Another solution is to get VMware (www.vmware.com), and run a virtual windows.
Works great for office.
-- Stephen
Singer XJ Wang wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> > > Here is the logistical concern I need answered. Both the gf and I do
> > > occasionally have to bring work home. Normally this is in the form of MS
> > > Word documents, sometimes 40 pages or more. Now I know there are MS Word
> > > filters on some Linux wordprocessors however when you are dealing with very
> > > long documents, that include charts etc, small discrepencies when
> > > importing/exporting the file leads to some serious headaches. I will need
> > > to continue to have MS Office 97 (sorry). If I go ahead and do something
> > > that makes it impossible to run Office the gf WILL HAVE MY BOLLOCKS. She
> > > will live if it runs slowly - she will kill me if it doesn't run at all.
> > >
> > Try StarOffice first. Trust me on this... my boss
> > downloaded some MS DOC files off the 'Net and opened 'em in
> > Star Office just fine! At least give it a shot. :-)
> StarOffice will crunch most of Office 97 Documents. I say 99% of them, but
> I do have problems with occational documents that it displays and prints
> improperly and sometimes those will lead to problems. My advice: Try
> StarOFfice if not then try WOrdPerfect 8.0 and if not, sorry :(
> > >
> > > Here is the question then (finally)
> > > 600meg is not going to hold Win95 plus Office. So I
> > > want to install Office onto a network drive on the Linux
> > > server. Will a 10Mbit network be quick enough for the
> > > Windows machine to run Office from the networked
> > > drive? Yes I know Office is slow anyway, even
> > > slower on a 486, but will a 10Mbit allow Office to
> > > actually work?
> > >
> Suprisly 600MB will indeed install MS Office and Windows 95. A bare
> mininium install of WIndows 95 OSR 2.0 fully stripped down takes ~130. A
> Full OFfice 97 Install takes ~230MB [Office 97 Professional]. Now, if you
> want to take off some of the less useful parts like Access/PowerPoint if
> you don't use them, then it goes down. Logically, it should not be that
> large. At home, for my parents I have setup a Windows 95/Office
> 97/Netscape 4.08/Q-Modem Pro Partition and it only takes 500ish. [not
> minium install of WIn95 and FAT32].
>
> Otherwise the network install is a good idea
>
> > If you can
> get SAMBA up and running, I don't
> see why it > wouldn't work, so long as MS Office doesn't mind doing a
> > "Network Install" or at least installing to a Network hard
> > drive.
> >
