Re: RFC: Acknowledge important stuff by pressing RET on install time.
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Davide G. M. Salvetti wrote:
> > Currently some package stop at installation time asking the user to
> > press RET to be sure he reads very important stuff.
> >
> > What about mailing that stuff to root, as well as displaying on the
No no no.
> > console _without_ stopping, instead? I assume people not installing a
> > MDA know what they do.
>
> You can't depend on a working mail setup unless the first installation
> has finished.
Exactly. Also, I have seen lots of machines where root's mail is never
read (of course there's a problem there).
There should be an install log. The lack of such for dselect is one of
the (many) frustrations I have with it (i haven't done a debian installation
for about a year but i have not seen a log file yet).
All the commercial unices (that I can remember - solaris, hpux, aix at least)
write messages both to a log file and the console and tell you where to find
the log file after installation.
>
> Add this as todo if the hooks mechanism is implemented.
>
> Regards,
>
> Joey
>
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