low-end octane2? (was: Re: [rescue] octane question)

[Kurt Huhn]

> >Agreed, totally.  But your average user, even a clued one, can't make
heads
> >or tails of it - "Text?  Plain background?  No mouse pointer?  AUUUGH!"
> >Once you've done it a few times, things become automatic...
>
> If you've ever installed anything on an SGI its automatic.  Inst(1)
> is not that hard.
>

Oh sure - inst is easy.  But a text based OS install would be described by
my wife as "confusing and difficult".  She can install MS Money, and even my
father-in-law can do a Windows ME system recovery on his HP Vectra <gag!>.
My wife once used graphical inst to install some packages on my Indy while I
was at work - pretty easy for her to accomplish.  Click the icon, enter
root's password, click install...

Kurt