Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net> writes:
> On 09-Mar-99 Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no spoke unto us all:
> #   o The current sysinst is IMHO way too insistent on manual
> #     interaction during the installation.  Requiring a keystroke for
> #     each "user-visible" command that is executed is, um... "highly
> #     undesirable".
> 
> I found this useful at first while debugging sysinst.. but I can see your point
> now..  Perhaps an alarm function that continues after 5 seconds.  My problem is
> the classic "newfs blows up, and then scrolls right off the screen and you
> never get a chance to see it".

If something blows up, it will have a non-zero exit code, and you can
stop then.

Perry