The previous commit shipped the guide AFTER the host was created. Its first two
steps happen at the provider — order the machine, boot the rescue system — and
whoever reads them there has the one-time code already in the clipboard with its
24-hour window running. The instructions were correct and in the wrong place,
which is its own kind of wrong.
Six steps now, not three, and the two provider ones are named rather than
assumed. They are marked "first" so the list does not read as something you can
start at the top of and work down: step 2 is half an hour of waiting, and doing
it inside a running code is exactly the mistake the page should prevent.
All six are visible the whole time, including the done ones and the ones still
to come. A guide that shows only the current step cannot answer "how much is
left", which is the question somebody has while a server they are paying for
sits in a rescue system.
It is on the hosts list too, collapsed. Somebody standing there may not have
ordered the machine yet — and that is step 1. Requiring them to click "add host"
to find out what the procedure is puts the answer behind the action it describes.
One component, two places, so the archive address in the instructions is the same
string the command line will carry. Two copies of that would drift, and the
difference would surface on a server that has already been paid for.
The step-4 command box moved into the guide rather than sitting beside it, so
after creating a host the whole procedure stays on screen. Somebody stuck at
step 5 should not be looking at a page that has become a single box.
1991 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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