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Dear Void Main....RE:8.0

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Ice-9:
Actually SuSE 8.0 came with Starofice 5.2, not 6 and now with the release of 8.1 they have included Openoffice.

voidmain:
You are correct. I noticed the StarOffice 5.2 libraries during the install. I hate 5.2. Good move on the OOo 1.x for the new release, but that brings up the fact that I am not getting the latest release.    Guess things haven't changed unless I can get 8.1 in ISO form. I believe they always have offered the previous release in ISO format. Again, nothing wrong with that.

I just started up a new VMware session, selected the first ISO to act as my CD-ROM drive and started installing SuSe 8.0 in a VMware session. The installation menu is stupid simple (good thing). I looked through all the options and chose to do a default install on my 4GB virtual disk.

Unfortunately a default install also needs the second disk. No problem, I want to get them all anyhow and am downloading the second disk now. The install will be on hold until that point (I could start a fresh minimal install but I'll just wait, no hurry).

voidmain:
Ok, posting this from Konqueror running under SuSe 8.0 which is running under VMware running under RedHat 8.0.    Looks very nice so far (familiar old KDE 3.x). Very polished. Lotsa graphical system tools etc.

How come none of the KDE people got pissed at Suse for changing the default look to a SuSe look like they did with RedHat?  I don't see where RedHat did any more hacking to KDE's looks than SuSe has. Don't know why I mention it because it doesn't bother me in either case.

Bazoukas:
how do you set the command on 99? I did this. WHats missing?

i typed ncftpget then the addy (ftp bla bla bla). But how do you set it on 99?

[ October 08, 2002: Message edited by: bazoukas ]

voidmain:
This is how I start an ISO download from the command line:


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This allows up to 99 login failures due to too many users, etc. It also runs ncftp in the background so I don't have to keep the shell open and can log off. Or if I accidentally close the shell the download continues. Plus I can just press the UPARROW and change the 1 to a 2 to get the second ISO, etc.

Of course there are ncftp switches that will kick the download off in the background as well, but the & works just as well.

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