SuSE Pro 7.1 ... Freezing? – 4026 days old

[muckshifter]

Thought I would have another go at Linux, considering I was given a BIG box stuffed full of CD's & manuals.

The box contained 7 (yep seven) CD's & one DVD ... ok I'll cut the story short.

Had a spare 10gig so slapped it in on secondary as master and popped in the 1st CD. Set the BIOS to boot from CD and turned on.

The installation was easy, just kept pressing the "next" button even when ask where/what drive to install to.

Well was I surprised or what?
Not only was the installation faultless but SuSE had installed onto the 10gig drive and left alone my XP setup. Chalk one up for SuSE.

Boot to Linux, using the floppy disk it had made, and was pleased to see a nice greenie desktop. Makes a nice change from blue.

OK ok, I'll get to the point...
One of the icons on the desktop is StarOffice ... when you click on it, it needs to be installed and if you press "next" that’s it ... one frozen computer.

Nowhere in any of the books does it say anything about installing StarOffice.


Anybody have any Idea.


More problems to follow later.

[frombadtraverse]

Let me look through my suse manuals (I have 7.3 pro), may take a while, but in the meantime have you gone to the suse website. They have a rather good knowledge base, but it is a bother navigating. I didn't try to install Star Office, didn't really need it yet, was too busy getting OpenGL with the nvidia drivers (at nvidia website with good installation instructions), then changed to W2K for the UD push. I'm thinking I have to go back to Linux, on that one at least, as just listening to the fans without doing anything on the computer isn't why I bought it.

Probably install it with RPM or YAST, though sometimes RPM works best from command line if you have an install routine.

[muckshifter]

Yep, that SuSE site is a bugger to find anything, sad.

StarOffice is on disk 3 so I attempted to err, install it using YAST. You would think after 25 years of messing with computers that this would be an easy/simple task.

Back to the "Configuration" book, page 75 ... it seems that I need to use disk 1 ... excuse me a minuet while I reboot.

[muckshifter]

Well that was the wrong book.

However, I found the right one, Apllications page 2

I have the icon for StarOffice on the desktop, now the book he say ...

"Although you now have SO on your computer, the graphical installation program itself must be run before you can use SO. Load the installation program byclicking on the SO icon on your KDE desktop. Ifyou do not find an icon, enter: /opt/office52/program/soffice as a normal user, not as root."

... sorry pal, that no work ... it still freezes the blody computer.

[frombadtraverse]

Don't know if you have an applications manual with that, might try it too. Of course, you could always use Emacs , or Tex LOL. I think the main problem is it's a commercial program, and there are lots of restrictions on those, even though it's included.

[frombadtraverse]

We're out of sync here, give me a day to try mine and see if I can figure out a way. I'll try to hook up with you about this time tomorrow.

[frombadtraverse]

Well, I rebooted and started into linux for the first time in a month, and wouldn't you know the whole partition is hosed. I'm trying to do a rescue now, but it doesn't look good as the superblock seems to be corrupted. I may have to reinstall (find the time to reinstall), LOL, and my Win partition seems to be a problem too. Could be the HD, just seemed to work fine running UD and nothing else for a month, but once I did a reboot things look ugly on the three OS's I have on it.

I wish you luck, and sorry I can't help by trying it out on my system but I need to get the system up again.

Let me know how you fare.

[muckshifter]

BUMP

I got half way this time ... then it Froze again.