From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 29 8:50:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B94DE37B71C for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:50:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 57954 invoked by uid 100); 29 Mar 2001 16:50:21 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15043.26573.886950.243435@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:50:21 -0600 To: Roger Merritt Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Howto's (Was: Boot Block help!) In-Reply-To: <46491012@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Roger Merritt types: > This diverges from the question under discussion, but where are HOWTO's for > FreeBSD? Do you just use the Linux HOWTO'S, modifying the instructions as > necessary? I found the Linux HOWTO on setting up printers was very helpful > to me, but haven't tried others. Or is there a separate section of HOWTO's > in the FreeBSD documentation that I haven't found (yet). Also, if I write a > HOWTO, to whom should I submit it? I haven't really been able to understand > the FreeBSD Documentation Project page at the web site -- it seems to > require previous knowledge of concepts, organization, history, and personal > relations that I don't have. There's is a "HOWTO" section on the FreeBSD web site, but it doesn't seem to have a lot of entries. Explicit instructions wind up in either the Handbook or the FAQ, depending on the length of the instructions. If you've written a HOWTO, then submit it with the send-pr command. The best form to submit it in is as a diff between existing documentation and a version with your HOWTO, which means you've changed the source to the documentation. New text marked up properly is second best. If you can't deal with the markup (and anyone who can deal with HTML should be able to deal with the markup), submit plain text. That will require a committer to find the time to mark it up, so it will sit in the queue longer. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message