On Wednesday 29 November 2006 09:04 am, Robert Manter wrote:
> Then it seems silly to have the custom install option telling the
> user that only 2.6MG will be used on the hard drive if the user
> chooses only to install the swriter program. If it won't custom
> install the way it offers, it ought to be deleted from the CD. If I
> eliminate all the system save stuff on D: drive I could probably
> get OpenOffice entirely on the laptop there.
There seems to be a misunderstanding of what these figures mean.
The SWriter is in fact only 2.6 MB is size. If you had installed OOo
without SWriter in the beginning and were wanting to add it to what
you had already installed, it would only add 2.6 MB to the
installation. If you were to look at any of the other components of
OOo, you would see a similar small size. In fact, if you were to
select all of them, the total would be much less than the actual
program when fully installed.
As I mentioned before, the majority of the total size is in the
core component. Perhaps, the size of the core component should have
been mentioned and then adding that adding individual components to
the core would be adding to that minimum valve.
Dan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Robert A. Manter Family" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 8:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [users] failure to custom install swriter from CD
>
> > On Tuesday 28 November 2006 10:58 am, Robert A. Manter Family
wrote:
> >> I have CD OpenOffice 2.0, have loaded it onto home computers.
> >> Want to load just the word processor onto laptop. Should take
> >> about 2.6MG. [6MG if I do help file also].When I do the X-ing
> >> out of the other stuff the CD still insists on loading a lot of
> >> other things. Can't load onto laptop because the thing tells me
> >> I am 223MG short. Obviously the custom install feature isn't
> >> working. What do I do? If you could tell me which files to copy
> >> from home computers, 2.6MG ought to go onto 3 floppies which I
> >> could then copy into laptop. Also tell me what to do to update
> >> config files on laptop if I do from floppies. Thanks,
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > What you do not understand is how OpenOffice.org works. More
> > than 75% of the program is the core element. All the applications
> > in OOo use this core element. So, this is why you more than 223
> > MB on your hard drive to install OOo even if you are only going
> > to use one application.
> > The only solution to your problem is to replace the hard drive
> > in your laptop with a larger one. I did this the first of this
> > year on a laptop I bought seven years earlier.
> >
> > Dan
> >
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