On 9/9/05, Stuart Brorson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As John pointed out in another posting, goal #2 is accomplished > using the install CD. Some points w.r.t. the install CD:
Respect to Stuart for his work, but I have a different idea: I think the installer GUI could be replaced with a Makefile. The sources could be stored uncompressed on the CD. I looked into this once, but configure on one of the packages failed when it was configured outside of the source tree. I don't remember which one it was, but if this could be fixed, a simpler CD distribution could be made, to be used like this: 1) cd ~/some_build_directory 2) PREFIX=/install_prefix make /mnt/cdrom/Makefile install 3) there is no step 3. Another option is to plop some giant statically-linked binaries on the CD. No install necessary, just lots of RAM. Regards, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You think that it is a secret, but it never has been one. - fortune cookie