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Re: New user questions

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From: Kent Tong
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 00:00
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Allan Rae <rae@s4.elec.uq.edu.au> wrote:

>Kent Tong wrote:
>> 
>> 1. There is a very nice interface letting me to choose what packages
>>    to install during the initial install. Is there something similar
>>    after Linux has been setup? Currently the best I can do is to

>The program you used for graphical installation is called 'glint' and it
>runs under X.  In fact if you login as root and 'startx' the default
>program menu (press your left mouse button)  contains a reference to
>glint in either the main menu itself or in Applications (I can't
>remember exactly but it is there).

Thanks for your info. Actually I was refering to the text interface
(as opposed to the X-window interface) during the initial setup.
But anyway, if glint provides something similar under X, that's just
fine!

>I may however be getting confused because I also bought the Linux Bible
>-- LDP in printed form which had a CD-ROM full of the documents also.

How is Linux Bible different from all the online doc (howto, faq, 
LDP added together)?


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Kent Tong
Freeman Installer ==> http://www.netnet.net/users/freeman/
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From: freemant@wr.com.au (Kent Tong)
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Date: 1996/07/18
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