[NCLUG] Mandrake kills MS

[James DeWitt]

Hi Elizabeth,

I don't know what happened with your XP partition, but it would likely 
break Mandrake badly to just reinstall XP now.

However, OpenOffice does a fine job of reading and writing most MS office 
formats, and it is pretty simple to enable Mozilla to support Java.
For example, I have Mozilla 1.4.2, and the 1.4.2_03 JDK from Sun installed in
/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03 (the version numbers are coincidental).

The Java plugin is enabled by making a symlink in the Mozilla plugin directory 
like so:

/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.2/plugins:

    libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
    libjavaplugin_oji.so ->
            /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
    libnullplugin.so

An easy site to test your Java configuration on is:
http://time.gov/timezone.cgi?Mountain/d/-7

Hope this helps,
JD


On Sunday 28 March 2004 11:17 am, Person Who Asked To Have Her Name Removed From The Internet wrote:
> just when I thought I had it working,
>  I tried to switch to Windows since mozilla doesn't support java 1.2
> runtime, and i need to view a ppt file,
>
> and now WIndows won't load!  I think Mandrake's install of 10.0
> overwrote on the windows partition to perhaps install lilo?
>
> Now i get:
> "File is missing or corrupt
> <Windows root>\system32\hal.dll
> Please re-install a copy of the above file.
>
>
> I tried to boot from the CD, but (and i noticed this with
> the Mandrake cd 1 install disk too),
> my system doesn't seem to recognize a boot cd disk anymore!
> (and of course I don't make floppy boot disks, blech)
>
> SO NOW can someone help me figure this one out.
> Anyone explain what happened?
> What would then happen if i try to reinstall Windows XP?
> and how do i make a windows xp boot disk from linux?
>
> that was so Micro$oft of Mandrake to overwrite someone else's
> partition!!!!!! ARGH!!!!!
>
> thanks,
> -lost and confuzzled
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