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Article #58118Re: New user questions
From: Kent Tong
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 00:00
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)? --- Kent Tong Freeman Installer ==> http://www.netnet.net/users/freeman/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,46c6dc1110d99395 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: freemant@wr.com.au (Kent Tong) Subject: Re: New user questions Date: 1996/07/18 Message-ID: <4sk57t$3c2@metro.usyd.edu.au> X-Deja-AN: 168725746 distribution: inet references: <4shffj$pea@metro.usyd.edu.au> <31EC49B9.167EB0E7@s4.elec.uq.edu.au> organization: TipTec Development newsgroups: aus.computers.linux