From owner-freebsd-doc Mon May 14 10:53:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4C1637B43E; Mon, 14 May 2001 10:53:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from murray@meow.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from murray@localhost) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f4EHr6J37053; Mon, 14 May 2001 10:53:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from murray) Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 10:53:06 -0700 From: Murray Stokely To: Jim Mock Cc: Doug Young , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (was) I'm leaving, now something like "anti official docs rant" :) Message-ID: <20010514105306.C35997@meow.osd.bsdi.com> References: <004901c0dc6a$ef1d1ac0$0300a8c0@oracle> <20010514121157.A436@guinness.osdn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010514121157.A436@guinness.osdn.com>; from jim@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:11:58PM -0400 X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/0E451F7D X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E2CA 411D DD44 53FD BB4B 3CB5 B4D7 10A2 0E45 1F7D Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:11:58PM -0400, Jim Mock wrote: > This once again brings up the topic of a "New Users Handbook". I > started work on this last year at USENIX (almost a year ago now), but > due to a lack of general interest and a lack of time on my part, I > haven't touched it since (as a matter of fact, I'm not sure if I even > still have it). If you're wondering what I'm talking about, take a look > at the -doc mailing list archives from June-July of last year. Randy Pratt's Install Preview document looks interesting for new users. He's got tens of screenshots of the boot process and sysinstall to complement a step-by-step installation walk through. After all the 45+ minute calls I've witnessed here at BSDi where some unfortunate tech has to walk someone through sysinstall, I can definitely see where this document could be useful. His original HTML version is linked from the tutorials section of the web site, and I've got him started on a conversion to DocBook so we can import it to the tree : http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/install/article.html (apologies, I should have built this with html-split) http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/install/article.sgml The conversion to DocBook is only about half done. - Murray To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message