From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 26 09:13:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB47116A590; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:13:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gamera.svk.isite.net (mail.isite.net [205.217.158.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 876B943D5A; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:13:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jrhett@isite.net) Received: from anubis.svk.isite.net (anubis.svk.isite.net [205.217.158.5]) by gamera.svk.isite.net (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i3QGD0qa012610 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:13:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anubis.svk.isite.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i3QGCx0G003451; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:12:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jrhett@localhost)i3QGCxWr003450; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:12:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:12:59 -0700 From: Joe Rhett To: Marc Fonvieille Message-ID: <20040426161259.GA2726@isite.net> Mail-Followup-To: Marc Fonvieille , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040423193700.GA5329@isite.net> <20040423203646.GA35640@abigail.blackend.org> <20040424031048.GA9858@isite.net> <20040424104400.GA76752@abigail.blackend.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040424104400.GA76752@abigail.blackend.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Organization: Isite Services, Inc. cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Items missing from the handbook and/or FAQs. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 16:13:00 -0000 > > Naturally, I can browse the freebsd website while I'm partitioning the > > disk... makes sense to me. > > Well I think, and I'm sure I'm not alone in this case, an installation > documentation must be read/printed before installation. > Another thing, sysinstall comes with an help, and you can read it from > sysinstall. For example I let you read /stand/help/partition.hlp If there was a way to read this during the installation, I couldn't figure it out. Maybe I'm dumb, but... > > Now how about the real question I raised, which is integrated > > documentation? An option to see a list of disk types...? > > By default you are given the FreeBSD type, well FreeBSD installation > system aims the installation of FreeBSD, I mean people hardly need to > create DOS, or other filesystem slices during FreeBSD installation. On a laptop it would be nice to create the suspend partition... > > man faith returns information on what it is, with nothing at all about > > how to enable or disable it. > > Well, let's stop this talk... > Anyway I'm waiting for your doc PRs, you could even add a Cc to me. Just out of curiosity, why would it make sense for me to submit PRs? 1. I don't know enough about the submission guidelines and style issues to submit relevant work. Yes, they are posted. And yet I know enough from working on other open source projects that submissions will be tightly controlled by people with unwritten desires. So it'll take me a few back and forths to make submissions that will be accepted, and... 2. There are project leaders for each component here, right? Something that would take me a full working day to figure out, would take them less than 10 minutes. Frankly, this sort of "we'll ignore your complaints but accept your patches" approach is generally just a way to ignore problems. I've dealt with it too many times before to not recognize it. -- Joe Rhett Chief Geek JRhett@Isite.Net Isite Services, Inc.