Larry Marshall wrote:
> > _IF_ you install and run Drakfont _BEFORE_ installing Staroffice it
> > finds and can use those pesky Windows fonts.
> > Useful?
>
> Useful...I left this msg, removed SOffice and started this process:
>
> 1) load Drakfont
> 2) Get Windows fonts
> 3) Checked with Netscape font manager and they're available
> 4) Installed SOffice using 7.2 rpms
> 5) Loaded new document
> 6) checked fonts available and was disappointed that the TTF fonts aren't
> there.
>
> What step did I miss? Are you doing anything other than defaults with
> xfs?
I don't think you 'missed' anything..
My re-install process has settled down to the following steps.
( I am still using the 7.0(Air) cd )
1. Tar off home directories and other hard-to-fix data to a
windows-shared
partition on a removable hdd. 540mb maxtor
2. powerdown and remove ribbon cable from said hdd as safety precaution.
3. reboot from installation floppy and do clean developer install using
defaults
3. login as first user - I have three other than root - su and set the
link for
reading cdrom - check it works.
4. check that uid and gid numbers are same as previous installation!!
5. setup pppd from drakconf
6. setup kppp for each user
7. run netscape 4.73 for each user as user and do the edit->preferences
thing.
8. SHUTDOWN - POWEROFF - RESTART (habit from years back with any
installation.)
9. access net from each user to prove it.
10. su and remove netscape 4.73 - install 4.75 from rpms.
11. step 9 repeated
12. install numlockx and reboot to prove.
14. massage /etc/fstab to include 'safety hdd'
13. shutdown and reconnect safety hdd which has the user data and other
apps.
14. reboot and install pmfirewall and portsentry.
Then start installing other software in no particular order - mix of
rpms
and tars. At this point I still haven't recovered the user data.
Up til now I've been quite happy with so5.1 which I have as a bunch
of tars.
Previously, I would have installed drakfont at some other random point,
as in
when I got sick of trying to read times roman text in kedit, but for
some reason
I did it early in the recovery process.
At this point during re-install #28 I decided I'd get so5.2 and the java
1.18-v3
files - again as tars. Took almost 20 hours on my variable speed
variable quality string-between-2-cans phoneline!! And installed them -
jdk stuff first.
It was during the preferences setup after installation that I noticed
that the
Arial font from Windows was there, and consulted my checklist and saw
that
drakfont was already in.
Now I'm not entirely sure about this but certainly ttf fonts didn't show
up
in so5.1, maybe so5.2 reads the X11 font structure where so5.1 didn't?
Due to a problem in trying to get kernel 2.2.17 compiled I'm about to
start
on re-install #29 because I cannot get rid of an error which occurs
during
booting.
I shall test and advise.
Cheers
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