Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!ucdavis!caldwr!rfinch From: rfinch@caldwr.water.ca.gov (Ralph Finch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Software installation opinions needed Message-ID: <233@locke.water.ca.gov> Date: 20 Sep 90 19:05:53 GMT References: <25908@shamash.cdc.com> <1990Sep19.125944.6489@cs.utk.edu> <4547@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> Organization: Calif. Dept. of Water Resources, Sac. Lines: 15 In article <4547@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> matthias.kandler@informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kandler) writes: . . . >Therefore I decided to leave SunOS >suninstall and friends alone and write my own installation scripts. >(Another reason is, that suninstall is so highly interactive. It's >very boring to install 40+ Suns and to answer the same questions >everytime.) Another reason is that the suninstall checks partition space and doesn't recognize nfs mounted directories, thus falsely aborting when in fact there is enough space. -- Ralph Finch 916-445-0088 rfinch@water.ca.gov ...ucbvax!ucdavis!caldwr!rfinch Any opinions expressed are my own; they do not represent the DWR