amit wrote:

>On 5 Nov 1996, Hunter, James M     YORK,IT wrote:
>
>> I think that we should have a nice menu based installer where you have sets
>> in groups so you can say select X apps group and then choose which programs
>> you want, deselect any you don't want anymore and the installer then goes 
off
>> and does it's stuff.
>>
>> The installer that comes with some versions of linux does this sort of thing.

>
>Yes, Red Hat Linux 3.0.3 (and presumably other versions) has this type of
>thing. Under this installer the kernel seems to do a full startup from the
>CD-ROM, mounting it as read-only and launching X before bringing up a
>window asking you which sets you want to install. You do almost everything
>from X.
>
>I would really like to see something like this but I guess it's a lot of
>work.

To do a terminal based proggy is quite easy, doing it in X will be more about
coding the interface. If you use a nice design tool then you could get 
something
working fairly quickly.

Just out of interest - what X toolkits are avaliable under RiscBSD for 
designing
interfaces. I've only used XDesigner which I think only works with motif and I
can't afford the licence for that (poor student and the like).

Thanks

James