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

[Big Endian]

>  > >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...

Forgive my ignorance but I've never used graphical Inst.  I've only 
ever used text based, menu driven inst.  Whats the graphical one like?

daniel
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