From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Apr 3 18:13:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B94014D9A for ; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 18:13:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpilgrim@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 17187 invoked by alias); 4 Apr 1999 02:11:53 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 17174 invoked by uid 0); 4 Apr 1999 02:11:52 -0000 Received: from fdsl89.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (216.161.80.89) by ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 4 Apr 1999 02:11:52 -0000 Message-ID: <3706CA33.986B5C15@uswest.net> Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 18:10:59 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim Organization: Neatly stacked heaps of digital chaos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Installation Guide Project [Was: Re: FreeBSD Adovcacy] References: <19990403191536.G2142@lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Apr 3, 99 07:15:36 pm <19990404005224.CUBP5707006.mta2-rme@wocker> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan Langille wrote: > Your book is great. I use it. But not everyone can get it. The handbook > is great. Not everyone uses it. I refer to it all the time from my > documents. Greg's book has a permanent place stacked next to my monitor, along with UNIX Power Tools and my hardware reference manuals, I use almost every day. > Darren, do not waver. Your stuff is needed. I'll help you any way I can. > Whether you choose to go the handbook or whatever, IGP still needed. The > best witness to that fact is the number of request we get on undernet > #freebsd for help with installs. Given all the off-list offers and on-list discussion it's pretty obvious to me that the IGP is sorely needed. I'm going to see to it that the IGP goes through to compile a no-assumptions guide. I've had a very long think about the Handbook and incorporating the IGP with it and come to the conclusion that while parts of the IGP probably could fit very well with the Handbook, rewriting the Handbook is just not what I want to do. -- dpilgrim@uswest.net /\ / __ Our lies are merely the gryph@mindless.com / \/OC/URNE truth of another world ICQ: 29880099 Death is not a kill -9, just a DALnet: anim0s make world and shutdown -r now PGPKey available To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message