On 1 Jun 2001, Chris Hendrickson wrote:
> I've had a discussion with one of the support people regarding that.
>
> from what I was told, officially no, and that was a decision that came
> from higher up in managment, why I don't know, maybe some of the
> Netraverse people can clarify.
i have an ugly image of a pointy-haired boss here, and it giving
me a sinking feeling.
>
> However, if you load it on one machine using the installer, on that
> machine, a directory is created /var/win4lin/installer_tmp/ which is
> where the RPMs are placed, and can be copied to another machine for
> installation.
>
> perhaps if enough people mail Netraverse regarding this issue, they will
> realise that it is better for both them and us, to have the RPM's
> downloadable manually as well. Perhaps they could post them on the
> Member area.
>
> Sure, the installer is a great idea for those who A) are installing on a
> machine with a fast connection, B) are not familiar with rpm, or B) just
> want a point and click installation.
>
> But there are those of us that A) are installing on machines with a slow
> internet connection and want to download on a seprate machine with a
> faster connection B) are experienced in rpm or other package managers
> and/or C) do not want a point and click install, but want more control
> over the procedure.
in my case, i want to install the eval on a *different* box -- a test
box which is not hooked to the net -- and it is a *royal* pain in the
ass for netraverse to take this draconian policy to getting an eval
version of the software.
it's more annoying since, when i did this with win4lin 2.0, the installer
was just plain broken and wouldn't install anyway -- one of the install
scripts got confused regarding locations of certain directories and
just crashed and burned.
a pointed piece of advice to netraverse: you've really been burning
off your store of good will lately. this is *not* helping things.
rday
--
Robert P. J. Day
Eno River Technologies, Durham NC
Unix, Linux and Open Source training
"This is Microsoft technical support. How may I misinform you?"
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