Re: Future of Debian uncertain?
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:08:30AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:44:33PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> > > > Maybe reportbug should be mentioned in /etc/motd?
> > >
> > > We don't mention anything really helpful in the motd (#175687) or with the
> > > installation process in general (#175686, and another bug I may not have
> > > filed formally, about how there's no way to view the installation manual
> > > from within the installation system, like you can do on FreeBSD).
> >
> > The motd is not shown to the people that need it most anyway: those with a
> > kdm or gdm graphical setup.
>
> Presuming they actually got as far as having a properly set up kdm or gdm. :)
^^^^^^^^
Who ever can set up kdm or gdm *properly*, should know better :-)
Problem is newbie people do not have easy means to configure system with
good pointer to the canonical documents such as "Installmanual" (Or over
look them).
Seriously, install floppy/CDs first screen may be good place to put key
information such as this together with /etc/motd and the start of
Installmanual. (Was pointer to installmanual web site on install
floppy/CDs?)
Osamu
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