On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Colin Wood wrote:

> Nico van Eikema Hommes wrote:
> 
>   <snip>
> 
> > An improvement might be:
> > * with RC_CONFIGURED == YES, boot the usual way;
> > * otherwise, boot with a minimal configuration, in particular without any
> >   network setup, and print a nice warning like "/etc/rc.conf is not yet
> >   configured. Edit this file to enable the functions you want. See
> >   man rc.conf(8) for more information". (it should be 8, shouldn't it?)
> 
> This error message might be a bit more helpful than the current one... :-)

But of course man(1) only works if /usr/share is available.  (Which it
will be if the user is doing a simple, plain vanilla install with a single
Root&Usr partition, but...)  I'd rather vote for including a short text
file in /etc with the relevant instructions.  And those instructions
should include the commands required to set the TERM environment variable
so that vi will work!  :)


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