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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Please test new devel ISO
  • Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:24:29 -0800

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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