Re: staroffice cdrom

[Martin Brown <mjbjr beaudesign com>]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Patrick O Neil wrote:

> I've noticed something about trying to install staroffice 5.1 
> from the cdrom on RedHat 6.0/6.1...you can't.  I have a Sun
> CDROM with staroffice 5.1 on it.  If I am running Mandrake 6.5
> or 7.0, all I need to do is mount the cdrom, enter the linux
> subdirectory and run setup /net as superuser and viola, install
> starts up just fine.  If I do the same thing in RH, it wont 
> let me.  I get a message (can't recall what it is...sorry)
> basically telling me no can do.  I have to copy the contents
> of the linux office51 directory onto my local harddrive and
> run setup from there.  

Worked fine for me as 'root' with the '/net' option.


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