This is an excellent idea! It's so simple, logging on and being notified
of all the important files to take a look at. No need for fancy dialogs
or scripts and all that nonsense, just tell the user where they should
start after a fresh install.

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 07:34:51PM +0200, Rico -mc- Gloeckner wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 07:16:11PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> OpenBSD uses /etc/motd to announce some Documentation (man first_steps
> or something like that), which explains the first steps which one should
> do after setting up the box.
> 
> Personally, i find this a good way.  Topics to be considered:
>  - How to setup Networking
>  - Pacman.conf et al
>  - pacman -Sy
>  - pacman -S <pkg>
>  - hostname, hosts.conf
>  - adduser
>  - ...
> 
> People might just have installed archlinux on their only computer with
> network connectivity and not printed out the online manual before.  So
> they have the most important doc right at their fingertips (even when
> archlinux.org is down at that moment, i speak from experience from my
> only arch install :-)

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