles with star office

2000-06-23 Thread Piero
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote: > > > I haven't gotten a copy of this letter in about an hour so I am resending I > apologize if you are receiving this twice. Sometimes it takes days... Sorry that I'm not able to help you with your problem; just don't get worried about the list. Sooner or la

Re: [expert] troubles with star office

2000-06-23 Thread Sevatio Octavio
It sounds like setup is trying to write back to the CD. Move all the StarOffice files to the hard drive. Are you doing a net install or a single user install? Seve -Original Message- From: James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, Jun