Dear friends:
First, my thanks to all of you who have written in with your
suggestions. Unfortunately, none has yet really figured it out.
Here is another piece of the puzzle:
I installed and USED StarOffice 51 before several times, although as a
back. At the time my default word processor was WordPerfect 8 for Linux.
Now I have decided to reverse the situation and use StarOffice as my
preferred word processor and WP as a backup.
At any rate, I do not recall having any saving or backup problems in the
past when I did use StarOffice, although I can't quite recall the
specifics. But I am pretty sure I never had a problem with saving or
backup in SO51.
There is one variable that has changed in this picture: In this last
installation of Mandrake 6.1 from my PowerPack CD, I added a separate
/home partition and installed StarOffice in /home/sher. This is where I
installed it before, too, but this time /home is a separate partition,
while before it was part of the single / partition that Linux was
installed into. In other words, I used to have / (hda1), a swap
partition and /bs (hdb1). Now I have / (hda1, /home (hda3 and /bs
(hdb1). Could this have anything to do with it? Everything is working
fine, including StarOffice itself, apparently, except for this saving
and backup problem.
Here is some more data:
[sher@adsl-77-232-182 sher]$ cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1
1
/dev/hda3 /home ext2 defaults 1
2
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0
0
/dev/hdb1 /bs ext2 defaults 1
3
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0
0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0
0
/dev/sda /mnt/zip auto noauto 0
0
none /proc proc defaults 0
0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0
0
[sher@adsl-77-232-182 sher]$
[sher@adsl-77-232-182 sher]$ df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 2.6G 1.4G 1.1G 56% /
/dev/hda3 1.2G 466M 657M 41% /home
/dev/hdb1 2.9G 423M 2.3G 15% /bs
[sher@adsl-77-232-182 sher]$
Once again, all my thanks.
Benjamin
Benjamin and Anna Sher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
