[rescue] Re: the infamous missing CD

Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Fri Sep 5 13:42:12 CDT 2003


On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:07:46PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Earl D. Baugh Jr. wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I will try that on the next machine I load on.  You just boot off of
> > Solaris Software 1 of 2?
> 
> Yep.  You'll get a traditional "suninstall" session running inside of
> twm instead of that slow, floofy Java crap that makes even a beefy E450
> look like an 80386.  I prefer suninstall even over their OpenLook
> installation tool, as it's generally very fast and a lot easier to use.

suninstall running in twm?  I get a console-based install....

(It works fine and does the job, though I'd prefer to be able to tell it
not to install any of the CDE crap in the first place instead of having
to go back and remove it all maunally afterwards.)


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