On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Steve Jeppesen wrote:
obviously Fred your mileage varies, but I've gotten a Suse install down to it takes less than a week for me to get all the "goodies" up and running.
Build your self a check list. Things to save. Things to install. Things to tweak. I've gotten pretty good at it, such that I can now install usually in one pass, without having to go back 5 times for things i forgot. The last big workstation I installed for an engineering firm with Dual monitors, Vmware, cifs shares from the main server mounted automatically, email for the engineer, his Akregator, Address book and his mail copied took 1.5 days, including hunting down dual screen wall paper. hint: http://www.digitalblasphemy.com/freegallery.shtml _____________________________________ John Andersen