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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