Re: [Sheflug] LINUX on a P75, 16 Mb ram, 814 Mb HD, No CDROM,

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Al" == Al Hudson <eah106 [at] york.ac.uk> writes:

    Al> On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

    Al> Most distros give you that, but it's much easier for the
    Al> installer to set things up for you. Having a special button to
    Al> do the job is usually much more reassuring....

    >> Speaking for yourself?
    >> Surely NOT.  :^)

    Al> 'Fraid so ;) Why should I have to go to all the trouble
    Al> setting up a ppp link? I can't remember how it's done!! I get
    Al> halfway there, yep, things going great, everything working and
    Al> then I miss a step and

    Al> 0}5}7}2}34}f}SDf}d}DFg}} arse }t}Ert}sD}F}T }Rt }} damn
    Al> }sdf}}Er}}4}Ert}Y}T}YRty}^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C I've forgotton to
    Al> attach it to something... 

    Al> Guess I'm just lazy ;)

hudson received SIGABRT at 0x8777cef3 (core dumped)

ASSERT failed:
hudson.c, 93:  ASSERT (distro.convenience != distro.reassurance);

Please report this bug to sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz.

# The point is, newbies see the button, think "somebody planned for
# "this," and are reassured.  I see the button and think "oh fsck, I
# probably won't be able to fix it without removing the package and
# installing in /opt/local."  Voice of experience....  ;-)

# Fact is, I've seen far more bugs in installers before you get to the
# stage where a shell is available, often before you've even set up
# access to the distro archive, than after.  Shell access ought to be
# the first thing an installer sets up.

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