Just to rule a line under this - I have now successfully installed. The problem was a couple of corrupt downloads. Sun have published checksums for them on the news group for staroffice 6 beta, so I recommend that anyone installing checks them after downloading. It seems that corruption - at least the type I saw - results in some sort of loop in the installer which can fill up your disk. Depending on where you are installing, that can be nasty!
/Brian On Thursday 06 December 2001 1:05 am, you wrote: > Just a quik question, here. Why use StarOffice when Openoffice runs much > better? They're from the same people, sort of, and Openoffice never gives > me any problems. Am I missing something? > > Lanman > > On Wednesday 05 December 2001 08:40 am, you wrote: > > Brian Parish wrote: > > > I know many people on the list are using the staroffice beta, so I'll > > > ask here because I haven't set up to participate in the news group > > > specific to this. > > > > > > When I attempt to install, the directory into which it's writing grows > > > to 2.2GB then it fails always on a file called ladder.wmf > > > > Even scarier, a friend of mine tried to install it on his Mandrake 8.1 > > setup and it completely fragged his system. He had to do a complete > > reinstall... Any one know what might have caused that?
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