Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 15:06:25 -0800 From: Nocturne <dpilgrim@uswest.net> To: Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: The FreeBSD Installation Guide Project [Was: Re: FreeBSD Adovcacy] Message-ID: <37054D71.A05B12B4@uswest.net> References: <Pine.SV4.3.96.990402153139.28286A-100000@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> <37052E56.D243D4F6@thuntek.net> <37053C70.A99BEB29@uswest.net> <370540BF.C67A5442@thuntek.net>
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Donald Wilde wrote: > > <installation Guide> > > Go for it, excellent project idea! Before there was CFBSD, there was > "Installing and Running FreeBSD," approx 3/4" thick. > > After next week, I will have access to the web tree of ./advocacy. We > can give all projects a web home, you just would need to e-mail me the > pages to install. I (and anyone else who volunteers) will have to come up with pages first. Nothing fancy, just a page with the mission statement, contact info and objects/requirements. I'll get started on the pages today. May I use the main pages from the Doc Project site as starting templates? Also, should I provide my own graphics, or will you have a repository of existing graphics I can use? > I'd suggest you take a look at the DOC projects already in progress, > though, and sign yourself up to lurk on the freebsd-doc mailing list. > There's lots already going on and you don't want to step on toes. -doc is on majordomo@freebsd.org, right? As for stepping on toes, I can see how this project might undermine the drive to get the Handbook and FAQs updated and revised, but I think that when it comes to newbies, the more documentation options one has at her/his disposal the better. I know people who've read the Handbook and remain totally lost. Then they read man pages and a 60 Lb. UNIX Manual(tm) and suddenly it makes perfect sense to them. Nonetheless, I'll be sure to be careful, this has to work. -- 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
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