From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jun 11 16:12:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow057o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6175837B405; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:12:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pcow057o.blueyonder.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Wed, 12 Jun 2002 00:12:21 +0100 Received: from fluoxetine.lan (unverified [80.195.157.172]) by pcow057o.blueyonder.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.9) with ESMTP id ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 00:12:20 +0100 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 00:12:38 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew McKay X-X-Sender: andy@fluoxetine.lan To: Nik Clayton Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Per-release installation instructions? In-Reply-To: <20020611210023.A39690@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Message-ID: <20020611235900.I20696-100000@fluoxetine.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Nik Clayton wrote: > I wonder if it's worth pulling the installation instructions (i.e., > chapter 2 of the Handbook) out in to its own document, and branching it. Yes, I'd say it is. Installation instructions don't change *majorly* per-release but some changing subtleties can be the difference between 'flawless install' and 'window broken by high velocity computer'. > Turns out that he'd looked at the online release notes for 4.5, which > have a link to chapter 2 for installation. And buried in the online > Handbook is a note that the XFree version that's installed is version 4. Which wouldn't happen if there was a branched version of the doc linked from relnotes. Indeed. But... > . . . except that he was doing this research *before* he'd installed > FreeBSD. So there's a chicken and egg situation. ...it doesn't aid the situation where someone is installing fbsd on a second computer from, for example, 4.5 CDs, and reading the online docs. But as that's just a restatement of the current status quo it's not really a 'new' problem caused by such a change. > Thoughts? In other words...it gets my vote because it improves the situation for some users and stays the same for others so overall it would be an improvement. Andy p.s. I have been quiet lately. Life became crazy. I think it should settle down by the end of June so then I WILL have a chance to get some of my promised workload done :) -- Andrew McKay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message