From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jan 18 09:07:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA19346 for doc-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 09:07:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from nixpbe.pdb.sni.de (mail.sni.de [192.109.2.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA19339 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 09:07:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nerv@localhost) by nixpbe.pdb.sni.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA22673 for doc@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 18:07:04 +0100 Message-Id: <199601181707.SAA22673@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> Subject: Re: Frustrated....doc@freebsd.org To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 96 18:03:14 MET From: Greg Lehey Cc: doc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: ; from "John Fieber" at Jan 18, 96 11:36 am X-Mailer: xmail 2.4 (based on ELM 2.2 PL16) Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > On Wed, 17 Jan 1996 sf@taz.edmonds.ctc.edu wrote: > >> I'm attempting to figure a >> out how to add a new hard drive to my system... > > This is a *big* black hole in our documentation. Compared other popular > operating systems, it is an extremely non-obvious proceedure too. I would > argue that the procedure is broken, but in the meantime it should at least > be documented. Unfortunately, it's not just in the documentation, it's in the procedure as well. > Any takers? I've been meaning to add this stuff to the book, which still hasn't gone to the publishers, and maybe I will. If I do, I'll send you the stuff for inclusion in the handbook, as long as somebody else converts it to SGML. > I formatted a new hard drive once, but I don't think I would be able to > duplicate, much less describe, the experience. Of course not. It's indescribable :-) Greg