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From: Diane Bruce <db@db.net>
To: James Mansion <james@wgold.demon.co.uk>
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Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, freebsd-small@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: diskless (or rather, readonly)
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On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 08:28:40PM +0100, James Mansion wrote:
> >FreeBSD is a Work In Progress.  When you find missing
> >or broken documentation, please write it up and send-pr(1).  Thanks.
>
...
>
> When I look at the documentation, I need it to help me, not
> trigger a journey of learning that might enable me
> to fix it after I've wasted a lot of time.

You keep lab notes right? It would be nice to see the lab notes.
The lab notes would help others redo the documentation at least
even if you don't have time to do so yourself.
"I tried this, but this is what is really needed."

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