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From: michael AT weiser DOT saale-net DOT de (Michael Weiser)
Subject: Re: CD-based distribution (was Another website....)
16 Aug 1998 06:48:40 -0700 :
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To: Robert DOT Cross AT scottish-newcastle DOT co DOT uk
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Hi Robert,

You wrote:

>o Uses InstallShield, or similar for inital installation. All installation 
>including initial to be
>    *cleanly* undo-able.
I'm not that fan of the InstallShield-Installation. But perhaps we
could use InstallShield to install a minimal cygwin32 and then run
some (text-mode) install-program to choose packages to install?

>o Base system to use Linux-like file system organisation. One root level, with
>    software installed in /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin.
Like Jeff Sturm suggested I would be good to have some standard for
that.

bye

Michael
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