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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Software installation opinions needed
Message-ID: <0706TQG@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 26 Sep 90 15:15:10 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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Ah, you haven't *lived* until you've installed Oracle on System V/386
with Ethernet.

It requires you set up an Oracle user and so on manually, then dives into
a highly complex under-documented script... that aborts part way through
because you needed to edit a Makefile!

Worst of both worlds: not only is it expert-hostile, it's novice-hostile
as well.

And to top it off, this on a system that already has one of the best
automatic software installation systems I've ever seen.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
+1 713 274 5180.   'U`
peter@ferranti.com