From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jul 15 22:02:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA13674 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:02:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from andrsn.Stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA13668; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:02:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (localhost.Stanford.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.Stanford.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA04942; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:00:37 GMT (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:00:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Sue Blake cc: Joseph Koshy , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux-FreeBSD Q&A In-Reply-To: <19980716131332.63574@welearn.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Sue Blake wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 06:42:13PM -0700, Joseph Koshy wrote: > > > > > > (http://freebsd.stanford.edu/FreeBSD/linux.html) > > > > Some answers to your questions with parenthetical comments needing further > > discussion by the list in curly braces "{}". > > > > > > Q: Can I install FreeBSD on the same hard drive as Linux? > > A: Yes. You can install FreeBSD in another primary partition on the hard > > disk. > > > > { You can even arrange for FreeBSD to use Linux's swap partition, > > (there was a discussion on this point on -hackers sometime > > back), but this may be a bit advanced for a introductory howto. } > > There is a good FreeBSD and Linux HOW-TO already, and it goes into some > detail on sharing swap. > > Note that this is part of the Linux Documentation Project. > I think we should avoid using the term HOW-TO for FreeBSD documentation > to avoid confusion. Not only confusion with the location of documents, > but also confusion of the methods and objectives of small documents for > the two documentation projects, in case they differ. There is no > reason why we might not refer people to the LDP as appropriate, and vice > versa, using the two naming schemes in the one breath in the future. > > If we are going to assemble short documents and want to give them a > name, I suggest we think up a better one, real quick. > > > -- > > Regards, > -*Sue*- > My view is that "howto" like "readme" is a generic term. I wouldn't want to make it off-limits to FreeBSD. Annelise To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message