Matthew Schalit wrote:

> Ok the timeout only happends during the first setup, and after that
> goes away.  That's was my problem.  The first time through, I had no idea
> that setup was going to run, and it sounded very important.  However,
> due to the relatively short timeout, I never got a chance to run
> setup and was left at a login prompt.  I suggest a 30 sec timeout so
> that a new user has time to read that far and decide.

Maybe I'll just take it out.  After all, no one should be skipping that
anyway.

> > > I'll give ya 10 bucks to tell me some more kernel tricks :)
> >
> > Heh heh.
> 
> I was serious :)

There may have been an error message when you loaded (about sysreq)....
if not, then you have lots of OTHER fun kernel tricks :-)

> When I log in I see the motd.  The last part of the motd is this:

Careful...  that's not the motd; that's the usage from acfg and a
message from root's profile.

> >  Use one of them as your second disk to use the menu based
> >   configuration utility, or load the two packages dialog.lrp
> >   and libm.lrp.
> >
> >   usage: acfg -e <pkg> ....
> >          acfg -a       ....
> >          acfg -h       ....
> >          acfg -i       ....
> >          acfg -l       .......
> 
> If you simply add "using apkg" as in:
> 
>    Use one of them as your second disk to use the menu based
>    configuration utility, or load the two packages dialog.lrp
>    and libm.lrp using apkg.

Good idea.

> Then the new user would be faced with both crucial commands
> right there.  I sort of wonder if I'm the only one who got
> a little confused.

Doubt it - you're just the only one who mentioned it.  I figure there's
probably a dozen or so who have the same problem but never said
anything.

> Is there an Oxygen mailing list somewhere?

Probably not enough demand for one; the LRP list is the best place to
go.........

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