On Wed, 09 Feb 2000, John Starkey wrote:
>
> >
> > Ah!, again the click that does not work.
> > May i suggest going to a normal console, hit ctrl-alt F1 or F2 etc.
>
> Says it can't open X. I wish this would work.
I just read the mail from someone who has installed start office,
what i told you to do above will not work, as the other chappie
explaned, staroffice has to be installed under X.
>
> > The way you descrive /dev/cdrom i presume the source is on cd, you
> > are running redhat so the chances are the source archive is in rpm
> > format, altho' i am presuming that.
>
> Nah. It's just a generic Linux file.
Now what is that suppose to mean,????
>
> > If the file is in tar.gz form do;
>
> Actually it's a script. A piston icon.
>
> > Normally there will be several files to read,
> > INSTALL
> > README
>
> I've got install.pdf open on my Mac. So it's there all the time.
>
> > and possablly a file called ./configure
>
> ./setup but again it doesn't work in term mode.I guess it needs to talk to X.
As per the other chappies mail.
>
> > It could of course be a zip file, if so use the unzip program to
> > unpack it.
> >
>
> There is an install.zip but there's nothing executable in there.
The setup program will unzip it, it sounds very much the same as
the way one has to install acroreader and other converted Do$ files.
>
> > Now not having star office all the above are just pointers and it
> > could well be that none of the options is valid.
>
> Thanks though.
>
> > I am sure someone else who has star office will help you more.
> >
>
> Actually I don't think it's Star Office. I can't open anything from the CDROM (txt,
>pdf,
> anything). But other CDROMs work fine.
>
> I have installed off this CD several times. And I was well on my way to installing
>on this
> box with this CD. But I stopped it mid-swing. Somehow it tainted the image or
>something.
Above you say cant open anything from the cdrom, in the very next
sentance you say, i have installed off the cdrom several times.???
You cannot damage a cdrom in a cdrom drive by simply reading from it,
you cant damage a iso9660 cdrom by trying to write to it because its
mounted read only.
You will need to elaborate on what you mean.....
>
> Thanks again.
>
> John
>
> >
> > >
> > > Anyone know what's happening???
> > >
> > > TIA.
> > >
> > > John
> >
> > --
> > Regards Richard
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
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