Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 15:40:59 -0800 From: "Mark Hepp" <tarokun@earthlink.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: providing screenshots Message-ID: <002e01c1b28c$7b8e3f50$6404a8c0@prometheus>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hello all, I would like to possibly simplify the process of installations and post the results through screenshots. my idea is this - provide screenshots of the appropriate stages and what I choose that worked for my systems in order to provide a visual walkthrough. I am extremely visual when it comes to learning and after 30 or so attemps i finally succeed in installing what i wanted and got a fully functionning system. I can fully understand that feeling of utter frustration and anger when reading from a book, web, whatever and feeling completely in the dark - only to hours later wipe an entire HDD or blow the install and spend what is usually countless hours of re-installs only to make similar mistakes. The questions- I am assuming the gifs? of the install selection screens are on the cd - yes? Where are they? I know they are in the handbook which if choosen is installed with the os, can I find them anywhere else? Through reading posts, the handbook, bsd sites I found the choices that were nessasary to install say, dhcp a nic or the info pages or the like were not in intuitive places (naturally, my own opinion ;-)) but were in extra packages or something similar. Has anyone else thought along similar lines? I am a newbie but perhaps there would be a way to make a walkthrough for the install impared (like myself), a collection of screenshots for the most crucial points and perhaps a listing of what one would find in a particular offshoot from the main /stand/sysinstall screen. I would like to help and further my own knowledge. Please provide some feedback Thanks, Mark [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello all,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would like to possibly simplify the process of installations and post the results through screenshots. my idea is this - provide screenshots of the appropriate stages and what I choose that worked for my systems in order to provide a visual walkthrough. I am extremely visual when it comes to learning and after 30 or so attemps i finally succeed in installing what i wanted and got a fully functionning system.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I can fully understand that feeling of utter frustration and anger when reading from a book, web, whatever and feeling completely in the dark - only to hours later wipe an entire HDD or blow the install and spend what is usually countless hours of re-installs only to make similar mistakes.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The questions-</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am assuming the gifs? of the install selection screens are on the cd - yes? Where are they? I know they are in the handbook which if choosen is installed with the os, can I find them anywhere else?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Through reading posts, the handbook, bsd sites I found the choices that were nessasary to install say, dhcp a nic or the info pages or the like were not in intuitive places (naturally, my own opinion ;-)) but were in extra packages or something similar.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Has anyone else thought along similar lines? I am a newbie but perhaps there would be a way to make a walkthrough for the install impared (like myself), a collection of screenshots for the most crucial points and perhaps a listing of what one would find in a particular offshoot from the main /stand/sysinstall screen.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would like to help and further my own knowledge. Please provide some feedback</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mark </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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