From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Aug 17 1:51:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (pc-62-31-42-140-hy.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.42.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFE6237B408; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 01:51:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f7H8N1R59382; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:23:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:23:01 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: Nik Clayton , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install chapter.sgml Message-ID: <20010817092301.B59279@clan.nothing-going-on.org> References: <200108161609.f7GG9HH21329@freefall.freebsd.org> <200108170411.f7H4BD828408@intruder.bmah.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="v9Ux+11Zm5mwPlX6" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200108170411.f7H4BD828408@intruder.bmah.org>; from bmah@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:11:13PM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --v9Ux+11Zm5mwPlX6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:11:13PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, Nik Clayton wrote: > > nik 2001/08/16 09:09:17 PDT > >=20 > > Modified files: > > en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install chapter.sgml=20 > > Log: > > Rewrite the intro material. Explain what partitions are. Nuke the > > copy that talks about view.exe, makeflp.bat, install.bat, and others, > > because they don't exist any more. >=20 > One concern I have about the intro material (which is quite nice BTW) is > that it is now even i386-centric than the old text. Do you think this > will be a problem? It's not something I'm entirely comfortable with, but I can only write about what I know. At this point we really need someone with an Alpha who can write about the install process, and tell us how much of the process is common between i386 and alpha, > PPS. "All the world has to talk like 'merikans" nitpick: s/disc/disk/. My understanding has always been that hard disks are "disk" (obviously), while floppies, CDs, and DVDs are "disc". Having just looked at this in more detail, I disc-overed () http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=3Dcompact%20disk which has an interesting usage note. You learn something new every day. N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- --v9Ux+11Zm5mwPlX6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjt81GQACgkQk6gHZCw343US+QCdEkiFYn/uWI7mpqEHb1uVxtNe Ra8AmwQoG/wlm0tPKOYWz025/Q/OqBNn =qe6S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --v9Ux+11Zm5mwPlX6-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message