Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 10:00:17 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, jim@lust.geekhouse.net, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conspectus for FreeBSD-questions Message-ID: <20001114100017.A1861@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <000f01c04de0$5e5f70a0$0200000a@vladsempire.net>; from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 08:12:39PM -0600 References: <000501c04996$46eaf820$0200000a@vladsempire.net> <20001108104523.A90012@envy.geekhouse.net> <003701c049bc$76e25e80$0200000a@vladsempire.net> <20001108152201.A522@envy.geekhouse.net> <012101c04a18$5ce117e0$0200000a@vladsempire.net> <20001109001032.B2961@envy.geekhouse.net> <00d901c04aac$9dd9c960$0200000a@vladsempire.net> <20001112152459.F1752@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <000f01c04de0$5e5f70a0$0200000a@vladsempire.net>
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On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 08:12:39PM -0600, Josh Paetzel wrote: > What I am thinking is this...a lot of the questions to the questions list > are repeated over and over...for instance, a while back the boot loader was > having trouble finding usb keyboards on some athlon motherboards, so there > were a bunch of "I can't get FreeBSD to install" sort of questions....or > another instance, when 3.4 was out and 4.0 was released there was a bunch of > confusion about what the largest IDE drive each version supported...and so > forth. > > The sorts of things I am thinking of are transitory questions from the > mailing list....permanent sorts of issues should go into the main > FreeBSD-faq, but I think there could be a lot of benefit to having a > questions-faq that was linked right next to the comment that seems to be in > almost every FreeBSD documentation (whether in print or on-line) "send > questions to free-bsd questions." You write it, I'll put it in the CVS repo, and make sure that every > Here's an example taken from the end of the handbook. > > For questions about FreeBSD, e-mail <questions@FreeBSD.org>. links to it. Sound fair? > > > If so I will > > > need to throw some more drives in my FreeBSD box....I don't think I have > the > > > 600 megs free that it takes to build the webpages. > > > > Huh? > > > > The complete www/ CVS repository is 20MB. Checked out, it's less than > 9.6MB. > > I don't know where you got the 600MB figure from. > > > http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/docproj-primer/the-website.html Ah. That's if you include the src/ and doc/ trees. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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