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Date:      Wed, 12 Sep 2001 01:23:24 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Handbook installation chapter for Alpha architecture
Message-ID:  <20010912012324.A4284@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200109102338.f8ANcUG66810@nimitz.packetdesign.com>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:38:30PM -0700
References:  <200109102338.f8ANcUG66810@nimitz.packetdesign.com>

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On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:38:30PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote:

Bruce, 

I'm more than happy to take maintainership of this one, plenty of Alphas here.
But I'm out of cycles this week. I just got home from work (01:15 pm)
so it will need a bit of time,

Wilko

> Some time ago, I observed that the Handbook installation chapter was
> oriented very strongly towards the i386 architecture.  In an effort to
> remedy this situation, what I've done is to bring the Alpha-specific
> parts of the RELNOTESng install document into a form usable in the
> Handbook.  By nik's (very reasonable) request, I've held off on
> committing this, but instead am posting a diff at the end of this
> message.
> 
> (nik is concerned about the impending print deadline for the Handbook.  
> No argument there.  Another reason is that I am not a FreeBSD alpha 
> developer, or even a FreeBSD alpha user.  Definitely this needs a cycle 
> of feedback before it goes in the Handbook "for real".)
> 
> In the best of all possible worlds, someone who's both an alpha and a
> doc person would just grab this diff and fix it up (committing it at
> some suitable time).  Lacking this, I'll try (Copious Free Time (TM)
> permitting) to incorporate feedback from alpha developers/users.
-- 
|   / o / /  _   	Arnhem, The Netherlands    	email: wilko@FreeBSD.org
|/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte	

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