more comments and added a TIMEOUT to syslinux config

3 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/iso/README b/iso/README
index 4a20899..0112dd4 100644
--- a/iso/README
+++ b/iso/README
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 Archlinux32 i486 specific stuff
 -------------------------------
 
-* mkarchiso486 deviating quite a lot from the upstream archiso32/archiso way coping
-  with low memory situations better
+* mkarchiso486 is deviating quite a lot from the upstream archiso32/archiso way,
+  trying to cope with low memory situations better
+* is not going to load framebuffer modes, as old machines with old graphic
+  cards usually don't require you to switch to graphic mode and installing
+  the machine in text mode might be the only option
 
 
 
diff --git a/iso/isolinux-i486.cfg b/iso/isolinux-i486.cfg
index eaa48de..0e83d81 100644
--- a/iso/isolinux-i486.cfg
+++ b/iso/isolinux-i486.cfg
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 DEFAULT arch32
+TIMEOUT 5
 
 LABEL arch32
 TEXT HELP
diff --git a/iso/motd b/iso/motd
index bfb91c1..8ae5a3a 100644
--- a/iso/motd
+++ b/iso/motd
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 Archlinux32, i486 ISO for low-memory systems
 
+Enable a network first with for instance 'dhclient'.
+
+Consider to create a swap partition as very first
+action and mount it before calling 'pacstrap'.
+
+The CD is read-only, you may want to copy '/etc/pacman.conf'
+to '/tmp/pacman.conf' and use 'pacstrap -c /tmp/pacman.conf'
+if you have to change settings.
+
 Set 'iommu=off' to regain some memory.
 
 Create und mount a swap partition and mount a /tmp to