Re: staroffice package

[Tom Pfeifer <tplists@optonline.net>]

Dave Sherohman wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:07:58PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote:
> > I just installed it today with out doing this.  I just ran the installer from a
> > directory that I created in my home directory.  I've only tried the word
> > processor out so far but it works great.  What's going to be broken because
> > I didn't do a "network install?"
> 
> network install:  100 M[1] + 2 M/user
> standard install: 100 M/user
> 
> It's functionally identical, but if you're going to have multiple users
> accessing SO (bloated stuck pig that it is), the network install saves
> lots of disk space.
> 
> [1]  I don't recall how much space SO actually takes up, but, given that
> the install binary it 97 M, it seems safe to assume that it demands at
> least 100 M to install.
> 

Your assumption is very safe. SO 5.2 takes up about 250 MB on my system.

Tom