How do I install Star Office 5.2

bubba169 · 05-10-2002, 10:37 AM

I have a Pentium 166Mhz (non MMX) CPU, 16mb of ram, Maxtor 4.3 gig hard drive, Toshiba 32x CD-rom, Creative CT2960 ISA sound card, 3-Com 3c905-tx NIC, microsoft 2 button serial mouse, & a Trident TGUI9680-1 PCI video card with 1mb of video memory & a Sceptre CC-615GLI. I installed Vector Linux 1.8, everything went great. My question is: I downloaded Star Office 5.2 and burned it to a CD. How can I install this on my Linux machine? When I type # mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom I get this message /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device I tried replacing /dev/cdrom with /dev/hdc and got the same message. I used a Windows 98 machine to download Vector Linux and Star Office and burned both to seperate disc

neo77777 · 05-10-2002, 10:45 AM

Post your /etc/fstab it'll help a bit.
Are you sure your cdrom is /dev/hdc ?

neo77777 · 05-10-2002, 10:48 AM

Another thingy if the Linux system and Windows system are networked and samba filesharing is configured you don't need to burn the files, right? But if they are not,then you can have a faulty burn on your hands.

zmedico · 05-10-2002, 12:53 PM

Please don't take this the wrong way, but this seems like more of a "How do I mount a cdrom" than "how do I install Star Office" question. I love being critical...

I would recommend the OpenOffice.org, which is the "free software" version of Star Office. http://www.openoffice.org

For technical information, I always recommend that people check out the Guides and HOWTOS at the Linux Documentation Project http://www.tldp.org
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/CDROM-HOWTO/index.html

jglen490 · 05-10-2002, 02:20 PM

First:

A CDROM is not a device -- hdc IS a device, so the

Quote:

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

command is not a logical construct. You can mount it by calling the correct device (probably /dev/hdc) and the correct mount point (/mnt/cdrom, if the mount point actually exists).

Once you get your mount command straightened out then you can try to install StarOffice in X. The way I did it in KDE was to open Konqueror, cd into /mnt/cdrom, then click on the first ".bin" file ('cause I took the option to download multiples). If you have only one ".bin" file, then click on that. IIRC it must be done in X. Once it's installed, then click on "setup" as a normal user, in X, and watch the setup go by!!