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On Thursday 17 June 2004 3:57, Julian Hall wrote:
2. Run the installer with a terminal session open as root at the same time.
All installations need root access, that isn't surprising. It's perfectly possible to handle this via dialog boxes.
3. umount /mnt/cdrom every time it asked for the next CD 4. mount /mnt/cdrom and click OK to carry on loading the files. I have to say Linux does not seem to handle CD swapping as tidily as Windows does, as this approach seems quite messy.
What IS messy is that the software doesn't come on a DVD. GNU/Linux does tend towards logic over marketing and it is logical that an installation >600MB compressed would be distributed on a format that supported such a size. Now I take the point that if you are expected to burn the ISO images yourself then CD becomes more realistic, but for a commercial operation to still be supplying multiple CD's is odd. Having said all that, when distributions like Mandrake come on multiple CDROM's the disc swapping is handled superbly. I don't think you can blame GNU/Linux for the need to use a terminal and manual mount/unmount commands. The blame must lie squarely with the software distributor. So that's two counts. Lucky that the software worked - 3 strikes and they're out! It is unfortunately common for suppliers to put too little effort into the very first interaction with the user : installation. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk/ http://www.dclug.org.uk/ http://www.isbn.org.uk/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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