From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 19 9: 3:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.tar.com (ns.tar.com [204.95.187.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48D0611424 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 09:03:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dick@ns.tar.com) Received: (from dick@localhost) by ns.tar.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA49161; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:02:55 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dick) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:02:55 -0600 From: "Richard Seaman, Jr." To: Peter Wemm Cc: "Richard Seaman, Jr." , Geoff Rehmet , "'hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Star Office 5 woes Message-ID: <19990219110255.B44582@tar.com> References: <19990218102949.A38074@tar.com> <199902191623.AAA07202@spinner.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199902191623.AAA07202@spinner.netplex.com.au>; from Peter Wemm on Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 12:23:51AM +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 12:23:51AM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > I don't know anybody who's been able to get it to work, except for you. :-) Actually, I think quite a few people are running it ok. > I was toying with the idea of using the fax/email method of registering > and typing in the codes, but I decided to have a look around first. I > tried the example scripts, and a good number of them also had the same > sort of runtime errors. Yes, I think the problem is more than just the registration script. Somehow I think it can't find some of the files it needs, or the environment doesn't get set right, or something like that. > About the only thing left I can think of is hardware/memory/cpu > differences. I upgraded my motherboard (doubled ram to 128MB) and a 50% > faster cpu (still a cyrix though. :-(..) and replaced the drives with a > much faster set and still didn't get any joy. FWIW, I'm running it on a machine with K6-266, 256MB RAM, 512MB swap, and its on a 11.5GB UDMA drive. But, I really doubt that hardware is the issue. > What I'm curious to know is, does it consistantly work for you when you > reinstall it and reregister it? It consistently works, but I haven't tried reinstalling and re-registering except 1) the first time I installed it and had the same problems you do 2) the second time I reinstalled it, when it worked, and 3) the last time I installed it to generate the transcript that is at lt.tar.com. -- Richard Seaman, Jr. email: dick@tar.com 5182 N. Maple Lane phone: 414-367-5450 Chenequa WI 53058 fax: 414-367-5852 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message