From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 17 21:08:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81C8A16A4CE; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 21:08:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E46243D53; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 21:08:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (acs-24-154-239-170.zoominternet.net [24.154.239.170]) (authenticated bits=0) by pittgoth.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7HL8F0l077036 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:08:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:08:50 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes To: "Bruce A. Mah" Message-Id: <20040817170850.7f27608a@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1092767220.864.43.camel@localhost.kitchenlab.org> References: <20040818.002504.07648782.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> <20040817113649.0c60a790@localhost> <1092761125.864.22.camel@localhost.kitchenlab.org> <20040817130822.142f72e5@localhost> <1092767220.864.43.camel@localhost.kitchenlab.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Tom Rhodes cc: Hiroki Sato cc: doc@FreeBSD.org cc: "Bruce A. Mah" Subject: Re: TODO items for 5.3R X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 21:08:18 -0000 On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:27:00 -0700 "Bruce A. Mah" wrote: > On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 10:08, Tom Rhodes wrote: > > > Perhaps I only seen one of the later commercials > > for say, electronic talking battle ship or whatever. > > Someone else (who shall remain nameless, he knows who he is) suggested > that we might have remembered two different commercials. > > ANYWAYS... Haha, quickly change the topic here now huh. :) > > > > > 3. Just enough to get a user to the sysinstall screen. The Handbook > > > can take over from there. One nagging thing at the back of my head was > > > that I'm not sure how first-time users would get to the Handbook. > > > Obviously it's easy if they have net access. > > > > This is something that has been on my mind for ages and I really > > have no clue how to work around it. :( > > I was toying around about a year ago with a way to make a doc CD-ROM > that had renderings of the entire doc tree. Last time I hauled it out a > few months ago, it mostly worked. It's in doc/release. Not sure if > this is interesting or useful. The only problem with this is that OpenBoot needs to be explicitly informed about a bootable disc. Of course, that doesn't stop companies like BSDMall for example, from shipping a little card for this architecture. -- Tom Rhodes