OpenOffice live

[Aloone_Jonez]

Just as an experiment I copied the OO install directory to a USB stick and ran it on one of the college computers and it worked so I've burned it to CD, now I might add an autorun.inf file to make it pop up when the CD's inserted.

What do you lot think?

I've heard of live Linux but I didn't know live OpenOffice is possible, do you think I should be working on my own distro?

I might beable to put the Linux and Mac versions on the same CD!

[Refalm]

What about copying OOo (the actual directory, not the setup), burning it on CD and running it from there?

[Aloone_Jonez]

That's exactly what I did.

[Refalm]

Ah, by install directory, I thought you meant that directory from which you're supposed to install OOo.

But this is pretty awesome stuff. I hate it when I have to use Office on a strange computer.

[Aloone_Jonez]

I assume you mean MS Office, well now you don't have to use it anymore!

I've also copied OOo onto my user area at college (it won't install under a restricted account) - no more MS Office for me!

[piratePenguin]

Hm, that's cool.

http://www.theopencd.org/
You could start your own "live opencd" project, with "live OOo/gaim/firefox" etc. on it. You could try opera too, but you'd need to get permission from them to redistribute it.

In school I have FF installed in my network folder and I can run it on all the computers. So, for just a few MB, you could copy the directory FF is installed to onto the CD. You could get some extensions and stuff in it too...

GAIM I also have installed on my folder on the network in school, but I have to set the library search path (LD_LIBRARY_PATH?) on each computer so it can find the GTK+/etc. libraries.

Programs after installation are usually bigger than the install files, so you mightn't get too much on them.

[Aloone_Jonez]

It appears to be mostly aimed at Windows users:

You can also select whether OpenOffice.org should open Microsoft Office documents by default.

I would aim OOo live at Windows users too, as they're far less likly to be aware of it.

[piratePenguin]

It appears to be mostly aimed at Windows users:

Well yes:

The programs run in Windows

It would be cool if you could get all the programs from the opencd to run from a CD. Might need to be a dvd though. Most computers running this software will have DVD-drives anyhow.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

Cool ... I want a bootable OpenOffice CD ... how do you do it ? Well I suppose there may be problems doing something with the stuff you produce ... how do you print if you're booted into OpenOffice ?

[Aloone_Jonez]

What do you mean by bootable?

For that you'd need to add an OS, Linux would do, just a basic kernel, X and TWM.

Or do you mean one that loads on top of an OS like Windows?

That's exactly what I've created, just add autorun.inf and thre you go.

[davidnix71]

If you have Winternals or BartPE bootable Windows, you should be able to add OO to the disc.

http://www.reatogo.de/  has a screenshot of a bootable XP cd with OO preinstalled, using BartPE

[H_TeXMeX_H]

Hmmm ... I dunno I was just thinking they made a bootable nethack ... how does that work ? I suppose you would need an OS to boot it ... so it's probably better to just use a Linux live CD that includes OOo like Knoppix.

[Pathos]

yes. but most public computers are locked down in the bios so that you can't boot from CD anyway.