On 9/18/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Gaffney</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:agaffney@gentoo.org">agaffney@gentoo.org</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
This is something that's been in the back of my mind for a while, but I haven't<br>really come up with any good solutions for.<br><br>With the release of the installer, we will be getting a lot of users who have<br>never done a manual install and haven't/won't read the handbook. This is
<br>obviously not desirable due to the increased amount of dumb questions that will<br>flood #gentoo and the gentoo-user ML.<br><br>My idea was for a &quot;quiz&quot; from the handbook before the user is allowed to use the
<br>installer. This would force them to atleast skim the handbook before using the<br>installer. This idea has been met with a lot of resistance by other developers,<br>even though I had a lot of support for it about 6-8 months back.
<br><br>Do anyone else have a better idea?<br><br></blockquote></div><br>Hmm...
I'm not sure I know what you are saying about the impending flood of
noobs but I don't quite agree with the quiz. Perhaps we should have a
required reading similar to a license agreement that explains the fact
Gentoo isn't an easy distro for those new to Linux that you have to
read to use the installer. I'm not sure that there is really a good
answer to this question. <br>
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-Mike<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>________________________________<br>Michael E. Crute<br>Software Developer<br>SoftGroup Development Corporation<br><br>Linux, because reboots are for installing hardware.<br>&quot;In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?&quot;