Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:12:59 -0700 From: Joe Rhett <jrhett@isite.net> To: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Items missing from the handbook and/or FAQs. Message-ID: <20040426161259.GA2726@isite.net> In-Reply-To: <20040424104400.GA76752@abigail.blackend.org> References: <20040423193700.GA5329@isite.net> <20040423203646.GA35640@abigail.blackend.org> <20040424031048.GA9858@isite.net> <20040424104400.GA76752@abigail.blackend.org>
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> > 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.
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