On 2010-06-13 5:19 PM, David B Teague wrote: > On 6/13/2010 2:33 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> A half *hour*??? Just to *install* it??? >> >> On your system, the install should take considerably less than 5 >> minutes... >> >> Are you installing it over an internet connection? That's the only >> way I can see for it to take that long.
> The tone of your remark is harsher than you perhaps meant it to be. ?? I may not be the most sensitive person in the world, but there was not *one* *thing* about my response that even *resembles* harsh. Methinks you need to grow a pair (yes, *that* was meant to be just a little bit 'harsh')... > I do not understand what you mean "installing over an internet > connection." Everyone who does not use a CD to install OO.o must install > from the web. One downloads the executable installer from the OOo web > site then runs the executable installer. Depending on the web browser and how it is configured, you can get a dialog after clicking on a file to download that gives you the ability to *open* a file 'over the internet'. Doing this for an executable 'installer' would cause the installer to actually *execute* over the internet... > Running the installation program itself takes more than 8 minutes here, > but there are other things to do besides just run the installer. ? Running the installer on the 50+ machines here I have been maintaing for 10 years, I have *never* had an install require more than about 3 minutes, and that was on old 800Mhz celeron machines with 256MB ram... Any reasonably modern machine should install in less than 3 minutes. > Fetching installer, 5+ minutes, installation, 8+ minutes. Sorry - downloading the installer is *not* a part of the installation process. It is a *pre-requisite* to installing the program. Having the installation files is *always* a pre-requisite to installing *any* program. > I ran OO.o to check settings, "load at startup" was not checked. Not sure of the relevance... this is a configuration issue, and is *not* part of the installation routine. It could also be considered a *packaging* issue, if you are using a system that uses preconfigured installation poackages (like Redhat, SuSE, Debian, etc)... > When first started, OO.o demanded I register, No it doesn't, it politely *asks* you if you want to register. The default is set to yes, so if you just clicked Next/OK without reading the dialog, as opposed to changing the radio button to 'No, never', that is *your* fault. > and sent me to Oracle's web site, which would not accept my login > name and password I had retained from Suns' web site. After many > attempts, it told me it couldn't do this because of a "server error." > A substantial waste of time. It is possible that there are still some issues from the transition, so no need to be so condemning. > The time I quoted included download, install, and registration time. We are talking about *installation*, so it would help to not go off point and include things that are not an actual part of the installation routine. > The time to download and run the installer was about 15 minutes, and > is consistent with the time taken to install earlier versions of > OO.o. Again, downloading is separate from installing. > When you respond to questions on this mailing list, it would be well > to be more gentle. Rotflmao!!!! Sorry David, I save 'gentle' for my wife. When interacting on mail lists like these, I expect to be interacting with adults, or at least reasonably mature younger people, and I act accordingly. I suggest you do the same. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
