From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jun 21 15:31:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from gargoyle.apana.org.au (gargoyle-xl0.apana.org.au [210.215.3.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D6D237B69B; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 15:31:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by gargoyle.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA16204; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:31:31 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "ROADRUNNER" via SMTP by gargoyle.apana.org.au, id smtpds16199; Thu Jun 22 08:31:20 2000 Message-ID: <001f01bfdbd0$a8d512c0$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> From: "Doug Young" To: "Christoph Sold" , "Nik Clayton" Cc: References: <37B38B12.A1E9D43C@gargoyle.apana.org.au> <20000620194349.A418@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <3950F5E7.33134061@i-clue.de> Subject: Re: Newbie Docs Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:32:57 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thats ancient history :) ..... I decided ages ago that the best way to get intelligible docs was to write them myself, so hence the "Pedantic FreeBSD" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christoph Sold" To: "Nik Clayton" Cc: "Doug Young" ; Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 3:05 AM Subject: Re: Newbie Docs > > > Nik Clayton wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 01:03:49PM +1000, Doug Young wrote: > > > One thing I would like to see in the newbie documentation area is really > > > detailed step by step info on making installation floppies. [snip] > > > > Could you take a look at section 2.2.1.1 of the Handbook, titled > > "Creating the Boot Floppies", and let me know what you think of that? > > > > You should find it at > > > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/install-guide.html > > > > If those instructions are not sufficiently clear, could you explain the > > problems you're having, so that we can make them clearer. > > Make it more clear standard DOS/Win procedures cannot be used, just like.. > > 2.2.1.1. Creating the Boot Floppies > > First, you have to create two BSD format boot floppies. Those floppies cannot > be created using standard DOS or windows tools. For more information, please > read the installation boot image information. > > To create the boot floppies... > > - Download both image files from the floppies directory of the FreeBSD FTP site > or your local mirror. Beware: Some versions of Netscape wreak havoc on those > images. [Explain how to get the images without ascii translation, or > auto-expansion through tools like netzip.] > > > > Just my $.05 > -Christoph Sold > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message