From owner-freebsd-doc Tue May 15 18:54:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from salesforce.com (nat-63-150-46-70.salesforce.com [63.150.46.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D89137B424; Tue, 15 May 2001 18:54:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ggong@cal.alumni.berkeley.edu) Received: from ggongws (ggong-ws.internal.salesforce.com [10.0.15.25]) by salesforce.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id f4G1s6J46024; Tue, 15 May 2001 18:54:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ggong@cal.alumni.berkeley.edu) Message-ID: <010901c0ddab$17c95330$190f000a@ggongws> From: "Gilbert Gong" To: "Randy Pratt" , "Nik Clayton" Cc: References: <01051513051703.00373@k6-2.weeble.com> Subject: Re: (was) I'm leaving, now something like "anti official docs rant" :) Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 18:54:06 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Perhaps a link to this can be put into the handbook, ie: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/install.html or thereabouts, saying something like: "For more detailed instructions oriented towards users new to unix and/or FreeBSD, see " ? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy Pratt" To: "Nik Clayton" Cc: ; "Doug Young" ; "Murray Stokely" ; "Jim Mock" Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 10:05 AM Subject: Re: (was) I'm leaving, now something like "anti official docs rant" :) > There is now a 4.3 version of my "Install Preview" now posted at: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~rpratt/43/index.html > > There is a series of these dating back to the 2.x release and have been > linked from the http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ page for quite some time. > > I've also created a version for the 4.3 that uses png captures of the html > tables for purposes of conversion to sgml. These are available at: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~rpratt/newprev/ > > and in tarball from: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~rpratt/newprev/4.3install.tar > > I've very grateful to Murray for getting the ball rolling for conversion to > sgml. It'll make it easier for others to contribute improvements and help > keep things up to date. Learning the doc project ropes is the next task on my > list. > > I gather from some of the threads I've read on the lists that people don't > know these exist. Once the documents are reviewed and committed, perhaps we > should consider some additional links to them. > > Randy > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message