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docs: say the installer opens a full screen
The README, the installer steps, the choice of what to install and platform detection still described the line prompts as what a terminal shows. They now name the full-screen interface first, with --plain for the questions, and say that no default folder is taken where detection was refused.
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@@ -197,8 +197,10 @@ file list is downloaded once and handed to each run.
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always come from one commit.
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3. Prints the file count and total size, then a safety notice counting the
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entries the collection cannot serve, how many of those the platform marks
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required, and why. At a terminal, it then offers to install everything or
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to choose systems, cores and regions (see below).
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required, and why. At a terminal, the
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[full-screen interface](#the-full-screen-interface) then offers to install
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everything or to choose systems, cores and regions, and `--plain` asks the
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same as questions (see below).
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4. Hashes what is already in the destination and reports how many entries are
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present, verified, or present with the wrong contents.
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5. Copies from this machine what it already holds: a file misplaced in the
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@@ -551,7 +553,10 @@ counts them (`3 fixed from copies already in the BIOS folder`).
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## Choosing what to install
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By default the installer fetches everything the platform runs. At a terminal,
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after detection, it asks:
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the plan screen of the [full-screen interface](#the-full-screen-interface)
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offers **Install**, **Choose systems** and **Options**. With `--plain`, or where
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the full screen cannot open (a terminal smaller than 40x12, `TERM=dumb`), the
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same choice comes as questions after detection:
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```
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RetroArch: 8069 files, 6.5 GB.
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@@ -905,10 +910,13 @@ forced `--platform minui` stops and asks for the card's root as `--dest`, and a
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card (its `Bios/`) is refused with the root to name instead. On Android a forced `--platform retroarch` falls back to
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`<shared storage>/RetroArch/system` instead, a home directory there belonging
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to Termux rather than to the frontend. Pass `--dest` to say where instead of
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relying on that.
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relying on that. When detection met a folder this user cannot open, under the
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home folder or above the default, no default is taken: the frontend's own
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configuration there may name another folder, so the run asks for `--dest`.
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With nothing detected, the installer lists the platforms and asks. With several
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detected, it asks which one. Both prompts need a terminal: piped into a script
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With nothing detected, the setup screen lists the platforms to choose from,
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and `--plain` gives the same list numbered. With several detected, the setup
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screen lists each one, and `--plain` asks which. Both need a terminal: piped into a script
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with no platform to install for, it prints the manual invocation, in the form
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the run was started with (the one-line command for a one-liner user), and
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exits 1.
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