Re: Q: star office download woe - lesson to be learned

["Andrew Smith" <rhml k1k2 com>]

> Hi all,
> 
> I struggled for whole day yesterday in installing the
> star office
> on my redhat PC. It was the downloads. I am not sure
> if it is my network or sun's server.  I got a install
> CD from a friennd and things installed and started
> working in minutes.
> J

Well,
I guess you were unlucky.
I downloaded the whole 5.2 Linux bin in one piece (took 1hr40min)
the day before yesterday and it ran first time no problems

Just curious, was the problem that it wouldn't run or did it
say there was something wrong and abort?

I would expect Sun to have some checksums etc in the install
script and to report what was wrong so you could just download
what you need to fix corrupt file - but by the sounds of what
you say this isn't the case. Pity!

-Cheers
-Andrew
--
MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding!