huug wrote: > Today, Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rolf Pedersen wrote:
> >> Felix Miata wrote: > >> The only > >> > mandatory command line items are the command itself and the > >> > <kernel>, [..] version is optional. [..] > >> <kernel> needs to be the output of uname -r when the desired kernel > >> is running. > > Why isn't that what the man page says? > It does, sort of. But the error message you posted was clear: it's > looking for the name of a subdirectory of /lib/modules. To someone who hasn't been running the Linux CLI for several years, the applicable man page and the error message are worthless. A newbie or recent convert is going to get nowhere trying to do a simple thing like make a boot disk, which in windoze is as simple as 'SYS A:'. From among the marginally educated masses, who would think that mkbootdisk would want something from other than /boot? Either the error message should be improved (prepend or append 'usage' info to all displayed error messages), or the man page should be improved (rename <kernel> to <kernelversionnumber>), but preferably both. -- ". . . . in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you . . . ." Matthew 7:12 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
