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Date:      Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:53:13 +0000
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.1.7 Installation Comments/Problems
Message-ID:  <19970314105313.52088@pavilion.net>
In-Reply-To: <19959.858312747@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Thu, Mar 13, 1997 at 08:12:27PM -0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970312220245.157C-100000@Pkrw.tcn.net> <19959.858312747@time.cdrom.com>

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> 
> > Why can't the installation process install a somewhat more sophisticated 
> > X Windows environment.  I would be nice to get to something a little 
> > better looking than tvm and have to try to manual patch together a 
> > desktop. A series of screen snapshots in a setup utility? XDesktopSetup? 
> > Click on the look you like and I'll create the .whatever files and copy 
> > the appropriate window manager, etc. Not part of /stand/sysinstall, just 
> > pointed to from there!
> 
> I've commented about this many times, and every attempt to solicit a
> reasonable set of dotfiles for this (and I'm a UNIX techzoid, so my
> dotfiles are *not* useful to the average Joe) has resulted in a lot of
> discussion but nothing more tangible than that. :-)
> 

You're right.  This average Joe changed them to something more beautiful.
:)

BTW. What files should live in /stand?  A 'make world' doesn't seem to
populate it with anything.  I've got a current /stand that's 2.0.5 old!

Joe
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Josef Karthauser        
Technical Manager       Email: joe@pavilion.net
Pavilion Internet plc.  [Tel: +44 1273 607072  Fax: +44 1273 607073]




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