Installing Manual

Multi-user installation

The installation procedure is nearly identical in all of these operating systems. Therefore, it

will be described only once with appropriate platform-specific comments.

The multi-user installation comprises two main steps:

1. The “network” installation (that is just a name, you do not need to have a network

for this).

2. The individual user setup.

Step 1: “Network” installation

1 Login as Administrator / root

The network installation has to be performed as Administrator under Windows NT/2000/XP

or as root under Linux and Solaris.

2 Run the setup program in “network” mode

After you have inserted the CDROM, you will have to run the setup program in “network”

mode.

• Under Windows NT/2000/XP:

Open the Start menu, choose Run, and type in the Open box:

X:\Windows\setup -net

Here “X” is the drive letter of your CDROM drive.

• Under Linux and Solaris:

If the CDROM is mounted in /mnt/cdrom open a terminal and type:

/mnt/cdrom/Linux/setup -net or /mnt/cdrom/Solaris/setup –net

3 Welcome

First you will be greeted by a

“welcome” dialog.

Click Next.

If the setup finds an older

installation of OpenOffice.org,

you will have the choice of

upgrading. Unless you know

what you are doing, select “install

OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 in a new

directory”.

Click Next.

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