I was working on a simple script to speed-up mint install. It's still work-in-progress. It just extracts the archive and creates a folder in /tmp called install_1-17-MM where MM is the month. It contains the mint/xaaes files but not the loadable modules. That is the tricky part. I would like it to extract just the ones that the user has in their current system. Any that are missing from the archive would then be copied from the current system like unimint.xfs for instance. This might require perl. It would be nice to be able to identify the machine and cpu type too. Copy the file to /home copy a mint daily build to /home and run the script like this: ./mint_install trunk-16122010.tar.bz2 mil60 It does all it's work in /tmp so shouldn't cause any harm. Regards, Peter
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