Suntan Special version 0.60
Suntan Special for Warp Server for e-business Convenience Pack (ACP) edition
Suntan Special can install applications from the CD, or it can copy the setup programs to a directory on the hard drive and install them from there. If you intend to set up several computers, or several boot partitions on one computer, installing to the hard drive can save time and trouble.
Suntan Special will set up two source directories by default. One will be on the CD-ROM or hard drive, depending on your installation. The other, the bonusDir, will be under the Suntan directory, and it will have only those few applications that must be available to run Suntan Special. The second directory is there to support installing from a network shared drive, with the knowledge that it make take some time for the first directory to become available. You may change the bonus directory to any location that will be available right after booting.
A third source directory, the setupDir, can be set up to hold downloaded applications. This directory should be placed ahead of the CD-ROM or shared hard drive, so that the newly downloaded applications will be seen instead of the existing ones on the CD-ROM or hard drive.
You may have as many source directories as you want. The sourceDir setting controls the source directories used. Separate each source directory by a semicolon.
When installing Suntan Special, if you choose to copy all applications to the hard drive, you are setting up a software repository. You can include any applications that you install, even if they are not included in Suntan Special.
A software repository is where you keep all of the setup programs for the software that you use. One benefit of using Suntan Special is to make it easy to reinstall all of the software you use on a new computer or a new bootable partition.
You will choose a directory for your Software Repository. The directory should be on a drive with sufficient space for the software you use. When you install Suntan Special to the software repository, the contents of the CD-ROM will be copied to that directory.
For the computer hosting the repository, this is the installation of Suntan Special it will use to install applications. For other computers, run the install program in the root of the Software Repository directory. The install program will install Suntan Special on the other computer configured to install applications from the Software Repository.
Each computer will run Suntan Special with the SourceDir setting configured to include the shared directory of the Software Repository. Suntan Special sets up the bonusDir setting configured to be a local directory, so Suntan Special can have some applications available between the time the computer starts and the time the network becomes available.