Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:00:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: Joseph Koshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux-FreeBSD Q&A Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980715215818.4917B-100000@andrsn.Stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980716131332.63574@welearn.com.au>
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On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Sue Blake wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 06:42:13PM -0700, Joseph Koshy wrote: > > > > > > (http://freebsd.stanford.edu/FreeBSD/linux.html) > > > > Some answers to your questions with parenthetical comments needing further > > discussion by the list in curly braces "{}". > > > > > > Q: Can I install FreeBSD on the same hard drive as Linux? > > A: Yes. You can install FreeBSD in another primary partition on the hard > > disk. > > > > { You can even arrange for FreeBSD to use Linux's swap partition, > > (there was a discussion on this point on -hackers sometime > > back), but this may be a bit advanced for a introductory howto. } > > There is a good FreeBSD and Linux HOW-TO already, and it goes into some > detail on sharing swap. > > Note that this is part of the Linux Documentation Project. > I think we should avoid using the term HOW-TO for FreeBSD documentation > to avoid confusion. Not only confusion with the location of documents, > but also confusion of the methods and objectives of small documents for > the two documentation projects, in case they differ. There is no > reason why we might not refer people to the LDP as appropriate, and vice > versa, using the two naming schemes in the one breath in the future. > > If we are going to assemble short documents and want to give them a > name, I suggest we think up a better one, real quick. > > > -- > > Regards, > -*Sue*- > My view is that "howto" like "readme" is a generic term. I wouldn't want to make it off-limits to FreeBSD. Annelise To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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