On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 11:42:17 -0400
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:

> 
> openoffice-bin seems to overflow my /tmp/ in attempting to install.
> Is there any reasonable way to tell it to use another directory to
> unpack in?
> 
> -- 
> Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com

Assuming you have a large swap partition, you can mount /tmp as mfs filesytsem.
Belw is the line from my /etc/fstab file:

/dev/sd0b /tmp mfs rw,-s=4194828

See mount_mfs(8)