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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>:
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> Yeah that's a good idea. Perhaps even a current step/next step type thing.
> I'd like to see that, rather than step 4 of 6. It'd be better to see
> something like:
> Current: partition-disks Next: format-disks$/root
> The username and hostname aren't really even necessary in this simple
> install CD.

I like the "Step # of #" as then you have an idea of how far you are  
and how far left to go. The "current" and "next" step names are also  
informative.

> If it's saying "you should be able to reboot now" Then I'd assume all
> the disks are unmounted. If that's done, then you really can reboot
> now. Might mention ejecting the CD, but most people are smart enough
> to realize that.

Agreed. Either say "unmount all system partitions and reboot" or do it  
for them and leave the message as is.

> I mentioned a onetime run script with a README file in /root
> It'd run the first time root logs in. Display that there's a README
> file (or maybe less the README for them, but that's kinda annoying)

I prefer the motd as then they receive the message every time they  
login (as root or not) until they get tired of it and modify. ;) I'd  
hate to login as root, not notice the info (not paying attention),  
reboot, and then wonder, "What next?".

> That's due to cruft building up in our chroot building process. We're
> not cleaning up after ourselves well enough when we're building our
> stable chroots. The stable-basesystem-0.16 tarball is actually missing
> shadow! And it's got the Xen interfaces in there, which shouldn't be
> there as well.

I've only been running `cleanse` on these machines and then emptying  
/var/cache/sorcery and /var/spool/sorcery before generating.

> lessee if horde can generate a valid pgp signature today...

Let me know how that goes! My work blocks IMAPS, so it's HORDE  
interface for me. There is anubis, but HORDE should already take care  
of this for us.

-sandalle

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