On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hi Larry,
> More information is needed about how you were installing.
> Particularly, did you select any extra repositories in the screen where you
> can?
> There is a known bug/feature that when doing an install from the Everything
> set of DVD's, you cannot select any extra repositories.  That is why there
> is an Install DVD, which doesn't have this bug/feature.

Hi Troy,

If you don't get the compliment in this the first time, PRN :)

Rather than reading the mailing list, which I do wrt to 5.x, I visited
distrowatch.com and found, much to my surprise, the national labs
hawking 6.0 Beta 3 in a press release arguably issued mid afternoon on
last Friday, suggesting that folks download

http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/i386/iso/SL-6-i386-2011-02-11-Everything-DVD1.iso
  ---or---
http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/x86_64/iso/SL-6-x86_64-2011-02-11-Everything-DVD1.iso.

Because I think your and your teams' work is better than what the
Germans say about "warm, sliced bread" (read: of _enormous potential
benefit to the world's economy_), I think you should _consider
re-releasing the press release_ to point to the trouble free URLs and
thus gain more attention and a better review from folks who think they
can press any button without concern about reading mailing lists of
which they are unaware or choose to filter out because of focused
interest on the more mature 5.x.

Again, I'm very glad to see the U. S. Government change from the
"that's classified, you can't use our sqrt routine funded by AEC $s"
stance in the post-Sputnik days to openly sharing your work product
with those who need/choose to have an alternative to RedHat and
CentOS.

kind and best regards/ldv/rural ISP/WISP