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In <1993Nov1.165317.22836@rosevax.rosemount.com> grante@hydro.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards) writes:

:Rick (pclink@qus102.qld.tne.oz.au) wrote:

:: I've been working with the LGX CDROM for a for a fortnight now, and I'd
:: thought I'd share my experiences.

:[...]

:: The install script allows you a choice of installations - cd_dependant
:: (1Mb), runtime (27Mb), complete (235Mb) and everything (700Mb).  I
:: installed the runtime system, with a view to customizing my system with
:: the control panel, an application that allows you to selectively install
:: packages.  Some of the problems I encountered may have been due to this
:: partial install - it's possible that users doing the complete install
:: would have less trouble.

:I think you're right.  Comparing my experience with ta complete
:install with another's experience with a runtime-then-selectively-install
:setup, I had fewer problems.  Of course you've got to have 235MB to spare
:if you're going to do a complete install then delete what you don't use.

:The main problems I had were in trying to rebuild the kernel.  I finally
:grabbed the real pl13 soruces from sunsite.

I had a lot of trouble with the runtime-then-selectively-install.
Then I switched to the CD-rom-dependent installation, remade the tree
so that utilities I know I use often are on the hard disk.
Also, when a program complain it can't write to the cd-rom I move
the offending directory to the hard disk. (I had to do this for metafont.)

This work a lot better.

The keymaps do not work well, Slackware is better for this.
Emacs do not accept movement by arrows.

Storing the sources expanded on the CD-rom is stupid me thinks,
especially since I could not compile emacs with the sources on the
CD-rom.
I measured how much space the sources would need when tarred and
gzipped. 98 Mbyte compared to 422 expanded. (the latter with du
but the manual seem to confirm this)

I would be much happier with compressed source.
Also, if the sources were compressed, maybe essential games like
fortune, atc and nethack would fit too. And utilities like unzip.

I have not been able to connect to yggdrasil.com to get help so the
comment about making the /usr/spool/mail directory world writable
helped me. (Thanks!)

Things that did work well with cd-dependent are:
lpr
X (mostly)
TeX

Conclusion: Stay clear of the run-time installation if you can.
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