Tom....if you mean things like Star Office, Worperfect,
VMWare, Acrobat Reader, IglooFTP, IBM-Via Voice, MPEG-TV and
all of the Loki demo's, then sure, nobody'll miss any of
those. :-)
Alan
Tom Brinkman wrote:
>
> I think y'all are attributing some sinister motives here that
> prob'ly aren't deserved. I installed 7.1 from lland.com 2 Cd's
> just a few day's ago. When I was asked for a 3rd CD, I just lied
> and clicked OK anyhow. Install said, 'can't find' the files and went
> online to d/l 'em. When I saw it was just going for
> Nutscrape-128, I cancelled the d/l. Install went on to finnish...
> no problem. Total Install was still 2.6 gigs. I don't believe
> there's that much stuff from 'Power Pack' I could possibly be
> missing ;->
> --
> ~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > Ray wrote:
> >
> > > I think it is a great feature that you can use the same install to install the
> > > powerpack. They are not pushing anythng you can uncheck them real easy...
> > > Added funtionality and people assume the worst. I would love to be able to pick
> > > all of my packages at one time to install
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Silly me, why didn't I think of that.
> >
> > Of course I did just that and then I rechecked the "Applications" selection not
> > knowing that there was another UNSUPPORTED disk thinking that perhaps someone
> > might have simply mislabeled the disk and "Extras" might have been "Applications".
> >
> > If you're going to offer 4 disk's then support ALL of them not just the ones that
> > make you more money by being packaged in a power pack, if you're not going to
> > support this "Extras" disk SAY SO it sure would have saved a lot of "rant mail".
> > This disk was clearly labeled MANDRAKE if it was not one of yours then you need to
> > contact the distributor (www.lsl.com) if it is one of yours then how about
> > supporting it.
> >
> > As it stands I now have NO IDEA what did and did not get installed (thanks), the
> > install gave absolutely no clue what selecting the wrong disk failed to install. I
> > mean come on folks this is not rocket science you came SO close to making it easy
> > then yanked to carpet out from under me.
> >
> > How about next go around if you're going to have multiple disks to install from
> > telling me what disk is required when I select my packages for install. At least
> > I won't need to go through my entire drive trying to find a package that didn't get
> > installed.
> >
> > I've been with Mandrake for quiet some time now and have no intention of leaving
> > but I'm running out of hair to loose trying to figure out something that should
> > have been a no brainer.
> >
> > --
> > Joseph S. Gardner
> > Senior Designer / Technical Support
> > Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Linux is like a wigwam...
> > No windows, no gates.
> > Apache inside
> >
> > Registered linux user #1696600
> > ICQ #63389227
