Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 19:05:59 +0000 From: Lewis Thompson <purple@lewiz.net> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: Bob Johnson <bob89@wb4jcm.org> Subject: Re: Installation - More user friendly Message-ID: <20040308190559.GA11477@lewiz.org> In-Reply-To: <200403081453.i28ErFq09217@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <20040308104301.GB2269@lewiz.org> <200403081453.i28ErFq09217@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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--liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:53:15AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > >=20 > > On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:28:03PM -0500, JJB wrote: > > > Right at the beginning of sysinstall should be warning about what > > > to set PC bios options to, like plugNplay off, power management > > > off, boot time virus check disabled, PCI irq assignments set to > > > auto, OS type set to non-windows, ect. Give then option to cancel > > > sysinstall to set bios. > >=20 > > Or, alternatively, we could just put a URL to the documentation... >=20 > That works if it can read locally, can sysinstall handle html? If it > must go out to the net, can it do that? Probably not at that stage. > Many of us can not afford to have an extra machine around to read > online documentation while doing an install. The install is on the > only machine we have. I was making the point that few people read the documentation /before/ they pop the CD in the drive. If a lot of people (I'm not saying this is you, at all) bothered to do this it really would save them a lot of hassle. As for PnP, IRQ assignments, etc. -- these would /all/ be sorted /before/ the disc was booted from. Your idea is quite nice though -- the Handbook could easily be converted to plaintext and fired up on a virtual terminal. -lewiz. --=20 I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -| msn:purple@lewiz.net | jabber:lewiz@jabber.org | url:www.lewiz.org |- --liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFATMQXItq0KFQv7T8RAixKAJiTYvKk8bAo/e/TqbCbvZhRevXfAJ0f/I9r YXGt6c7SPlQNRhKFTGf41g== =VoUu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --liOOAslEiF7prFVr--
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