Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 00:05:58 +1000 (EST) From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/31374: projects/newbies.html multiple link failures corrected Message-ID: <200110191405.f9JE5wt15925@phoenix.welearn.com.au>
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>Number: 31374
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: projects/newbies.html multiple link failures corrected
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Oct 19 07:10:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Sue Blake
>Release: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
Newbies page on FreeBSD web site is used for a web entry point to FreeBSD.
It has grown several 404 links :-(
Most of them have been checked and corrected here.
>How-To-Repeat:
Ask your grandmother to find her way around from the current web page.
>Fix:
Please check SGML and commit if OK.
--- newbies.sgml.old Fri Oct 19 23:04:05 2001
+++ newbies.sgml Fri Oct 19 23:34:07 2001
@@ -62,20 +62,18 @@
instructions</a> for a previous version are still available before
you begin. That should make the whole process a lot clearer.</p></li>
- <li><p>A number of <a href="../tutorials/index.html">tutorials</a> are available. The
- one <a href="../tutorials/new-users/index.html">For People New to Both
- FreeBSD and Unix</a> is popular with absolute beginners. You don't
- have to know much about anything to enjoy this one. It is also
- available from <a
- href="http://andrsn.stanford.edu/FreeBSD/newuser.html">the
- author's site</a> and can be downloaded in <a
+ <li><p>The short easy tutorial
+ <a href="href="http://andrsn.stanford.edu/FreeBSD/">For
+ People New to Both FreeBSD and Unix</a> is popular with absolute
+ beginners. You don't have to know much about anything to enjoy
+ this one. It can also be downloaded in <a
href="ftp://andrsn.stanford.edu/pub/">postscript or RTF format</a>
for printing.</p></li>
<li><p>The first thing many people need to set up is ppp, and there is
a lot of documentation to help. You might start with at least those
parts of the
- <a href="../tutorials/ppp/index.html">Pedantic PPP Primer</a>
+ <a href="../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/ppp-primer/index.html">Pedantic PPP Primer</a>
that are relevant to your needs, and explore the
<a href="http://www.awfulhak.org/ppp.html">ppp page</a>
for links to the other valuable information and the latest updates.</p></li>
@@ -181,9 +179,7 @@
<p>The X Window System is used with a number of operating systems,
including FreeBSD. The documentation for X can be found at
- <a href="http://www.xfree86.org/">The XFree86 Project, Inc.</a>,
- including the
- <a href="http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/index.html">XFree86 FAQ</a>.
+ <a href="http://www.xfree86.org/">The XFree86 Project, Inc</a>.
Beware, much of this documentation is reference material which is
likely to be difficult for newcomers to digest.</p>
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