[3022] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: current status?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Coventry)
Sun Oct 1 09:23:33 2000
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 09:23:26 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200010011323.JAA09365@nerd-xing.mit.edu>
From: Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU>
To: cfox@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <200010010422.AAA01437@HOTASS-1.MIT.EDU> (message from Camilla R
Fox on Sun, 01 Oct 2000 00:22:33 -0400)
> So, as near as I can tell (I'm talking to a friend I just had test it)
> the first of the package selections in text mode has no "Athena"
> option. You choose "Custom" and select the athena package group later
> on.
This sounds like your friend is using the old version of the installer,
which makes sense because I neglected to mention that my changes have
not been incorporated into the version that everyone is testing, yet.
My apologies. I suggest you try pointing the installer to
ni:/afs/sipb/system/rhlinux/redhat-6.2
...and try that, instead. You may not want to go through the whole
install, though, as I found it to be very slow (1 hr 45 min just to
install the packages.) At any rate, this has an "Athena Workstation"
option, and it didn't ask me about any packages at all. I assume the
package instructions are contained in the AthenaWorkstation class that
is also used in the gui install, in which case the packages installed
would be exactly the same.
> punt "KDE Workstation" in favor of "Athena Worstation", in the very
> first package selection place, and then people are going to be less
> tempted to pick and choose later.
That makes getting rid of the other package options sound like a good
idea all round. Is there any reason not to leave just the Athena and
Custom install options?
Alex.
