Re: [users] Open Office on a system containing 2 operating systems

2007-10-07 Thread James Knott
dougM wrote: John Meyer wrote: James Knott wrote: I don't know how to do that, James. Can you refer me to some instructions? Thanks. -- Doug M. In other words, what I think he is saying is just use the Windows partition to save your documents and skip the flash

Re: [users] Open Office on a system containing 2 operating systems

2007-10-07 Thread Dan Lewis
On Sunday October 7 2007 08:02 am, James Knott wrote: dougM wrote: John Meyer wrote: James Knott wrote: I don't know how to do that, James. Can you refer me to some instructions? Thanks. -- Doug M. In other words, what I think he is saying is just use the Windows partition to

Re: [users] Open Office on a system containing 2 operating systems

2007-10-07 Thread Diabolic Preacher
On 07/10/2007, John Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... In other words, what I think he is saying is just use the Windows partition to save your documents and skip the flash drive. That will work if the XP partition is formatted as FAT32. If it's NTFS, on the other hand, the support is still

Re: [users] Open Office on a system containing 2 operating systems

2007-10-07 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 23:46:55 -0400 dougM wrote: John Meyer wrote: Google fdisk. The linux version is more advanced, but either one can create the partitions you need. K. Thank you. GNU Parted is a more recent linux partition-editor than fdisk. It also comes in a GUI version for

[users] Open Office on a system containing 2 operating systems

2007-10-06 Thread Bob Macpherson
Folks, Does anyone know of any problems installing Open Office on a machine with 2 operating systems. That is, installing Open Office on each of the operating systems? Bob

Re: [users] Open Office on a system containing 2 operating systems

2007-10-06 Thread Adrian Try
Hi Bob Does anyone know of any problems installing Open Office on a machine with 2 operating systems. That is, installing Open Office on each of the operating systems? You shouldn't have a problem. I run OpenOffice.org on three operating systems on my computer. Are you just checking,

RE: [users] Open Office on a system containing 2 operating systems

2007-10-06 Thread Bob Macpherson
: [users] Open Office on a system containing 2 operating systems Hi Bob Does anyone know of any problems installing Open Office on a machine with 2 operating systems. That is, installing Open Office on each of the operating systems? You shouldn't have a problem. I run OpenOffice.org

Re: [users] Open Office on a system containing 2 operating systems

2007-10-06 Thread James Knott
Bob Macpherson wrote: Folks, Does anyone know of any problems installing Open Office on a machine with 2 operating systems. That is, installing Open Office on each of the operating systems? I have Linux and XP on my notebook computer, with OpenOffice on both. I moved My Documents

Re: [users] Open Office on a system containing 2 operating systems

2007-10-06 Thread dougM
I have a dual-boot system too, Linux and XP, with OpenOffice installed in each. What I do is transfer files to a USB flash drive -- you can get those for very little on eBay. Then each OS can read it, treating the flash drive as an external drive, and you can drag and drop a document

Re: [users] Open Office on a system containing 2 operating systems

2007-10-06 Thread Scott Castaline
dougM wrote: I have a dual-boot system too, Linux and XP, with OpenOffice installed in each. What I do is transfer files to a USB flash drive -- you can get those for very little on eBay. Then each OS can read it, treating the flash drive as an external drive, and you can drag and drop a

Re: [users] Open Office on a system containing 2 operating systems

2007-10-06 Thread James Knott
dougM wrote: I have a dual-boot system too, Linux and XP, with OpenOffice installed in each. What I do is transfer files to a USB flash drive -- you can get those for very little on eBay. Then each OS can read it, treating the flash drive as an external drive, and you can drag and drop a

Re: [users] Open Office on a system containing 2 operating systems

2007-10-06 Thread dougM
James Knott wrote: dougM wrote: I have a dual-boot system too, Linux and XP, with OpenOffice installed in each. What I do is transfer files to a USB flash drive -- you can get those for very little on eBay. Then each OS can read it, treating the flash drive as an external drive, and you

Re: [users] Open Office on a system containing 2 operating systems

2007-10-06 Thread James Knott
dougM wrote: James Knott wrote: dougM wrote: I have a dual-boot system too, Linux and XP, with OpenOffice installed in each. What I do is transfer files to a USB flash drive -- you can get those for very little on eBay. Then each OS can read it, treating the flash drive as an external

Re: [users] Open Office on a system containing 2 operating systems

2007-10-06 Thread John Meyer
dougM wrote: James Knott wrote: dougM wrote: I have a dual-boot system too, Linux and XP, with OpenOffice installed in each. What I do is transfer files to a USB flash drive -- you can get those for very little on eBay. Then each OS can read it, treating the flash drive as an

Re: [users] Open Office on a system containing 2 operating systems

2007-10-06 Thread James Knott
John Meyer wrote: dougM wrote: James Knott wrote: dougM wrote: I have a dual-boot system too, Linux and XP, with OpenOffice installed in each. What I do is transfer files to a USB flash drive -- you can get those for very little on eBay. Then each OS can read it,

Re: [users] Open Office on a system containing 2 operating systems

2007-10-06 Thread John Meyer
James Knott wrote: John Meyer wrote: dougM wrote: James Knott wrote: dougM wrote: I have a dual-boot system too, Linux and XP, with OpenOffice installed in each. What I do is transfer files to a USB flash drive -- you can get those for very little on eBay. Then each

Re: [users] Open Office on a system containing 2 operating systems

2007-10-06 Thread Jim Hartley
My system (an E-machine Office Depot rebate special) came with the NTFS Windoze partition using most of the 160GB drive, but there was also a 6GB FAT32 partition, some sort of recovery boondoggle, and only half full so there's 3GB of space accessible to both systems. I used a version of

Re: [users] Open Office on a system containing 2 operating systems

2007-10-06 Thread dougM
John Meyer wrote: James Knott wrote: I don't know how to do that, James. Can you refer me to some instructions? Thanks. -- Doug M. In other words, what I think he is saying is just use the Windows partition to save your documents and skip the flash drive. That will

Re: [users] Open Office on a system containing 2 operating systems

2007-10-06 Thread dougM
John Meyer wrote: Google fdisk. The linux version is more advanced, but either one can create the partitions you need. K. Thank you. -- Doug M. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: