Re: Another Poor Documentation Rant
OK, let's try this again.
!!!RANTS DO NO GOOD!!!
Patches are fine. Suggestions are welcome, although it's more than a
little bit late for them. Rants do no one any good, and get
short-tempered replies like this one is shaping up to be.
The lack of documentation is a result of no one having time to write
any!
There is no 'zip driver for the installer', it's using the kernel disk
driver. Check linuxppc-dev.
And please get a mail client that wraps lines at some sane length?
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:15:00PM -0500, Aaron Davies wrote:
> I've gotten over hurdle mentioned in my last (almost ingnored) help
> request by copying the install data files to a ZIP disk. This,
> incidentally, is the kind of thing that needs to be on the powermac
> install page in big red text with a lot of <blink> tags: RESCUE DISK
> CANNOT READ HFS+! Also, is anyone planning on updating the file links
> anytime soon? Once I finally figured out how to point the installer
> to rescue.bin, it told me I was missing drivers.tgz. I'm currently
> downloading that file (from a link I had to ask someone for because
> all the posted ones were dead), but I'm probably going to have to
> come back for more. Is the lack of documentation a result of an
> expectation that everyone has LAN hookups and can d/l all the files
> directly from the installer? If so, wake up and smell the coffee.
> Even comp. eng. students like me use modems in the summer! Oh, and
> the install process needs better error recovery. Do you know how
> annoying it is to try several different directories ! and have to do
> the entire kernel install process everytime, picking the volume and
> everything? When it fails to find a file, it should display an error
> message and return to the exact same dialog it was at when you hit
> OK, *not* return the main install menu. One more thing, I get some
> error about cylinders or tracks when accessing my IDE ZIP too, sounds
> like what someone else described with a floppy. It continues fine,
> but you might want to pass that on to whoever wrote the zip drive for
> the installer. </rant>
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