* Michael Stone said: > > And, from my experience, I know that most users don't read manuals... :(( > > And the BOFH+RTFM approach doesn't buy Debian new users. > > I think that it's reasonable to assume that people who don't know what > they're doing and won't read manuals fall into the MS-style "reinstall > the system" category. AFAIK, there is no simple, mechanical approach to > repairing an arbitrarily broken system and thus no way to document such > a process. yes, that's unfortunately true. But it is good to show the users that some steps may be taken BY THEM before a reinstall is needed (and the *nix system must be REALLY fubar to require a reinstall). I think it would be possible to create a diagnostic program which, statically linked of course, would produce a report on the system status and suggest some steps. marek
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