Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 10:53:06 -0700 From: Murray Stokely <murray@osd.bsdi.com> To: Jim Mock <jim@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>, 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> In-Reply-To: <20010514121157.A436@guinness.osdn.com>; from jim@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:11:58PM -0400 References: <004901c0dc6a$ef1d1ac0$0300a8c0@oracle> <20010514121157.A436@guinness.osdn.com>
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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
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