Re: man missing ?
At 11:46 AM 1/27/1999 -0500, Paul McDermott wrote:
>hello, I do sympathize with lack of knowledge at installation time. We
>were all there at one time or another. (including myself, I have had to
>reinstall more then one do to a lack of understanding of linux and the
>operating system. I would hate to see the boot disks reach 10 disks but I
>can assume that we will be there in the near future. One of the last
>steps of the installation is to use a number of different aptions to get
>more packages dselect, dpkg, apt-get and others that i am forgetting. It
>maybe prudent to search the debian home page to find out what to do after
>you got the base system up and running.
<snip>
Recently I downloaded the 5 or 6 floppy images and installed potato on a
separate drive on my Win95 (yech!) machine. Got the base installed just
fine, and then was offered the choices between Home machine/Scientific
Workstation/Network Administration Box/etc, etc. Continuing on would have
gotten me the man reader, but alas, my modem wouldn't work, so I couldn't
download any further packages. I can zcat the doc files, but because
there's garbage in the output of that (ctrl characters, etc), it's not easy
to read. As a result I've been rebooting into Win95, connecting to the web,
doing research, rebooting into Linux, making config changes, failing,
rebooting into Win95, etc etc. It would be a lot easier if I just had the
man reader to read the ppp/modem/etc documentation. Having an optional
install floppy with the man reader (not necessarily a bunch of
non-essential man PAGES) would have been well-worth it to me. Since the
floppy would presumable be optional, it wouldn't have to be downloaded by
those who feel comfortable with what they are doing.
An option install floppy with a man reader sounds like a good compromise to me.
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