On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote:
> I've installed each version of SO and have never had any problems using > the provided 'setup' utility. I really only have 1 minor complaint with > SO5 and thats the fact that it takes up so much disk spack in the users > account. I remember one of the SO developers had hacked a multiuser patch > for the in SO4 called AutoMultiUserSetupForSO40Linux.tar.gz I think. This > patched the /net option if i remember correctly and worked beautifully. > Here are the diffs in size of my SO5 and SO4 installs: > [timberwolf:adren:~$]> du -hs /usr/local/Office40/ > 113M Office40 > [timberwolf:adren:~$]> du -hs ~/StarOffice (this is 4.0) > 12M StarOffice > [timberwolf:adren:~$]> du -hs ~/Office50 > 140M Office50 > [timberwolf:adren:~$]> > > This is a HUGE difference. The multiuser patch was great! 12M for 4.0 to > 140M with 5.0. Does anyone know if there was a multiuser patch for SO5 > aswell? I like having a 12M user dir as opposed to a 140M dir. > You don't need patch, /net option is already there, just use it. In the home directory it uses only 4 MB. Sergey.
