> I see that you fixed that already:) I've
> tested out installing from NFS, since I ran out of
> space on my 4gig disk in the miata. So I'm rsyncing to
> my Tru64 box and sharing the directory out. Setup asks
> all of the questions, and I'm able to type in all of
> the requested info. It mounts the directory, however
> there is a problem in the script that I'm working on
> tracking down. When it goes to the command line to
> show any errors that may happen during the NFS
> startup, it freezes at the "yes/no" question as to if
> there were any errors and if you want to redo this. I
> have to Crtl-C out of it.. which seems to break the
> shell.
I've noticed this as well, and it's quite annoying. Interestingly, if you
switch over to another terminal and restart setup, the NFS install will
work fine. So there must be something going wrong on the first try that
gets fixed before the second one.
> I've tried out the full, menu, and expert
> install. They all work fine, no problems;)
Excellent. I'll keep that in mind. I've only done full installs. And I
haven't put too much work into the maketag scripts, so they are probably
going to be all sorts of broken. But knowing that other install methods
works is good.
> The only
> package that I saw that had nothing in it's
> description was the texinfo package.
I know a few things that cause that problem. It should be fixed by now,
though. Let me know if it persists.
> As for what to demo, everyone has already said the
> blender, KDE, xfract, mpegs, and other flashing stuff.
> The only other thing I could think of is to have some
> POV-ray examples to render. Another good thing is
> seti@home. All of those should grab peoples attention.
> Remember to have a slackware logo background.. that
> says something like "Slackware Linux AXP"... that
> should turn some heads as well. If you want, I can
> draw something out for a background in the gimp.
I'm going to spend next week looking into setting things up on the demo
machine and making it look all shiny. That's not going to be a whole lot
of fun, but it's something that needs to be worked on. I'll have
Slackware logos all around... I've already got a plate logo on the
machine.
> As soon as I have things working again I'll try to
> track down that bug in the NFS install portion of
> setup. I'll also try to finish the list of tested
> packages to you tonight.
Excellent. Thanks a lot.
--
Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
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