Laptops, Corel and Linux, Oh my...

[Lucas Vogel]

I don't know about the installation part of your question, but you
should have no problem at all installing Corel WordPerfect on any
installation, least of all Caldera. If I remember correctly, COL comes
with the WordPerfect Trial on the disk.


Tim Weaver wrote:
> 
> Background:
> Have Toshiba Satellite Pro 430 CDT on which I had successfully installed
> Caldera OL 2.3 w/PCMCIA support and had successfully connected to our home
> network.  Graphic sucked a little (400x640 or something like that).  So, it
> worked.
> 
> A friend bought the Corel Linux w/WP8.  I tried to install it and it took a
> dump at 98% of the installation.  Tried fdisking the MBR and disk and
> reinstalling several times, using several different installation
> configurations but it hung at 98% each time (I even left it for 1/2 hour to
> make sure I wasn't rushing it...).  I tried using the original CD-Rom's (I'd
> been using copies) with the same result.
> 
> We tried installing on my friend's Toshiba Tecra 4070 with the same
> result...nada.
> 
> I don't have a regular machine upon which to install this version of Linux
> at this time.
> 
> I had read somewhere that the Corel version of Linux was good on laptops.  I
> know that the graphics during installation were much better than the
> Caldera version (the Corel auto configured my graphics card/chipset,
> something I had to do manually in Caldera).
> 
> Any ideas on what's causing the hang up and, if I can't get the Corel
> version up and running, is there any reason you can think of that would
> prevent me from installing WordPerfect 8 onto a machine with Caldera or RH
> Linux on it?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Tim
> 
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