From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Aug 12 19:59:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32FFE14C1C for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:59:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA06581 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 13:09:11 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from bryden.apana.org.au(203.3.126.129), claiming to be "gargoyle.apana.org.au" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdwP6579; Fri Aug 13 13:09:03 1999 Message-ID: <37B38B12.A1E9D43C@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 13:03:49 +1000 From: Doug Young X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Newbie Docs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Its encouraging to see that at least one of the non-commercial *nix groups has finally realized the MAN's & HOWTO's are virtually useless for non experts .... I never could understand why major companies like Microsoft and Sun can provide intelligible manuals, but the linux stuff is apparently written to be as complicated as humanly possible I don't know much at all about *nix, having been on the other side of the fence for years ..... but would be willing to help with any newbie docs I can One thing I would like to see in the newbie documentation area is really detailed step by step info on making installation floppies. I've never been able to do an installation from floppies yet although it works from CD no problem..... I follow what I think the instructions mean about copying the files ..... but apparently I'm doing something wrong because the system keeps telling me it can't find the files To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message