More FC3 install problems 'Assertion (heads >0)' Workaround

[Rick Stevens]

Graeme Nichols wrote:
>> Yup.  Sorry about that.  I'm glad to hear you got it sorted out.  I
>> hadn't heard about the problems with parted.  Sounds like it gets
>> confused by head counts >15.  Ick!
>>
>>> I'm working on trying to move from StarOffice 5.2 to OOo-1.1.2 
>>> (StarOffice 5.2 will not run with the 2.6.9 kernel) by converting all 
>>> my templates and document files but the document conversion does not 
>>> work, 'missing file' is the error it throws up. I 'think' the problem 
>>> is old 1.1.1 stuff left on the HD. As soon as I get a chance I'll rpm 
>>> -e openoffice* and do an rpm -Uvh openoffice* so all the old stuff 
>>> will, hopefully, be erased.
>>
>>
>>
>> That's a possibility.  To be honest, I haven't tried conversion of my
>> old StarOffice stuff.
> 
> 
> Thanks to rpm -q --filesbypkg openoffice.org I managed to locate the 
> 'setup' file I am instructed to run when I try and convert my files and 
> templates but running it doesn't fix anything so I converted all my 
> StarOffice 5.2 files and templates on my Windows install of OO and 
> copied them all across to the appropriate directories on FC2. Worked 
> fine. The question, I guess, is why has FC3 (and FC2 by the way) been 
> supplied with a broken OO? I fired up my Lindows CD and my Knoppix CD 
> and both the OO versions on them, 1.0 and 1.1 respectively, have the 
> document conversion working as expected. Ahhh.. the idiosyncrasies of 
> RedHat ...

Can't speak to that.  I've just imported the stuff when needed, I've not
done a blanket conversion.

>> At the office, I have three machines.  The main machine is "prophead",
>> which is quite old (believe it or not a P-III/866 with 512MB) and still
>> runs FC1.  I have requested a new machine, but haven't pushed the issue
>> so far, but I'm getting to the point that I really need a better machine
>> (I develop a LOT of software and it takes forever to compile stuff).
>>
>> Most of my docs are on prophead with OpenOffice 1.1.0.  It reads the
>> stuff I had from StarOffice without too many issues.  When it gets
>> replaced and sent to FC3 with OO 1.1.3, I may have problems.  I'll worry
>> about that later.
> 
> 
> My FC3 only has OO 1.1.2

Yum will fix that.  :-)
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