Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 18:54:06 -0700 From: "Gilbert Gong" <ggong@cal.alumni.berkeley.edu> To: "Randy Pratt" <rpratt@ezwv.com>, "Nik Clayton" <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <freebsd-docs@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: (was) I'm leaving, now something like "anti official docs rant" :) Message-ID: <010901c0ddab$17c95330$190f000a@ggongws> References: <01051513051703.00373@k6-2.weeble.com>
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Perhaps a link to this can be put into the handbook, ie: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/install.html or thereabouts, saying something like: "For more detailed instructions oriented towards users new to unix and/or FreeBSD, see <a href blah blah blah>" ? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy Pratt" <rpratt@ezwv.com> To: "Nik Clayton" <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <freebsd-docs@FreeBSD.ORG>; "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>; "Murray Stokely" <murray@osd.bsdi.com>; "Jim Mock" <jim@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 10:05 AM Subject: Re: (was) I'm leaving, now something like "anti official docs rant" :) > There is now a 4.3 version of my "Install Preview" now posted at: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~rpratt/43/index.html > > There is a series of these dating back to the 2.x release and have been > linked from the http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ page for quite some time. > > I've also created a version for the 4.3 that uses png captures of the html > tables for purposes of conversion to sgml. These are available at: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~rpratt/newprev/ > > and in tarball from: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~rpratt/newprev/4.3install.tar > > I've very grateful to Murray for getting the ball rolling for conversion to > sgml. It'll make it easier for others to contribute improvements and help > keep things up to date. Learning the doc project ropes is the next task on my > list. > > I gather from some of the threads I've read on the lists that people don't > know these exist. Once the documents are reviewed and committed, perhaps we > should consider some additional links to them. > > Randy > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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