From: George P B. <geo...@gm...> - 2006-09-15 16:31:40
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On 9/15/06, Henry Nestler <Hen...@ar...> wrote: > > Is was thinking basically that we get the colinux-daemon to dump it > > out (more or less does now), or like you suggest provide an 'man page' > > in text file that ships with colinux. > > Not a real man page. > > Yes, the dumps where gets from colinux-daemon starts without parameter > should put into the text file. Think, nobody would run this daemon to > get the parameter. > > One text file with a list of all parameters. And a sample to that > parameter. In the same text file the config parameters and one or more > samples. Remove the text file doc/cofs. I think we are in agreement here. We really need a on-stop shop for parameters & samples. I still think that the daemon should dump (an fairly abbreviated) parameters if ran without command or that we should had an typical --help or -h command-line switch. > > Again, I'm not targetting this for this release of coLinux. If we do > > something like this, I feel that if at all possible, we should do a > > free space check that includes this file uncompressed... otherwise we > > are just inviting users to be frustrated when they download coLinux > > run the install and it dies uncompressing because it ran out of disk > > space. > > Hm. This would be complicated. The installer is not known the unpacked > size. Yes... I'm aware of that. Bare minimum if the uncompression fails and the reason for the failure is not enough disk space, the user should be properly informed of that and the install cleaned-up (so as to not leave the users computer in an out of disk space condition) -- George |