On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 23:31:20 -0600 > "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Listmates, >> >> New drive for my laptop so I dedicated it to Arch. Net install with >> 2009.08 went fine (although there really should be a warning when you >> leave install WITHOUT configuring the bootloader). [the /arch/setup >> menu autoadvances when you leave Configure System and if you click >> Done and downarrow anticipating moving to the next item, you can >> easily miss configuring the bootloader (I did ;-)] > > arch is not, was not and will never be a hand-holding distro. > if anyone doesn't pay attention and just skips steps it's that persons > own problem imho. (in fact the interactive installer already > does too much handholding) Slightly off topic for the thread, but I hope the interactive installer doesn't go away. My skills aren't that far along yet. I was however at least smart enough not to think could skip steps ;) -- chris
