Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:11:53 -0700 From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG To: Andrew McKay <andy@openirc.co.uk> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Per-release installation instructions? Message-ID: <200206120011.g5C0Brnv023948@intruder.bmah.org> In-Reply-To: <20020612001247.Y20696-100000@fluoxetine.lan> References: <20020612001247.Y20696-100000@fluoxetine.lan>
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If memory serves me right, Andrew McKay wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > > One potential problem with doing that is that the install chapter is > > kind of image-heavy, which doesn't work too well for documents that > > need to live on the mfsroot floppy. > > Hmmm. You could easily 'ifdef' the images (and references thereto) out > for use on the floppy could you not? Improving the installation > instruction available at install time would be a major bonus. Yes, I think this might be doable. One other thing we need to remember is that "not all the world's an i386". The installation instructions in the release docs are architecture dependent; I had to pull-up a bunch of the alpha material into the Handbook. We need to make sure this still works. murray did a cute thing with the FreeBSD Mall distribution of 4.5, which had the install chapter, plus all the screenshots, on the first CD. Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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