On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 02:15:16PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > The online help for the installation system is of course quite limited due > to space limitations. However, the help that is available isn't really > enough for new users who are just being exposed to *nix for the first time. > We can't take on the job of *nix education within the installer, but I think > a few k would really be a good investment for new users. I'm willing to > scrounge a few k from other places if need be... > > Let's add a new 'help' command (hard linked to man and info) that just does > > nano-tiny -T15 -v /help.txt why not zcat /help.gz | more ? > My proposed help.txt is attached (it looks best when viewed with the above > command). It's around 6500 bytes uncompressed. We might be able to leave out > some of the help lines and trim a few bytes, probably there are some > commands that new users shouldn't be using anyway. I already left out > commands that would seem to be useful or safe only within scripts. OTOH > maybe having a syntax prompt is helpful even for experienced people, for > infrequently-used system setup commands. This file was compiled from the > commands available in the powerpc installer system, probably there are a few > others needed for i386 etc. we could save space using the above command. reading files in editors is bad practice. > mkofboot initialize an Apple_Bootstrap HFS partition and > transfer the configured yaboot bootloader to it don't call this an HFS partition, its not. when you call it that people expect they should be mounting it, putting macos on it, and all sorts of other evil things. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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