Re: StarOffice 6.0 On Solaris

From: M Khomo (mkhomo_at_ostecs.com)
Date: 12/14/03

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    Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
    > On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 18:01:13 +0000
    > M Khomo <mkhomo@ostecs.com> wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
    >>
    >>>Upgrading to the latest recommended cluster shouldn't be much of
    >>>a problem.
    >>
    >>For the record, uname says:
    >> SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-06 SunBlade 100 UltraSparc IIe
    >
    >
    > I've been using SO on an Ultra-1 and an Ultra-60 with
    > Solaris 8 without problems, editing files created with
    > the Linux and Windows versions. I apply all the recommended
    > patch sets, as well as the updates to SO.
    >
    >
    ...
    >>>I can only say that I have no problems at all with StarOffice 6.0
    >>>and 6.1beta2 on my Solaris8 (06/00 fully patched). It works well,
    >>>and I can save files without problems.
    >>
    >>So just patching Sol8 should do it then, are there pros/cons against
    >>going to Sol9?

    At this point I should have asked: How do you go about patching Sol8?
    But I did not, and since looking at the sun web site over the past few
    months, I did not find an immediate answer.
    >
    >
    > Either patching Sol8, or SO6, or both. SO6 does run pretty well on
    > Solaris8, so something is amiss on your box. What exactly, I cannot
    > say.
    > Solaris 9 is quite a bit faster than Solaris 8, especially in the
    > disk access department, which is especially attractive for those
    > on slow IDE disks (as the Blade 100).
    > sol-9-u5-sparc-v2.iso
    >
    >>I've just finished lugging the box to a site with dsl access to begin
    >>the patchwork. This box is already strapped for disk space so I hope I'm
    >>not onto some new slippery slope.

    As it turns out, higher priorities intervened, and 'saving-w-SO6 on
    solaris' became a non-issue. In the meantime, after being frustrated
    with finding patches, I finally came upon the December Sol9 downloads,
    and then thought, what-the-heck? Go for that instead.

    In that process I also noticed that there's also StarOffice7 available
    retail, so it should be no problem picking that up at the local
    retailer; so long as I bring my Ultra/Blade100 to Sol9.

    >
    > Have you tried re-installing SO6? If that doesn't work, first try to
    > apply the SO patches before patching Solaris.

    Reinstall did not change things; Finding the SO patches was a bit of a
    distraction, so I never got to this intermediate attempt. I mistakenly
    thought getthing the Solaris patches was more useful. (I had to do that
    innumerable times to support one java feature or other over the years,
    and I figured I should just patch the OS.) Who'd have thought that the
    desktop dodad now wags the platform ***?

    >

    In trying this simple install of Sol9, I have now spent four days trying
    to download the three required files. I'm using the DSL site and they
    come down at ~80kbps; but they stall every now-and again; but once they
    arrive in one piece, they are not valid. For one reason or another. On
    second attempt I have extracted (from sol-9-u5-sparc-v1.zip) and burned
    the V1 sparc iso image (sol-9-u5-sparc-v1.iso), and extracted (from
    sol-9-u5-sparc-v2.zip) and burned the V2 sparc iso image
    (sol-9-u5-sparc-v2.iso). (Incidentally, unlike the instructions, only
    the Solaris unzip works. WinZip does not.)

    Unfortunately, the 'install' zipped image is proving resistant.
    Initially, the sun website downloaded "sol-9-u4-install-sparc.zip", some
    330MB, which would not unzip on three download attempts. Today, on maybe
    the fifth attempt the same site provides "sol-9-u5-install-sparc.zip" of
    some 7MB which does not unzip either.

    So now, the simple solution of buying StarOffice7 to run against Sol9 is
    stuck in the mud. The Sol9 upgrade was intended for a development
    platform on a number of new projects, but this is all like a wet blanket
    over the whole idea.

    Any words of encouragement and/or redirection to the 'correct' solution
    for either:
    1) getting the Sol9 downloads/installation to just work as advertised
    OR
    2) working with StarOffice[6] -w- whatever Solaris OS on an ultra
    (Blade100) acquired a mere 2yrs ago?

    This slab is fast turning into slate.

    MK

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