Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 13:06:00 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> To: Niclas Zeising <niclas.zeising@gmail.com> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changes and Updates to Installation chapter Message-ID: <45A00F38.10803@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <459FB98E.7060209@gmail.com> References: <459FB98E.7060209@gmail.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig35F4F4D60B9F0C9667BB45F1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If memory serves me right, Niclas Zeising wrote: > This is a list of changes that I think are needed in the Installation=20 > Chapter of the Handbook. It is not a patch to the documentation or=20 > anything, I want to discuss the changes before continuing working with = > doing the actual changes. On a related note: There's an article called "Installation Notes" or some such thing in the release documentation. It is probably older than the installation chapter in the handbook, and was never anywhere near as well-maintained. Two or three years ago, I started working on converting this to a kind of "Quickstart Guide", which would basically cover downloading and creating install media, and the initial bootstrap steps up to the point of the main install menu. It was never finished, although I have some hopes of seeing this work used somehow. (I have neither the time nor knowledge required to finish this properly, alas.) Here's a PDF of what it looked like: http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/doc/quickstart.pdf If there's some good, solid interest in finishing this, I can figure out a reasonable way to put the source files into FreeBSD Perforce or something like that for some other doc types to hack on. I mention this mostly in the hope that there'd be a way for a Quickstart Guide and the Installation Chapter to mesh somehow. Somebody mentioned to me once that maybe the quickstart guide could be a subset of the installation chapter, which is also an idea worth pursuing. Cheers, Bruce. --------------enig35F4F4D60B9F0C9667BB45F1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFoA852MoxcVugUsMRAo+oAKCCVIy0U9IH0d6IAqLuH3c5r1g6LgCgiVyS 5SUgL/d+73xSdv6mcMmsy2o= =2ubv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig35F4F4D60B9F0C9667BB45F1--
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