On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, B Sher wrote:
> Unfortunately, none has yet really figured it out.
Room for doubt on that one!
> 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.
I told you did I not, that StarOffice 5.1 will not navigate over mount
points. This would indicate that SO is not using the standard file system
commands. [which should be warning enough to stay away]
It also indicates that it was never tested by StarDivision or Sun
Microsystems on an installation which is spread over many partitions.
[as is recommended by many Linux devotees]
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Regards,
Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.