[cw-discuss] Installing MS Office 2000 on Fedora Core 6

[Jeremy White]

> Missed the 2nd one.  Running with selinux=disabled already, but modified
> grub as suggested.  Ran "tune2fs -O ^dir_index  /dev/hda8" (the /home
> filesystem).

You may want to recheck that; the file system in fc6 by default
is now set to a funky /Vol/Group/Whatis/thing.

Doing my /dev/hdaX didn't do it for me; I had to do the funky one.

You'll know you've succeeded if/when an
  ls -f
returns . and .. as the first two entries.

> No.  Work-around for me was to boot the machine under CentOS 4.4 which
> is also installed, install CrossOver 6, IE6, and Office 2000, and reboot
> to Fedora Core 6.  (Seems to be working MUCH better than the earlier
> kludge of trying to restore an earlier CrossOver install and upgrading
> which messed up menus and associations badly.)  Not an option for
> everyone.  Hope you can fix this.

Fedora Core is deeply frustrating; we may have to move it into
the same category as Gentoo - unsupportable.

We worked with FC through the fall, and it was quite maddening.

One day it worked, another day a glibc bug broke everything,
another day we got a kernel version that kernel paniced
the box on boot (had to revert).

I think a real problem is that there isn't a single 'FC6' - instead,
there is 'FC6 updated as of this exact moment in time'.  I know
that on an FC6 box updated as of December 1, 2006, all of our
supported applications install and function, so long as you
use the workarounds we provide (actually, only the tune2fs and
audit workarounds are known to be required, but turning off selinux
is almost always a good thing to try as well).

So I, too, hope that it works.  However, until the Fedora engineers
give a *bleep* about maintaining compatiblity with Wine,
I'm afraid there isn't much hope.  Frankly, a lot of that is simply
the bleeding edge nature of Fedora Core; I'd honestly recommend
something like CentOS for any sort of production use.

With all that said, it's worth doing a full update as well,
and trying again; what we found through the fall was that there
was always a bug fix waiting in the wings (the trick was to get
the bug fix, but not get the next bug :-(  ).

Cheers,

Jeremy